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MartiniMan
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There you go again!
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11/4/2008 12:08:44 PM
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I hope they give every penny to their shareholders.
Exxon provides good paying jobs to over 83,000 employees which generates at least $3 billion in annual income.
In 2007 alone Exxon provided almost $180 million in charitable donations (not counting donations made by their 83,000 employees that were able to do so because of the jobs)
In just the first quarter of 2008 Exxon paid $9.3 billion in taxes and paid over $30 billion in 2007.
In 2007 alone alone Exxon spent $3.8 billion on environmental expenditures (cleanups, pollution control, development of alternative energy sources, etc.).
All police cars, ambulances, church buses and your car are operated by petroleum hydrocarbons produced and refined by evil corporations like Exxon.
How many jobs did all the poor people in this country create, how much in charitable donations, how much in taxes and how much have they spent on the environment? This approach of complaining about "big" business is so intellectually bankrupt that it is hardly worth the 3 minutes it took me to find out what a huge, positive influence Exxon has.
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