Corporate Greed
As noted in my post of 6/3/08, Tom Sears is a professor of accounting at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y. Every other week, he writes a column for the Oneonta Daily Star entitled: “On The Right Side.”
Tom Sears wrote: “We can’t expect the oil companies to behave any differently. Their responsibility is to their shareholders, not to you environmentalists.” Sears avoids pointing out that international oil companies lack any responsibility or concern for the American taxpayer and our troops, who have enabled them to loot Iraqi oil.
Bush commandeered our military to be gangsters for capitalism and they’re being used as economic cannon fodder, by the military- industrial complex to ensure outrageous profits for multinational oil corporations. From the very beginning, the mission has been to steal 21 trillion dollars worth of oil from the Iraqi people, under the cover of bringing democracy.
The 21 trillion dollars figured out to be about $70,000 for every American currently alive. That money is going to six international oil companies, four of whom are American. These are the same oil conglomerates that command over $4.25 a gallon for gas in Delhi. How many more brave young Americans will be sent to their death so that these international oil companies can continue to reap unconscionable profits? For every American soldier and Iraqi citizen that have been killed, the oil companies have raked in enormous profits. War profiteers understand, that war has always been a very profitable business. They don’t care about the lives of innocent Iraqis or that war is deadly for our troops.
Bush has insisted that an oil deal must be signed, which allows these six international oil companies to control over 80% of the Iraqi oil fields. The CEO’s of those companies will have complete control over every aspect of the oil for 35 years into the future. Iraq gets to keep 17 oil fields, but even for those fields, operational control is in the hands of the international oil companies.
Corporate greed trumps the environment, nationalism, patriotism and morality.
Tom Sears wrote: “We can’t expect the oil companies to behave any differently. Their responsibility is to their shareholders, not to you environmentalists.” Sears avoids pointing out that international oil companies lack any responsibility or concern for the American taxpayer and our troops, who have enabled them to loot Iraqi oil.
Bush commandeered our military to be gangsters for capitalism and they’re being used as economic cannon fodder, by the military- industrial complex to ensure outrageous profits for multinational oil corporations. From the very beginning, the mission has been to steal 21 trillion dollars worth of oil from the Iraqi people, under the cover of bringing democracy.
The 21 trillion dollars figured out to be about $70,000 for every American currently alive. That money is going to six international oil companies, four of whom are American. These are the same oil conglomerates that command over $4.25 a gallon for gas in Delhi. How many more brave young Americans will be sent to their death so that these international oil companies can continue to reap unconscionable profits? For every American soldier and Iraqi citizen that have been killed, the oil companies have raked in enormous profits. War profiteers understand, that war has always been a very profitable business. They don’t care about the lives of innocent Iraqis or that war is deadly for our troops.
Bush has insisted that an oil deal must be signed, which allows these six international oil companies to control over 80% of the Iraqi oil fields. The CEO’s of those companies will have complete control over every aspect of the oil for 35 years into the future. Iraq gets to keep 17 oil fields, but even for those fields, operational control is in the hands of the international oil companies.
Corporate greed trumps the environment, nationalism, patriotism and morality.
posted by Jim O'Leary | 12:58 AM
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