After reading what I am about to tell you, there will be no doubt in your mind that this economy is strong as an ox and we’re barrelling straight into to peace & prosperity.
Here it is….. drum roll please…..
Exxon Mobil reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, THE BIGGEST QUARTERLY PROFIT EVER BY ANY U.S. CORPORATION.
wooo-hoooo!!! crack open the champagne!!!
Revenue rose a whopping 40% in year over year comparisons.
In a THREE MONTH PERIOD they made a PROFIT of ELEVEN POINT SIX EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS.
Are you as excited as I am? Just think of the bonuses that will be doled out to the executives. I’m getting goose-bumps thinking about all the research & development they will be doing to get gas prices back down.
You think this guy isn’t happy as a pig in slop….
EXXON CEO Lee Raymond
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EXXON CEO Lee Raymond
Seriously though, this reeks of corporate greed and opportunistic price-gouging. Its a stinking soup with ingredients that include big (giant) corporations, an oil-man presidency, war in the Middle East, a shady vice-president, and a whole slew of other factors that just scream “BEND OVER PEOPLE, THIS IS GOING TO BE GOOD FOR YOU, WE PROMISE”.
This magic act is getting old. The old misdirection ploy is making a lot of folks rich and a hell of a lot more dead. Here’s what they tell us….
Look! Look at those evil a)Iraq, b)Iran, c)Muslim, d)fill-in-the-blank terrorists! Well, while your attention is focused on all those dangerous third world threats to your day to day existence in Iowa, we’re gonna just get in bed with the oil companies and weapons manufacturers .
Halliburton CEO 1995-2000
“Halliburton offers a broad array of oilfield technologies and services to upstream oil and gas customers worldwide”
(There’s a shock…how do you think their business is looking?)
