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From: His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the Movement of Tantra-Hammock on 18 Jun 2010 18:25
On Jun 17, 4:15 pm, John Manning <jrobe...(a)terra.com.br> wrote:
> ABC NEWS - BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg today said that President
> Obama is frustrated because he cares about the small people. And we
> care about the small people. I hear comments sometimes that large oil
> companies are really companies that don t care, but that is not the case
> in BP, we care about the small people.
>
> The Swedish-born Svanberg made his comments after a more than four hour
> meeting between BP executives and White House officials, including
> President Obama.
>
> more here:http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/06/bp-chairman-we-care-a...

They care enough about the little people to make them the center of
their predation...

HOW THE POLITICAL JUNGLE WORKS
Politics works like this: Big People of Big Country buy Big People of
Little Country, who, by the way, will be elected in "democratic
elections" thanks to big bucks; Big People of Big Country give big
loans to Little Country (of course, to buy "made in Big Country"); Big
People of Little Country pocket a big chunk and invest it in the Big
Country, without ever investing in real development (education,
health, the environment, etc); Little People of Little Country work
for ever to pay back what they never got; Big People of Little Country
thank Big People of Big Country in big ceremony, and promise to repay
the big debt; and Little People of Little Country get big promises,
just like Little People of Big Country. And they lived happily ever
after... (Moral: The Big Fish eats the Little Fish. Well, unless the
Little Fish get organized...)

From: His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the Movement of Tantra-Hammock on 18 Jun 2010 18:43
On Jun 17, 6:52 pm, "Diogenes" <Dioge...(a)its.invalid> wrote:
> "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the Movement of Tantra-Hammock"<nolionnoprob...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:a8552eae-5fa3-4c5d-886c-44a242f1cb97(a)i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
> On Jun 15, 5:30 pm, "Tyrone" <T...(a)its.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>
> > "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the Movement of
> > Tantra-Hammock"<nolionnoprob...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:b0527ee7-35de-48fa-ae18-73c637f63c2b(a)w31g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...>
> > What IhateaboutBigOilis their incessant campaign to appear
> > > "environmentally friendly." Funny, the drivers of pollution and the
> > > deniers of evolution toward smarter forms of transportation, must
> > > appear to do the opposite.
>
> > =======
> > Thebigoilcompanies ARE very careful to do as little damage as possible to
> > the environment. They supply the energy that is absolutely necessary to
> > make society function. They are all working on alternative forms of energy
> > that is more environmentally friendly, but until some future time, those
> > forms of energy are not sufficient to replace the old-fashioned, polluting
> > kind of energy that you use in your car and provides the fuel to produce
> > the
> > electricity you use to light your home, play your TV, etc.
>
> > The alternative would be to go back to the horse and buggy days.
>
> > Eventually something needs to be done, but without a national policy to
> > force it, things will move at a snail's pace.
>
> You will never have a national policy of CONSERVATION because whoever
> proposes that will be out of office. If Obama had to fight over
> universal healthcare tooth and nail, winning support for higher gas
> taxes would lead to riots on the streets or worse.
>
> All it takes is:
>
> 1- HIGHER GAS TAXES,
>
> 2- TAME TRAFFIC to make roads safe for other vehicles,
>
> 3- ALLOW BICYLES TO TAKE THE LANE,
>
> 4- IMPROVE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND FUND ALTERNATIVE VEHICLES with
> the money collected --not for wars!
> ===
> Some of your suggestions are valid, but nothing is being done. Welfare and
> warfare dominate the political agenda and is financed by morgaging our
> grandchildren's future.

Thank you. Some day, someone will notice that neither one solves
problems in the long term. But they do get the VOTES the politicians
so desperately need in the short term.

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