Everyone can visualize the Banker with the power suit sitting at his desk made of remote rain forest wood. Big dollar signs fills his eyes while he sips his coffee made with cherries after they were processed through the Toddy Cat’s bowels. He loves the expensive things, because they’re privileged possessions owned by a select few. They make him “Powerful”! People now are starting to view our government in the same light. They want control over the things that run this country, and maybe the world. Again, just like the gluttonous banker I depicted, they don’t want control because they want to better people to make themselves feel good. Control equals money, in return equaling power. The more power the better.
I was at a Houston Texans football game in the fall of 2006 and I was one of the lucky first 20,000 out of 18,000 that actually attended the game and I was given a free T-shirt. Yeah! I got another T-shirt. On the back in huge letters was the word Halliburton. I had never heard of them until now, so I looked them up. Hoover’s Online says that they provide oil and gas field services. They’ve steadily increased in closing stock prices over the last five years. Their net income has risen steadily since 2004. In 2003 they recorded a loss of $979 billion. That might be why they were charging the government $27 million to transport only $82,000 worth of fuel that they purchased in Kuwait. Kuwait’s right next door. Did they take the long way? First of all, why are they buying it from Kuwait? We’re helping Iraq with their civil war and Iraq contains the second most oil reserves in the world behind Saudi Arabia. Is our government not studying geography? Seriously, can’t we make a deal with them to use their oil so we don’t have to pay Vice President Cheney’s old company to give Kuwait’s oil a Limo ride? That oil should get free champagne and chocolate for a $27 million dollar venture across the border. Anyways, instead of greedy bankers, all I can visual now is Cheney swimming in the money pool in Houston next January.
I was at a Houston Texans football game in the fall of 2006 and I was one of the lucky first 20,000 out of 18,000 that actually attended the game and I was given a free T-shirt. Yeah! I got another T-shirt. On the back in huge letters was the word Halliburton. I had never heard of them until now, so I looked them up. Hoover’s Online says that they provide oil and gas field services. They’ve steadily increased in closing stock prices over the last five years. Their net income has risen steadily since 2004. In 2003 they recorded a loss of $979 billion. That might be why they were charging the government $27 million to transport only $82,000 worth of fuel that they purchased in Kuwait. Kuwait’s right next door. Did they take the long way? First of all, why are they buying it from Kuwait? We’re helping Iraq with their civil war and Iraq contains the second most oil reserves in the world behind Saudi Arabia. Is our government not studying geography? Seriously, can’t we make a deal with them to use their oil so we don’t have to pay Vice President Cheney’s old company to give Kuwait’s oil a Limo ride? That oil should get free champagne and chocolate for a $27 million dollar venture across the border. Anyways, instead of greedy bankers, all I can visual now is Cheney swimming in the money pool in Houston next January.
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Aren’t we the cynical one?
Don’t get me wrong, in this day and age everyone is perfectly justified in feeling cynical, paranoid or just plain cranky.
Your way of comparing our government to the untrustworthy and greedy oil baron made smirk, just a little. But I do have one problem.
Where did Cheney come from? All of a sudden his name popped up and something about his old oil company providing limo service to Kuwait. I spent some time staring at my screen blankly until I got the bright idea that maybe Halliburton was Cheney’s old company.
Now maybe that might be common knowledge but in general I’ve stayed away from, and out of, Cheney’s business. That and I don’t like to read depressing news on our government’s corruption status.
It brings out to the cranky, paranoid cynic inside of me.
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