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Originally Posted by roachboy
this is hilarious. tony haywood looses bp more than any ceo in its history, costs british pensioners a very considerable amount and he gets pensioned off with a roughly 10 million pound severance package so he can go live on a fucking yacht.
and you think *this* is a problem?
the problem is the class structure brought into being by neo-liberalism itself, not which faction inside the political oligarchy which oversees it manages the more effective tax scam.
and in this particular glenn beck-style non-issue, kerry's already noted his intention to pay.
and i don't like the guy particularly.
it's time for rational people to ignore american conservatives.
they've lost whatever tenuous grip on reality they ever had.
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I will try to connect the dots.
BP failed, they should pay a price for that failure - potentially going out of business.
Investors should not have invested in BP without knowing and understanding the risk. Investors who assume too much risk should be allowed to fail.
On the other hand oil companies being run properly should be allowed to thrive. Success should not be punished.
Investors who invest in successful companies should be allowed to succeed..
If you try to punish success and those who do things correctly, you get less of it. Or, it moves away, it goes to a place where success can be enjoyed.
Also, if you punish success and bailout failure, you get more failures in your systems. So, when we go after companies doing the right thing or their profits, and protect failure, it does not result in a net benefit to anyone.
Kerry and many liberals embody what is wrong in terms of economic policy, and the hypocrisy of - do as I say, not as I do - is far to obvious to anyone paying attention.