Fortune 500 rankings!

[Eastoff]

Oil is doing well. link

 

[PapaG]

Time to attack those greedy bastards and take their money, as well as the shareholders' money!

I started looking for companies that run $1.3 trillion annual deficits without an updated budget, yet claim to be successful, but I couldn't find any on that list.

Must be the CEO?

 

[jlprk]

So you think that corporations should be treated as sovereign nations.

NOW we're hearing honesty from radical Republican thinkers.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

corporations are people

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

The usual suspects.

But what can we say? There will always be large corporations than employ thousands of workers. I mean, someone has to be the biggest. I was surprised there were no insurance companies among those.

 

[Eastoff]

corporations are people

Except when it comes to going to jail. ;]

 

[PapaG]

Except when it comes to going to jail. ;]

Kenneth Lay
Bernie Madoff
Martha Stewart

When was the last time a current politician went to jail for stealing taxpayer money? Duke Cunningham? Hell, Charles Rangel got caught red-handed vacationing on taxpayer dollars, and he is up for re-election, and will probably win.

The biggest crooks have always been in government. If you control the police, you're pretty much untouchable.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Kenneth Lay

he never went to jail did he? i thought he died while on vacation

 

[Eastoff]

Kenneth Lay
Bernie Madoff
Martha Stewart

When was the last time a current politician went to jail for stealing taxpayer money? Duke Cunningham? Hell, Charles Rangel got caught red-handed vacationing on taxpayer dollars, and he is up for re-election, and will probably win.

The biggest crooks have always been in government. If you control the police, you're pretty much untouchable.

those are people, not coporations. Corporations are treated as people except when it comes to that. Hello, can i introduce you to Rob Blagojevich?

 

[blazerboy30]

Those evil corporations. How dare they make a profit while providing millions of jobs. It's even more disheartening to see technology companies on the list.

We really should move back to an economy built on local trade. Some hot items would be hand-carved sticks, goats, hand-made blankets and home-grown vegetables. It would really get the growth engine revving.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

We really should move back to an economy built on local trade. Some hot items would be hand-carved sticks, goats, hand-made blankets and home-grown vegetables. It would really get the growth engine revving.

yes, a blanket made in bangladesh by 6 year olds is such a boon to our economy

and my god yes, whats worse than home grown vegetables? i mean yuck, give me a can of genetically altered processed and preserved corn anyday

 

[PapaG]

he never went to jail did he? i thought he died while on vacation

He died before he was sentenced. He would have done 24 years in the federal pen.

 

[Eastoff]

Some hot items would be hand-carved sticks, goats

why would anyone carve a goat??!

 

[PapaG]

why would anyone carve a goat??!

Goat is a tasty feast in some 3rd-world countries.

 

[speeds]

Edit: never mind

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Goat is a tasty feast in some 3rd-world countries.

LA is a 3rd world country?

 

[Eastoff]

Goat is a tasty feast in some 3rd-world countries.

I had goat here in Oregon, and it was a little stringy, and cooked to be spicey.

 

[blazerboy30]

yes, a blanket made in bangladesh by 6 year olds is such a boon to our economy

and my god yes, whats worse than home grown vegetables? i mean yuck, give me a can of genetically altered processed and preserved corn anyday

We should also get rid of any technological advances due to corporations. I'm sure little mom and pop shops will really push the advancement envelope. Think how wonderful life would be if we replaced healthcare advancements with bead jewelry and flea markets.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

replace all barnes and noble with indian meditation book stores.

 

[Eastoff]

replace all barnes and noble with indian meditation book stores.

I think you mean replace all Kindles with Barnes and Noble ;]

 

[3RA1N1AC]

We should also get rid of any technological advances due to corporations. I'm sure little mom and pop shops will really push the advancement envelope. Think how wonderful life would be if we replaced healthcare advancements with bead jewelry and flea markets.

yes, thank god nike invented air in their shoes, now our economy can truly prosper

 

[blazerboy30]

yes, thank god nike invented air in their shoes, now our economy can truly prosper

Yep. Those 35,000 employees of Nike would be better off trying to build and trade mud pots at the local village.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

most of them likely do after their 18 hour workday, in order to afford food

 

[blazerboy30]

most of them likely do after their 18 hour workday, in order to afford food

Here's a secret... those 35,000 employees don't have anything to do with the cheap labor you're referring to. But don't let me interrupt the extremely wrong view you have in your mind.

 

[PapaG]

Did I miss Solyndra on that list?

Oh, and why isn't this renamed : papag: ?

 

[blazerboy30]

Did I miss Solyndra on that list?

Oh, and why isn't this renamed : papag: ?

Dunno, but I'm glad you were able to direct another post to be about you.

 

[PapaG]

Dunno, but I'm glad you were able to direct another post to be about you.

I know you're glad about it. It was obvious in that Oden thread on the Blazer board.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Here's a secret... those 35,000 employees don't have anything to do with the cheap labor you're referring to.

ahh right, because the 300,000 little kids making the shoes in a sweatshop are "subcontractors"

 

[blazerboy30]

ahh right, because the 300,000 little kids making the shoes in a sweatshop are "subcontractors"

Oh dear. I'm going to leave it at that, before you hurt yourself.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

back when they fired all their american shoe manufacturers, and moved the jobs overseas to the lowest child labor bidder, man, what a great boon for americans that was

try not to think about it though, it might make you need to up your medication