Memo Shows BP Suits Think Of Workers As Expendable "Pigs"

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What has BP come to when their suits in the Executive suites think of their workers as expendable pigs?

Eleven men on BP's Deepwater Horizon rig just lost their lives to criminal negligence.

Stupid, uniformed Libertarians such as Rand Paul shrug it off by saying "Accidents happen." But Deepwater Horizon was no accident. It was simple criminal neglect leading to disaster, i.e. BP officials' shortcuts disregarded equipment failure and required tests, and this led to the biggest rig explosion in history.

This was to be expected. Anyone knowing anything about BP's corporate culture knows this is a corporation which puts profits ahead of safety. And today we pin another turd to the Watchworld's "Dishonor Board" by BP's name as a damning internal BP memo from "The Daily Beast" shows how cold calculating bean counters in the BP executive ranks decided against providing blast proof housing for workers in a BP refinery which blew up in 2005, killing 15 workers and injuring 170 other plant employees and residents of nearby homes.

In fact, BP's sociopathic suits used the allegory of "The Three Little Pigs" to figure out what was more important to them: providing blast resistant housing for workers, or cutting costs (for fatter profits) by simply placing expendable worker-pigs in thin aluminum trailers that a Big Bad Wolf (explosion) could easily blow down.

Above is the memo, and you will want to read the entire story at The Daily Beast titled "BP's Shocking Memo" to get a righteous anger going today. By the way, notice the icons of three "Little Piggy Banks" which some BP suit printed onto the memo, as if to imply doing cheap housing would save money for the mega-corporation. Wasn't that cute?