"This really does not benefit us at all. How it is that people assume that it is a matter of oil, when the oil producing nations are the ones which end up with windfall profits is beyond me."
Err, I would disagree. Look up some oil company sales figures sometime;
Everyone complains about the "evil" walmart, but Exxon had roughly the same total sales and over 3 times (closer to 4x) the profit margin. Chevron had a little more than half walmart's sales, but a profit margin 50% greater. Seems to me people besides just the oil producing nations are reaping windfall profits
Actually since barely half voted at all, and only about half of those who did voted for him it's more accurate to say 3/4 didn't vote for him. As I've noted before, if you could just manage to find a candidate who could pull in half the people who didn't vote, and take just a few percentages (maybe 5%) from each party, you could easily elect a president without touching the core bases of either party.
It would be useful if you used a legitimate source to make your point, and not an "obvious parody"
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070606/105850.s html#comments
By the way, the "obvious parody" isn't my claim, it's the claim made by the actual author who wrote that Whitacre skit during his rebuttal in the comments section of the Techdirt story. Of course the fact that I've seen numerous instances of this story being referenced in Slashdot, Digg, Crooks & Liars, and a few other sites as if it were legitimate suggests what is "obvious" to him must not be quite so obvious to most other people.
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"This really does not benefit us at all. How it is that people assume that it is a matter of oil, when the oil producing nations are the ones which end up with windfall profits is beyond me."
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Err, I would disagree. Look up some oil company sales figures sometime;
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500
Everyone complains about the "evil" walmart, but Exxon had roughly the same total sales and over 3 times (closer to 4x) the profit margin. Chevron had a little more than half walmart's sales, but a profit margin 50% greater. Seems to me people besides just the oil producing nations are reaping windfall profits
Actually since barely half voted at all, and only about half of those who did voted for him it's more accurate to say 3/4 didn't vote for him. As I've noted before, if you could just manage to find a candidate who could pull in half the people who didn't vote, and take just a few percentages (maybe 5%) from each party, you could easily elect a president without touching the core bases of either party.
It would be useful if you used a legitimate source to make your point, and not an "obvious parody" http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070606/105850.s html#comments
By the way, the "obvious parody" isn't my claim, it's the claim made by the actual author who wrote that Whitacre skit during his rebuttal in the comments section of the Techdirt story. Of course the fact that I've seen numerous instances of this story being referenced in Slashdot, Digg, Crooks & Liars, and a few other sites as if it were legitimate suggests what is "obvious" to him must not be quite so obvious to most other people.