Top 10- Anti-Gay Corporations!

[neptunebob]

Regarding the issue of benefits for partners, why do we not just have national health care, as proposed by Dennis Kucinich and is that way in every other country on Earth, rather than have to worry about who to work for to get benefits? I have heard of people who don't particularly like each other get married for the health insurance. How did we ever get like this? Hillary and Obama propose that people not insured through their companies can get the same plan Members of Congress have. But if no domestic partner benefits, is that really an improvement? I will, in fact, soon be uninsured as my job no longer offers benefits but that would not happen if I had a Wife so I could sponge off her benefits. The only thing left for me to do is spend down all my savings and go on Medicaid.

 

[neptunebob]

Oh, and as for Texas, I think some day they may secede from the United States - It seems to be a very conservative and not very understanding place. I understand that they are not the same electric grid as the rest of the nation so why should they share anything else?

 

[whirlcool]

The ExxonMobil issue is much more complicated..

Over the past 10 years, Exxon has been closing down retail outlets every year. For every 10 they close only 1 new one opens. Why is this? ExxonMobil has stated many times that they do not want to be the Number 1 retailer of gasoline. Retail sales only contribute a small amount to their bottom line. So where does ExxonMobil make it's money?
In sale of chemicals to other companies, that's where. It's a laundry list (so to speak) of other companies. Boeing, GM, Ford, Chrysler, Revlon, Maybeliene, many toy companies, etc. all buy things like petro based chemicals to use in other products. The only place ExxonMobil is huge is in the airline aviation fuel supply arena. And that division is London based. And the customer has almost no control over that.
So you have a company that declares it's profits in the billions of dollars every year and do you think they care about any group boycotting them?
If you ask anyone at Exxon about the Valdez incident, they'll tell you that THEY were the victim of that incident due to the massive fines and local supply fees they had to pay to recover the area from the oil spill.
ExxonMobil has set themselves up pretty much to be buy out proof, boycott proof and they'll pay megabucks to ensure that they get positive publicity at all times. One of the ways they do this is by making massive multi million dollar donations to things like the United Way, of which both the local AIDS Foundation and the Boy Scouts are members of. Strange bedfellows, eh?