Originally posted by SpiritualMadMan:
Unfortunately, the industries self interests seem to only be "bottom line" oriented...
And, not consumer health and safety...
After all if 'we' kill off a few million there's always more where they came from...
We'll just change our names (not our supply) and continue doing business elsewhere...
No, I want some independent third parties oversight thank you very much...
And, Ken, even though I know a lot of the angst against the Oil Industry is only minimally founded in fact...
It still doesn't make their apparent attitudes towards the American Consumer either Ethical or Moral...
It really is an US vs THEM situation...
No American Team working to solve a problem and have everyone survive with money left in their pockets...
The rich get richer and the middle class joins the poor...
NO MATTER HOW HARD WE WORK!
Mike Sr.
The poor's only hope isn't the government it's Christians in the Middle Class...
Destroy the Middle Class and you have either Anarchy or Socialism...
But, one thing you won't have anymore is customers!
Mike Sr.
This is so well said and is naked truth that it screams out from the inner soul and help of the holy spirit. I want to put..."verily, verily, I say unto you in front of it...because people need to be pointed too it ...
The poor's only hope isn't the government it's Christians in the Middle Class...
and KenH your little aversion in attacking me is just that an aversion ....everyone knows your a suck up to Murphy oil ..a polluter no less...You respond not by faith but by fear because you are afraid of losing your job! well have some faith
your whining of hard times then good times is baloney when it comes to big Murphy Oil...most of us here on this board have seen a least one or two or even three jobs by now so spare us the whining.
To believe the market is pristine and pure is pure naivete KenH...you are ignoring and I understand your ignoring the lobbyist,big oil(murphy oil),ceo, sheikhs, OPEC, and incompetent President. You then have a free market that is perverse and polluted with hands in the cookie jar.The middle class takes the hit and more
and more drop out.
but please spare us the whining and claiming the free market and "let the market decide" is free of perversity ..it is not! Capitalism needs high
accountability, very high.
Dwight Eisenhower warned of the perverted military industrial complex...by the way "I like Ike" so what is wrong of warning people of how the system is fixed and perverted and how they in a democracy can demand and then get high
accountability.
quit talking Kenh as if the Oil Companies are innocent and pure they are not! they are part of the fix and they are in collusion with OPEC, Lobbyists, Greedy Politicans, Sheikhs, to gain hyper profits with taxpayer subsides thrown in without them taking barely any risks with multi-billions they now have pocketed.
the fox has been in the hen house far too long.