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| Oil companies are making record profits!!!!!
They are ripping us off!!!! Tax them and those fat cats that are making that money!!!!! Guess what? Its thee and me. Finally today there was an article in todays paper stating what many of us had long suspected. The single biggest factor[about 95% of the reason]behind the high oil prices is due to speculation on the part of PENSION PLANS. Teachers,preachers,policemen and every one else that has a retirement plan that invests in the market. Makes you think.Nahhh,never happen.It's more fun to bash the veep and others.lol |
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| I insist that my 401K only invest in seaweed ventures and clamshell futures! I have a dandy cranberry stock it's intials are BOGWASH! |
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- Posted by paparoseman z8 WA. Tac. (My Page) on Thu, Sep 13, 07 at 22:00
| All of my money is tied up in rose company stocks, even if they dont have stock. With the number of companies going out of business it wont belong before all of it is worth nothing more than a wiff of fragrance. Lance |
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- Posted by michaelalreadytaken No Cal (My Page) on Fri, Sep 14, 07 at 16:51
| You haven't really lived until you've experienced the sheer joy of telling some "activist" that Exxon is over fifty percent owned by pension plans and less than one percent by "insiders." Casts Exxon's record $37B profit in a whole new light, doesn't it? You said you'd never compromise MichaelAT |
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| Investment Funds (in which your pension plan money is heavily invested) own so much stock in many of the Fortune 400 companies that they have a say on the Board of Directors. Since they only care about the bottom line (how much did you make this quarter), they advocate policies that run counter to the best long-term interests of the corporation (not to mention the corporation's employees and customers). The CEO's compensation is set by the Board. The Board ties the compensation of upper management to stock performance. Not surprisingly, management makes decisions based on what will help the stock this quarter, not what will help the corporation, its employees and customers in the long term. When a company has hired a CEO to help it recover from mismanagement, you notice one of the first things they do is buy back a bunch of their stock. What they are doing is buying back control of the company so they can make the necessary decisions free from the bottom line this quarter pressure syndrom. |
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