Fun Facts

[The Mirror]

The U.S. military is the world's largest consumer of Middle Eastern oil.

[The Mirror]

In 2010, General Electric, made $14.2 billion in profits, paid $0 in taxes, and collected $3.2 billion in tax benefits. Its called corporate walfare- GE gets to make billions in this country using our people, our roads, bridges, trains and ports- they don't pay for any of it and actually get 3.2 billion of tax payer money, and the Right wing nuts here are silent, but when a poor single mother in our community gets a little free juice, milk and cereal (the WIC program) a month..... they go besrk and want to elect people who will cut them off.

Republicans and Tea Baggers attack the weakest amongst us, and they call themselves "men"

[Grady]

Over 300,000 people work for GE. That is over 300,000 taxpayers.

BTW they have over 5000 active openings world wide.

[The Mirror]

Over 300,000 people work for GE. That is over 300,000 taxpayers.

BTW they have over 5000 active openings world wide.

Oh i'm so gratful for GE for deciding to make money by loaning us money and selling us stuff....Nobody else could do it, and where would civilisation we be without them!?

Here let me get down on my knees like you Grandpaw..

Commerce serves us, we don't serve commerce! You werent put here on earth to makes things just right for a company to make money off of you, and If GE one day decides to stop loaning money or building jet engines there are a thousand companies and millions of investors that would line up to do it..Its a privilage to make billions of dollars, a privilage GE pays nothing for.

So get up off your knees grady!

[The Mirror]

In 2008 Goldman Sachs handed out $13bn in bonuses to its employees after receiving a $12bn taxpayer bail-out in the same year.

[The Mirror]

The United States denies that it is an imperial power yet it has 737 military bases outside of the United States.

[The Mirror]

Three people have as much wealth as the total annual income of the poorest 48 countries.

[Gypsy Girl]

Three people have as much wealth as the total annual income of the poorest 48 countries.

So much for singing "We Are The World"! Sad but true, and top of it the powerful countries are
effecting their weather and crops.

[Photo-fish]

[Cinnamongirl]

That can't be true. It makes them brittle.