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Exxon is the 17th largest economy in the world
http://www.corporationsandhealth.org/2015/08/27/the-100-largest-governments-and-corporations-by-revenue/Putin's Rosneft oil company is #70. Five of the 35 world's largest economies are oil companies. These companies placed oil men and women throughout W's administration, including VP and SOS...and it changed the course of our country and the world. As bad as it was, it's still getting worse. Now it's Cheney, Wolfowitz, Scooter, and Rumsfeld on steroids.
Think other nations and other top oil companies are worried about Exxon, USA, Russia, and Rosneft ruling the world? Is this marriage stabilizing or destabilizing? Most powerful nation in history wedded to the most profitable, most sociopathic industry in history?
Cabinet positions now filled with billionaire corporatists...probably the closest we've been to a Rollerball scenario. In 2002 51 of the world's largest economies were businesses...now it's 63 of the top 100. Think this number will go down anytime soon?
Is this good for the voters of WI, MI, and PA?
