Originally Posted By: grampi
Wow! I wish I could drastically increase my pay simply by not being able to perform as well as I normally do. How many businesses are there where they're always guaranteed to make money no matter what, other than in the oil undustry?
Yes there is. Look at the banks. They have received almost $30 trillion behind the scenes in the last 2 years in taxpayer funded guarantees for their gambling habit and blatant handouts such as the $5 trillion they got a couple of years ago and another $7 trillion guaranteed at the beginning of 2011 so they can continue to do what they have always done.
"Big oil" is not even on the radar when you consider that as well as the raiding of the Social Security trust fund and the mismanagement of Medicare. They will steal all the pensions and the 401K's next. Just watch.
Actually, they already have but they will need to make it look "legal" by passing legislation to do it. The recent "reform bill" for Wall Street that was recently passed was the beginning.
There is nothing but hot air in the pension funds and the 401K's. Chicago's pension fund is $55 billion in the red and CALPERS out in California isn't any better off.
All of this affects the value of the dollar and the price of gas. Nothing is really worth what they say it is. I think we will see $6 to $7 a gallon gas in the not-to-distant future and it will STAY there. I hope I'm wrong though.
Wow! I wish I could drastically increase my pay simply by not being able to perform as well as I normally do. How many businesses are there where they're always guaranteed to make money no matter what, other than in the oil undustry?
Yes there is. Look at the banks. They have received almost $30 trillion behind the scenes in the last 2 years in taxpayer funded guarantees for their gambling habit and blatant handouts such as the $5 trillion they got a couple of years ago and another $7 trillion guaranteed at the beginning of 2011 so they can continue to do what they have always done.
"Big oil" is not even on the radar when you consider that as well as the raiding of the Social Security trust fund and the mismanagement of Medicare. They will steal all the pensions and the 401K's next. Just watch.
Actually, they already have but they will need to make it look "legal" by passing legislation to do it. The recent "reform bill" for Wall Street that was recently passed was the beginning.
There is nothing but hot air in the pension funds and the 401K's. Chicago's pension fund is $55 billion in the red and CALPERS out in California isn't any better off.
All of this affects the value of the dollar and the price of gas. Nothing is really worth what they say it is. I think we will see $6 to $7 a gallon gas in the not-to-distant future and it will STAY there. I hope I'm wrong though.