Are "Big Oil" and other Energy Industries Engaging in "Profiteering?"

Worried? Don’t be. They're well regulated by the Federal Government, and it isn’t like the candidates who tell us every day about the evils of the Oil and Gas industries take big checks from them, right?

Oil & Gas Industry Contributions
Hillary Clinton (D) - $353,723
Barack Obama (D) - $266,097
Data courtesy OpenSecrets.org and the Center for Responsive Politics
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.asp?Ind=E01

Whoops!

Still, I’m sure that the majority of the money they take isn’t from big oil, though.

Oil Contributions
Hillary Clinton (D) - $276,150
Barack Obama (D) - $157,390
Data courtesy Oil Watchdog
http://www.oilwatchdog.org/?topicId=8059&/The+Industry

Nope, wrong again. Darn!

Then again, I don't care that much. I don't care who gives money to political campaigns, I'm more interested in the why.

If Washington, DC couldn't assume power over issues unrelated to its existence, and those in power weren't former and future lobbyists and attorneys for the major corporations, campaign contributions wouldn't matter, and Americans would still have:

• Sound Currency - The U.S. government established the fascist banking cabal known as the Federal Reserve
• Cheap Energy - The Sherman anti-trust act wasn't passed to prevent "high" oil prices, it was passed to prevent "low" ones
• Plentiful Food - Between the USDA paying farmers not to grow crops, the "copyrighting" of seeds by Monsanto and ADM, and the grinding of food corn into the inefficient ethanol our usable land and edible food have dwindled to new lows
• Peace - Every war the U.S. has engaged in for over 100 years has been fought in order to expand its empire and tighten its stranglehold on the world

But remember, the evil isn't Dr. Frankenstein, it's the monster he created!

--M.A. Hargett