Supreme Court Rules $2.5 Billion Exxon-Valdez Damages Excessive

June 25, 2008

  • June 25, 2008 at 4:26 am
    Mongoose says:
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    We need to discuss the verdict and not polictics BUT- We thought of running for president in my office. Ivan Boski would be sec’t of treasury, We had George Carlin as our drug Czar & homeland security, Don Imus as Press Sec’y,ADT as homeland security (got to love TYCO).

    This makes about as much scense as everything that is going on.

    This country needs some real leadership and whcih ever party has it regardless of them being blue or red we should for the most and best qualified candidate.

    As insurance professionals we should try and keep on the topic at hand which is the court’s decision.

  • June 25, 2008 at 4:33 am
    Dick says:
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    Bush lovers and ignorant conservatives, did you know the oil companies get subsidies from our government? They probably don’t tell you that on Fox news.

    Remove the subsidies on the oil companies and the extra profit to the government would be used to reduce taxes on gas and thus the price of gas would go down.

    There you go a hole, what can I help you with next?

  • June 25, 2008 at 4:40 am
    Waiting says:
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    Wow Dick, that was really good. You actualy were able to put a thought together.

    Have you ever watched Fox News or have you been to busy blogging on the Daily Kos? If you ever get the chance you may see that differing opinions are presented. Of course that is not really what you “open minded” people want.

    You need to pull your head out of your rear if you think the government is going to lower the gas tax as a result of the removal of oil subsidies.

  • June 25, 2008 at 4:41 am
    Buckeye says:
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    Atta boy, Dick — right on cue and according to the script.

  • June 25, 2008 at 4:44 am
    Dick says:
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    Yea, nice response, adding nothing, saying nothing, and refuting nothing.

  • June 25, 2008 at 4:47 am
    BDS says:
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    “Yea, nice response, adding nothing, saying nothing, and refuting nothing.”

    What’s the matter, Dick? You mad because someone is stealing your style of responding to a question?

  • June 25, 2008 at 4:50 am
    Just joining says:
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    Dick,

    Were you aware that a lot of organizations get subsidies and funding from the government,some with which I’m sure you side.

    I agree we should cut subsidies to all those feeding off the government. If you don’t agree, you’re a hypocrite.

    Cutting subsidies and funding would save a lot of tax dollars. Unless, of course, you’re against fee market economies and are a conspiracy theorist.

  • June 25, 2008 at 4:55 am
    bob says:
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    From Publishers Weekly
    Johnston, a New York Times investigative reporter, has spent his 40-year career exposing collusion between government officials and private sector entities as they enrich the rich and ignore consequences for middle-class laborers and the poor. In Perfectly Legal, he focused on hidden inequities in the tax system. This volume is a broader examination of collusion and unfairness, ranging from subsidies for professional sports stadiums to secret payouts to multinational corporate chief executives. At the base of Johnston’s journalistic indictment are the highly paid lobbyists working Congress, state legislatures, county commissions, city councils and government regulatory agencies. Johnston also cites the culpability of George W. Bush in his roles as professional baseball team owner, Texas governor and U.S. president, and targets well-known tycoons such as Donald Trump, Warren Buffett and George Steinbrenner as well as lesser-recognized beneficiaries who own golf courses and insurance companies and energy consortiums. Heroes appear occasionally, such as Remy Welling, an Internal Revenue Service investigator who blew the whistle on improper tax breaks for the wealthy and lost her job. Johnston writes compellingly to show how government-private sector collusion affects the middle class and the poor. (Jan.)
    Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  • June 25, 2008 at 4:57 am
    SDB says:
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    Dear BDS,

    You seem like a charming guy. Makes whatever your agenda is totally ineffective.

  • June 25, 2008 at 5:02 am
    no oil man says:
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    All right! Got everybody upset and jawbonin’ and talkin’ some real issues. Fox Propaganda takin’ it in the shorts as they deserve! Beaten down centrists and lefties finally speakin’ their peace. You are the majority. Don’t be bullied by right wing chickenhawk, phony patriots any longer.

    Let’s go out in November and git our gummint back from the corporate fat cats and their mouthpieces. Let’s git our money back from the big corporations–they stole it, alright, but not fair and square.

    And don’t forget the war in Iraq (or the one we didn’t choose in Afghanistan). Stopping trading corporate profits for American lives! Become Americans.



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