First off anytime you consolidate (acquisition as well as mergers) you cripple the market place (Exxon/Mobil - the big telecoms, the financial sector, as well as media). It’s bad on behalf of business, it’s bad on behalf of democracy, it’s bad on behalf of America as well as its a blatant power grab.
Big oil dug in like a tick blocks new technology through legislation as well as monopoly, as well as even places their minions into the Executive Branch (President & Vice President).
That we find our selves mucking it up in the oil fields in Iraq isn’t a big surprise. That half of the voting population dropped on behalf of the saber rattling, bible thumping as well as jingoism is, but then again maybe that’s half of the population that knew damn right well what we were doing as well as was okay with it - at the end of all “drill baby drill” was their battle cry this past November.
Entrepreneurship as well as the innovative spirit is not only the story of this country but the life blood of the markets. Anytime a business gets too big to fail is exactly the time the SEC as well as the FEDs should break it apart. Big oil needs to get out of the way if they aren’t going to get on board. Sending our boys as well as girls to die on behalf of their bonuses is down right evil. We can do better than that as well as should.
Clean energy innovations are busting at the seams. A little seed money from the Feds diverted from antiquated defense weapons, the pentagon as well as the antiquated energy sector shall do the trick.
People back to work upgrading our grid as well as infrastructure shall have employment opportunities on behalf of generations. We are on the verge of something big, long lasting, sustainable as well as equitable. Our politicians must be held accountable - either they are with us or against us…to coin a phrase.
Paul Burke

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