ABC News reports that the CEO of Exxon is retiring with a 400 million dollar golden parachute on top of yearly compensation that reached 51 million dollars annually in 2005.
By the debased standards of multinational corporations, he earned it, slickly exploiting a volatile global energy market and making Exxon the most profitable company in the history of capitalism to the tune of 36 billion fat ones a year.
These are the people who must be praying each day, hard, long and down on their knees for Bush to drop a few tactical nukes on Iran.
The day after the mushroom clouds blossom and burst, they can all cash in and move their asses to preemo desert property on the Sea of Tranquility.
Meanwhile the rest of us will have to teams of oxen to pull our Hummers along.
Like Humble Elias has said before, its a very serviceable, pretty civilization we've built....whether it can survive Bush, Halliburton, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Exxon and all the rest is another story.
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