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You know, bourne... individuals are not oil companies... are you confused or just trying to cloud the issue?
Individuals staff oil companies. And the issue is supposedly excessive executive compensation.
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I love this idea. I mean, the BEST way to achieve energy independence is to tax the hell out of profits made by American companies while barring any oil exploration in our own country, BRILLIANT. Next, let's raise the minimum wage to an uncompetitve global level, spend more on social programs that are demonstrably bankrupting the country, and restrict free trade to cause inflationary economics. IT'S GOT TO WORK!!!


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The oil companies haven't shown any desire to achieve energy independence yet... why should they when they are raking in money hand over fist, bringing the economy to it's knees...

and spacey? What is bankrupting us now more than anything else, is bush's war in Iraq... almost a trillion dollars have been wasted there... for what? to kill a man who wasn't threatening us? that was pretty stupid if you ask me, and even if you didn't, I still think it was stupid to invade Iraq.
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Hello? Birdzeye? Are you there?

Stumped you again. That's two days straight.
got no life, bourne? Some of us push ourselves away from the keyboard from time to time and get out to smell the roses, walk the dog, workout, jog, hike, waterski, skydive...

do you do anything besides forum?
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In yer pathetic dreams. I have a life, y'know, and the only thing that I don't know is how this "gotcha" type question has anything to do with what I've said before.

Must be my religious upbringing. I learned some values, like, it's not morally right to profit on the pain of others, but what would you know about that. And that is my answer. Take it or leave it.

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got no life, bourne? Some of us push ourselves away from the keyboard from time to time and get out to smell the roses, walk the dog, workout, jog, hike, waterski, skydive...

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Absolutely.
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The first person to warn against "merchants" joining together in "cartels" to reduce competition and drive prices upward was Adam Smith, the economist that originated "capitalism."

We absolutely do not have free market capitalism in America. We have government subsidies, tax loopholes, and lease free drilling on public lands. It isn't called capitalism, it is called government prostituting themselves out to billionaire corporations.
what do you expect when the top two in government are ex-oil men? fairness?
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As long as people keep voting for Democrats and Republicans, it's going to be nothing but status quo for the foreseeable future.
What else is there? None of the other parties are large enough to win.
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Chances are that Obama sucks up to more corporations than just that one, Michael.

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Which ones? Got a link? How about McCain? Who is he sucking up to?
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I'd knew you'd bring this up..You know how many places in the US no live by the "Not in my back yard" mentality? Almost every single one of them. There have been refineries proposed.. all denied.

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Individuals staff oil companies. And the issue is supposedly excessive executive compensation.

no the issue is excessive oil company profits... the dems aren't looking to tax the CEOs more, they're looking to tax the oil companies more. There's a difference, unless you're trying to claim that the CEOs ARE the oil companies, all by themselves... which is, of course, ludicrous...

are you an oil company exec?
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