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Exxon Mobil Profit Soars 41% on Higher Prices, Refining
  • MysticBard April 2012 +1 -1
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203554104577001523057007892.html


    With all the tremolo around the world, a National Debt that looks like a clock taking us to the
    end of time, with all the people starving people with children not having health insurance with
    the number of people living without housing or work. How can a company like this make this
    kind of return on their investment How can they not show compassion or chick duty and donate
    some of their wealth even if they are not required to under our present tax laws?????????????????

    Large American and or Foreign Corporations doing business in the United States who are profiting like
    Exxon, Apple, Sony, Goldman Sachs and OTHERS like large transportation business should be Adopting
    Bridges, Nuclear Power Plants, Schools, etc using some of their exuberant profits they are earning
    from either their customers and or our taxes to revamp the failing infrastructure we have inherited.

    Creating new jobs good will is a important part of doing business and even though companies like
    Boeing who never pay any taxes and who in many cases receive large amounts of money
    from our Government [our taxes dollars] don’t have to Adopt a project THEY SHOULD WANT TO.

    In principle it is a fundamental responsibility of these companies to contribute back to the communities
    where they operate and to the country that allows them to do business within a free enterprise system.