Exxon's Profits Are A Paultry $5 Million Dollars An Hour

Yes, that is right. Poor Exxon Oil is bearly making ends meet because they are only making five million dollars an hour in PROFITS! For those of us that are in the lap of luxury and making eight to ten dollars an hour (before taxes), we need to keep this in a proper perspective. The Democrats that are calling for the tax loop-holes to be closed, must understand that if we do this what will happen to the CEO of Exxon. He might have to consider bankruptcy just to make ends meet. The Republicans have it right. Exxon needs more tax credits, so they can keep this small business afloat. Let's think about some other examples of how greedy the American public has become. We are crying about the fact that after paying Social Security taxes and Medicaid and Medicare taxes for forty or fifty years, we have a right to see some of that money back in the form of benefits. What a bunch of whiners. We have to be willing to make the sacrifices instead of looking to close tax loop-holes. Yeah Eric Cantor, you go guy.  Get those corporations and elite. Wait what was that you said. You then want us to cut their tax rate, for a zero increase in revenue? I see your point Mr. Cantor. How can they give you a share of their profits if they have to pay taxes. That will seriously cut their $5 million dollars an hour in profit to maybe 4.95 million dollars an hour in profit. Listen to the average person complaining about the losses they have suffered in their 401K's and the values of their homes. How can we compare that to the sacrifices the poor corporations have faced? What's that you say. The corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars. Yeah that may well be, but if we make them pay more in taxes, they will suffer. Yesterday I saw an article about a hedge fund trader, that makes only $520 thousand dollars an hour. How can we sleep at night knowing that we asked that poor person to pay a little of that in taxes. He works hard. He takes other people's money and gambles with it. How is this any different then you taking your neighbor's money to Vegas with you and hoping to turn a profit. If you lose your friend's money so what. This guy has no skin of his own in the game and makes a tidy little amount of money to offset his problems. I also saw where some states are going to cut the school week from five to four days. Imagine the amount of money we will save on this. It makes more sense to do this then it would to charge General Electric (7.5% tax rate on billions of dollars in profit) more money. Now some naysayers will try and influence us, by stating that down the road we will have to pay more because our children will be less educated. They will say that we are falling further behind other countries in education and will struggle to compete with them in technology and industry because of the cuts. My response to them is simple. So what! It is all about today. How can we cut our budget and debt if we keep paying for useless items like education. How can the large corporations continue to hire more people if we make them pay more in taxes. Now some people will tell us that even though corporate welfare has been saving trillions of dollars for small businesses like Bank of America, they have been cutting jobs instead of creating more jobs. To this I say, give them time. They have only been getting these special tax breaks for fifty years. You cannot expect them to turn this around overnight. You see when you look at this issue, through unjaded eyes, it is quite clear I have been wrong and the Republicans have been right. The small businesses like CitiCorp are being used as a scapegoat. The job creators. The very businesses that can turn this economy around and give all of us good, high paying jobs. We need to get down on our hands and knees and thank God above for the companies like Exxon, that is generously, gouging us with higher gasoline prices. They are eking out profits and all we do is mock and complain. For my part I want to have my tax rate go up to 60% so we can protect the Exxon's of the world. God Bless the United States of America and God bless the United States of Corporations. As the great Governor of Florida would say, "Lets get to work". What do you mean there are no jobs. See, there you go being negative again.