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Comment Re:BP makes 93 mil a day (Score 3, Informative) 593

Where did you get $13 billion?

I looked up BP's 2009 revenue and came up with $246.14 billion

Also I think your confusing and/or commingling taxes and royalties

The government collects production royalties to compensate the general public for the market value of the resources that businesses remove from public lands.

It's not BP's oil, it the people of the United States oil. We agreed to let them take it out of our ground and sell it, if they give us a share. That's not a tax.

Comment Re:PETA is redundant, we have the SPCA (Score 1) 356

Being raised by a good rancher is a great bargain for a cow.

Remember that great bargain of yours includes having your balls removed (for what, maybe 99% of the males) without anesthesia?

And of course I assume your good rancher does not send his cattle to a feedlot since I don't see how anyone could consider that to be less suffering than being free.

Comment False premise (Score 1) 147

Private industry is doing all sorts of analysis of you as a consumer to provide you better service and to let them make more profit....

I'm not OK with Private industry doing all sorts of analysis on me as a consumer, but I'm powerless to make them stop. I guess if I had enough money I could buy enough shares to effect change in all publicly traded companies... but I don't have that kind of cash.

If they have been providing me better service as a result, It's gone unnoticed.

But the same consumer that's okay with private industry doing that is not okay, in a knee-jerk reaction, with government doing that.

That's a false premise, I'm not OK with private industry doing it.

I don't think my reaction is "knee-jerk", it's grown over the years as I've learned more and more about how governments in general and this one in particular abuse their power.

Comment Re:I don't understand (Score 1) 384

It's COMPLETELY incomprehencible to me that anyone is willing to accept that crap. Seriously.

It's only incomprehencible because you don't know enough average Americans.

The average American believes America is the greatest country on earth, and thus must have the greatest healthcare system on earth. They believe that should be obvious to you, since they pay the most for their healthcare, how could it be anything other than the best.

You can't swing a dead cat in America without hitting a nationalistic moron.

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