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_________________________________________ Editorial Opinions Obscene Oil Profits When a CEO can take home a hundred times more than the President of the United States in one year, something is radically wrong in this country. Former Exxon CEO Lee Raymond was paid $144,533 per day from 1993 to 2005 and a hefty $400 million for his final year with Exxon Mobil. While consumer gas prices at the pump are now at an all-time high, leaving many to decide between gas for the car or food for the family, oil companies execs are raking in millions in obscene profits. Enough is enough! The only way to retaliate is at the pump. Last year, some opted for a “Gas Out” day when gas wouldn’t be purchased on a certain day. It didn’t work, and even if it did it would not have hurt the big oil companies. Instead, what I would like everyone to do is to just stop buying gas from the two major companies, Mobil and Exxon. If everyone did this, the big boys would soon wake up and lower their prices, which would then lower all gas prices. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Outsourcing is bad for America President Bush is on record as saying, “Outsourcing is good” for America. Of course this is the same man who offered 900 precision-guided bomb kits, worth over $123 million, to the country from which Osama bin Laden and most of the terrorists of 9/11 came. So common sense is not one of his strongest qualities. Let's face it, where is the logic of a newspaper like the Bradenton (FL) Herald eliminating its entire ad production department and outsourcing all the work to India? Outsourcing degrades the American worker. Publishers are quick to blame the bad economy and the Internet. That may be true. But I believe corporate greed plays a major part too. American company executives are reaping huge profits by outsourcing their operations to third world counties like India. “We live in strange times when patriotism merely extends to unnecessary wars and not to protecting the lives and welfare of American families by keeping jobs here,” Senator Dennis Kucinich admitted. It’s true that workers are paid much less in India than in America. For instance, a programmer in India averages $8,000 a year compared to $70,000 in America. But shouldn’t American employers have some loyalty to their dedicated employees? The Los Angeles Times and Columbus Dispatch, as well as 40 other papers in California, are also planning to outsource their ad production to India. And each day more and more newspapers are doing the same, leaving thousands without jobs. Outsourcing is not new. Millions of factory jobs have been going overseas for years, nearly three million since 2001. Experts predict up to 14 million jobs will be outsourced in the next few years. One can not even begin to comprehend the personal suffering that many good American workers will have to endure. It's time to take a stand against this growing problem. Plain and simple: Outsourcing is bad for America!
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