Normally, we all look to events for encouragement or emotional uplift that demands that we get up out of our chairs. Not everyone. Some people are motivated 24/7/365 against injustice, denial of human rights or intense need by some member or segment of society. When Haiti happened, for example, or when the monster earthquakes hit [...]
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On Oil Spills and Government Spoils
June 16th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street
This is about our country.We have been through the Second Age of the Moguls and it was worse than the first, if that is possible. In those days, there were no regulations, less than ten percent income tax, often as not ignored, and a country just beginning to feel the environmental weight of massive forests [...]
Tags: big oil·billionaires·BP oil spill·Bush Department of Interior·economic elite·Gale Norton·government royalties·J. Steven Griles·Minerals Management Service corruption·mining companies·offshore drilling·oil lobbyists·payoffs to government officials·payoffs to oil companies·Republican obstruction