What comes after TRILLION (not the brazilian joke) - Corporate Wealth vs.

[kid a]

Social Poverty

A very FEW people in this country are panicking and quietly building fortresses of wealth in their fear of an end to this common, petroleum way of life.

Bankers (Chase), Media Moguls (FOX, Clear Channel), Pharmaceuticals (Pfizer) and Oil (Exxon) Companies - their profits and worth will soon be in the TRILLIONS and beyond.

Are we the people the best interest of "OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS", or do these mega-billionaire, lobby fat "corporate identities" at the head of the line? Yesterday's SHAME in the House should be a wake-up call to millions of us!

I am being squeezed dry, turned upside down daily and shaken for the last few pennies of my monthly paycheck.

Can I work seventy hours, maybe eighty, a week to get back to a budget which include saving, a new roof, and winter tires? How many more nights will my daughter go to bed without a "goodnight" or a "good morning" so I can work eighty hours a week at my job.

Boot straps? I've been yanking on them since I was sixteen, but they've bee cut off and used as cute ornaments on the gates that keep me out.

[unrepuke]

1. Quadrillion -- What's in YOUR wallet?

[Deja Q]

2. You're lucky to GET jobs.

I always manage to fail those personality profiling tests; some of which bend the existing laws, but I see those laws disappearing too.

Compassionate conservativism my arse.

[annabanana]

3. sadly.. the "millions of us" who should be awakened

by the calls of "shame, shame" will never hear them. The value of our government in the protection of the "American way of life" has been trivialized to the point of near irrelevance.

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[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. So... you don't feel "safer" now. Pity. It's amazing what the

propagation of fear can do to dumb down 50% of the nation.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Wal-Mart is a $300 billion company

It will take them or ExxonMobil at least a generation (or more) to make it to being a trillion dollar company. And, that is their revenues!

Wal-Mart's NET profit last year was less than $10 billion on that much revenue. ExxonMobil's was a record-setting $25 billion.

edited to add: I think Exxon & GE may actually be the companies that are worth the most, with both being less than $400 billion in net worth.

edited to add again: The #1 company in 1985 was ExxonMobil and they had revenues of about $90 billion, so they have tripled in 20 years. If they triple again in 20 years, they'll be close to $1 trillion.