Comments on: Oilsands, slaves, and two visitors http://rexweyler.com/2008/04/30/oilsands-slaves-and-two-visitors/ Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:11:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrea Peloso http://rexweyler.com/2008/04/30/oilsands-slaves-and-two-visitors/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Andrea Peloso Sat, 03 May 2008 12:45:15 +0000 http://rexweyler.com/2008/04/30/oilsands-slaves-and-two-visitors/#comment-178 There is a long, ugly history of everyday citizens paying for the crimes of the wealthy. Noam Chomsky points out that Imperialism has generally been founded on money of taxpayers - people who rarely even benefitted from it's horrible conquests as if there were any other point than domination. According to Conscience Canada the average tax payer today is paying over $500 a year for the Canadian military, a 27% increase from years past. Oil money for the rich again is a partial reason for this. So we are paying even more than we can see. The picture becomes more ugly and clear when we look at corporations who do not even have to profess that they have a responsibility to benefit anyone but themselves. As we look around us we find products full of things that can harm us, and our earthly home in shambles. We can get corporations off of our backs everyday by choosing eachother, choosing not to beleive that there is a benefit in the "point system" on our gas card. In the case of oil, each time we find a way to use less and use other resources, and protest openly, we challenge history to stop it's cycle of repetition. There is a long, ugly history of everyday citizens paying for the crimes of the wealthy. Noam Chomsky points out that Imperialism has generally been founded on money of taxpayers – people who rarely even benefitted from it’s horrible conquests as if there were any other point than domination. According to Conscience Canada the average tax payer today is paying over $500 a year for the Canadian military, a 27% increase from years past. Oil money for the rich again is a partial reason for this. So we are paying even more than we can see.

The picture becomes more ugly and clear when we look at corporations who do not even have to profess that they have a responsibility to benefit anyone but themselves. As we look around us we find products full of things that can harm us, and our earthly home in shambles.

We can get corporations off of our backs everyday by choosing eachother, choosing not to beleive that there is a benefit in the “point system” on our gas card. In the case of oil, each time we find a way to use less and use other resources, and protest openly, we challenge history to stop it’s cycle of repetition.

]]> By: Anita http://rexweyler.com/2008/04/30/oilsands-slaves-and-two-visitors/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Anita Thu, 01 May 2008 20:26:51 +0000 http://rexweyler.com/2008/04/30/oilsands-slaves-and-two-visitors/#comment-159 I'm confused! I just read that EXXON ( Imperial Oils parent) posted a single quarter PROFIT of $10.9 billion. Excuse me, I was just wondering why it was that EXXON was not using this money to clean up it's own mess in Alberta? And... even if the government keeps giving these folks money to clean up their messes, why is it that we are not sharing in the profits they make too? Is this insane to anyone else? The canadian government needs to look that SOB in the eye and say clean up your own damn mess with the $10.9 billion you stole from us already... and by the way.... if you keep wanting us to be partners on the expenses why the hell aren't we partners on the damn profits... scag... and if the oil sands are not profitable when you add in the cost to clean up after yourself then maybe we should not be doing it... I am getting more and more irascible about all of this tom foolery... in fact... better yet "Get the hell off of my planet..." you've out stayed your welcome... I’m confused! I just read that EXXON ( Imperial Oils parent) posted a single quarter PROFIT of $10.9 billion. Excuse me, I was just wondering why it was that EXXON was not using this money to clean up it’s own mess in Alberta?

And… even if the government keeps giving these folks money to clean up their messes, why is it that we are not sharing in the profits they make too?

Is this insane to anyone else?

The canadian government needs to look that SOB in the eye and say

clean up your own damn mess with the $10.9 billion you stole from us already… and by the way…. if you keep wanting us to be partners on the expenses why the hell aren’t we partners on the damn profits… scag…

and if the oil sands are not profitable when you add in the cost to clean up after yourself then maybe we should not be doing it…

I am getting more and more irascible about all of this tom foolery…

in fact… better yet “Get the hell off of my planet…” you’ve out stayed your welcome…

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