Bonuses Given to Execs in Charge During BP Disaster

A continuing shocker ... corporate execs are awarded bonuses for the "best safety year ever," even though eleven lives were lost, countless businesses were ruined and the environment was ravaged.

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Corporations are machines -- designed to make profits. Period. They do not have the capacity to consider human costs, nor health, safety nor welfare. That is the province and indeed the mandate of government. Hello? Government?