First of all, T-zer, the share of the US market that Exxon controls is really what we are talking about here... If you have a corporation of that size making more money than the GNP's of many countries and that corporation has unfettered access to power then it is no wonder that the US governemnt is involved in 2 massive wars over oil...

Secondly, as a working man who understands the concept of "making" money I resent the term "making" when it comes to crooks who game the system and control the rules... That isn't making money... That is stealing money...

And if banks expect my tax dollars to bail them out when they screw up then, yes, these same banks have a moral obligation to serve Main Street as well as their own self interests... I'd much rather see the banking system nationalized and ther playing field leveled between Main Street and Wall Street... It is way out of wack and the kind of situation you'd be more apt to find in a Third World dictatorship than in the US of A...

B~