Compare and contrast:
HOUSTON – Exxon Mobil Corp. on Friday reported a profit of $45.2 billion for 2008, breaking its own record for a U.S. company, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent from a year ago.
To this:
At least 1.3 million homes and businesses were without power across a wide swath of the country. Utility companies struggled through ice-encrusted debris into Friday morning as they worked to restore power, but warned it may not return until Saturday at the earliest. It could take until mid-February for some to come back online.
At least we have our priorities straight...
4 comments:
Utterly sad. Being without power during the cold season is rough, not to mention during such an economic roller coaster where people are losing jobs and reading news that Exxon breaks another record..
I wonder if we could get Exxon Mobil on war profiteering....
I hope no one assumes Houstonians are getting any substantial share of that money...
I worked as a contractor in the awl bidness in the early 1990s. Even back then, they were laying off employees left and right, offshoring their IT work to cheaper sources in the Pacific Rim, and generally making sure that not just Americans in general but Texans in particular were getting the shaft. (I guess you could call it the crankshaft.) So please don't assume we as individual Texans are getting rich from ExxonMobil's enhanced profitability.
Hell, no, Steve. There's no presumption that anyone but the head honchos would get any of that money. They don't let anything trickle down anywhere for anybody.
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