For the rest of your days you must dig a deeper hole

Mother Jones: “It’s BP’s Oil”.

The shoreline is packed with men in hats and gumboots and bright blue or white shirts. Nearly all are African-American, all hired from around New Orleans. They tell me they've been standing in these exact same spots for three days. It's breathtakingly hot. They rake the oil and sand into big piles; other workers collect the piles into big plastic bags, and still other workers take them to a plant where the sand is separated out and sent to a hazardous-waste dump and the oil goes on for processing. Then the tide comes in with more oil and everybody starts all over again. Ten dollars an hour. Twelve hours a day. When I joke with one worker that he should pocket the solid gobs of oil he's digging up to show me how far beneath the sand they go, he stops dead and asks me if BP's still trying to use the oil they all collect. "Aw, I knew it!"

I think Mr. Burns is running BP's operation right now. Also, if you'd like to go to work shoveling oil-sand into plastic bags for BP, you can apply at the Job One office on Canal Street. What they will tell you there is that you will need OSHA Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standards (HAZWOPER) certification if you want to be considered. If you do not have this certification and are interested in learning how to acquire it, Job One will write the words "HAZWOPER" and "google.com" on a slip of paper for you and send you to the nearest library.