Mule
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The "free market" is not free when it is gamed.. When massive amounts of money create artificial shortages, when refineries are shut down for maintaince but really to create a financial opportunity it is not a free market.
Tillerson (CEO-Exxon Mobile) was ask in a Senate Committee meeting (he was flanked by 4 other oil CEO's) why the USA should continue to give he and his henchman 4 BILLION in taxpayer dollars every year insofar as they are (were) experiencing unprecedented profits. His arrogant answer was, "I control a lot of money, I do not have to spend it I the USA, we need that taxpayer money."
Now I read that as treasonist threat against the people and the government of the USA. Within a few days the FBI swat team should have knocked down the gate to his personal compound, network cameras rolling, and dragged him out of bed, in his boxers for the world to see what happens when you threaten our country. We would do this to a low level non violent drug dealer but not to a fat cat that has the nerve to threaten to undermine our economy. I could care less if he would have been convicted of treason, though it would have been humbling, I just would have liked to have seen him do the perp walk and to know he went through the humiliation of being checked into the system. But of course we have 2 systems of Justice in this country, one for the rich and powerful and another for everyone else. Just for the record, 2x Vietnam Vet here, reasonably successful, raised 2 very successful kids and have always played by the rules. This type of stuff and where our country is disgust me....
Tillerson (CEO-Exxon Mobile) was ask in a Senate Committee meeting (he was flanked by 4 other oil CEO's) why the USA should continue to give he and his henchman 4 BILLION in taxpayer dollars every year insofar as they are (were) experiencing unprecedented profits. His arrogant answer was, "I control a lot of money, I do not have to spend it I the USA, we need that taxpayer money."
Now I read that as treasonist threat against the people and the government of the USA. Within a few days the FBI swat team should have knocked down the gate to his personal compound, network cameras rolling, and dragged him out of bed, in his boxers for the world to see what happens when you threaten our country. We would do this to a low level non violent drug dealer but not to a fat cat that has the nerve to threaten to undermine our economy. I could care less if he would have been convicted of treason, though it would have been humbling, I just would have liked to have seen him do the perp walk and to know he went through the humiliation of being checked into the system. But of course we have 2 systems of Justice in this country, one for the rich and powerful and another for everyone else. Just for the record, 2x Vietnam Vet here, reasonably successful, raised 2 very successful kids and have always played by the rules. This type of stuff and where our country is disgust me....
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