Different day... same inexcusable rape of our world by a small handful of asshats.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/15/news...html?hpt=hp_t1
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BP agrees to pay 4.5 Billion in fines....BP has booked total profits of $43 billion over the course of the subsequent nine quarters.
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43B / 9 = 4.77B profit per quarter
So for polluting the entire gulf in one of the worst cases of ecological recklessness in human history, the company is being fined a grand total of only 3 months of profit... nobody is going to jail... and the message is 'go ahead and fuck around with safety measures all you want because the worst that can happen is you get a fine equal to 3 months of profit.'
When something like this happens, there should be a string of people responsible wearing handcuffs and orange jumpsuits on their way to prison.
