Had the bosses realized that they were in the transportation business, rather than the railroad business, they could have moved into trucking and air transport, rather than letting other companies dominate.
The Osborne-Bernstein deal was like two mafia bosses carving up Apulia.
The BBC's 108 highest-paid bosses – including those on salaries of £150,000 or more – reduced the total amount of expenses they claimed in the first three quarters of this financial year by 14.1% compared with the equivalent period in 2009/10.
When Davis asked him about exploitative bosses and slum landlords, Cameron claimed to be infuriated.
Moyles has always annoyed those who didn't listen to him, but despite controversies such as his pay dispute with BBC bosses, his audience has largely seem unphased.
Not only was Nike a leader in sending production overseas – making more than 90% of its footwear in Asia – but for years, its overseas factories faced revelations about low wages, long hours, dangerous chemicals and bullying bosses.
Cameron will say: "Professionals who fail to protect children will be held properly accountable and council bosses who preside over such catastrophic failure will not see rewards for that failure".
Of course he has to complain from time to time to convince his bosses that he is on the case – and he may sometimes be justified (though this particular case does not seem the right one to have fought).
Yet Thursday's command paper was short on specifics of where the billions will be saved, with Greening saying that the detail of how cuts can be achieved would be left to the industry's own bosses to decide via the Rail Delivery Group.
"You can never tell whether they are trying to read the mind of their bosses in advance or whether they have been told what to do," he said.
Indeed, in a survey last year undertaken by the Employment Law Advisory Services, more than 50% of bosses admitted that they take into account the chances of a new member of staff falling pregnant before employing them, while as many as 76% said that they would not take on a new recruit if they knew they were going to fall pregnant within six months of starting.
