Originally Posted by Birdzeye

First, the right wing apologists for the oil industry try to repackage greed as "success." Now that some people are not buying that bull****, they're trying to disparage the condemnation of that greed, er, success, on the basis of fairness. They say life's unfair. True, and history is full of examples of people fighting unfairness. There's nothing wrong with that, or does doing that make one a communist (ooooh, try to intimidate with the play the communist card)?

And just for good measure, throw in some little ditties - without links to back them up, of course - about how oil companies' revenue is in line with other industries and taxing the rich would be bad for the economy.

Sheesh.