Obama Awards Billions To Worst American Companies

[RufusTFirefly]

7. Is that the best you can do? Pathetic. How about responding to the actual issues?

Don't worry. I'm not holding my breath.

In 2012 ... 17 of the top 100 recipients of government contracts were listed as some of the worst polluters in America. These companies included General Electric (2nd in the U.S. at the time for air pollution), Shell, Exxon, Halliburton, and BP.

And in terms of spending on lobbying and direct campaign donations, these corporations are also at the top of that list.

... we now have a system in place that not only refuses to punish polluters, but actually rewards them with tax breaks, deferred prosecutions, and even multi-million dollar federal contracts.

Groups Encourage Transparency, Ask Obama For Honesty About Corporate Spending


Would you like to try to make the country a better place? Or would you prefer to waste your time ignoring, deflecting, and attacking inconvenient truths? (Don't worry: Those are rhetorical questions.)