Energy Firms Lavish Funds on Inauguration

[CHIMO]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The energy industry and some of its executives have contributed over a million dollars to President Bush's inauguration fund, the committee handling the festivities reported Friday.

Occidental Petroleum Corp., whose business stands to benefit from the president's actions in regard to Libya, donated $250,000, as did Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company. Exxon Mobil reported record third-quarter profits, thanks to higher prices for oil and natural gas.

Other donors from the energy sector included Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, who gave $250,000; and former Enron President Richard Kinder, who left the firm five years before it collapsed and now is CEO of one of the largest energy transportation and storage companies in the country. Kinder also gave $250,000.

Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Inc., the world's largest personal computer maker, gave $250,000.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4680169,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704

[truthisfreedom]

1. no, ya think?

[Erika]

2. Corporate Globalists saying thank you to one of their own

Why not skip a lavish inauguration and send the $ for our troops?

[chomskysright]

3. no more Dell for me...

I alredy wrote them. fuck them

[caligirl]

4. ugh!!1Just bought a Dell for our son.(college)

[Ms. Clio]

5. I don't understand how this is legal

Isn't inaugurating a president a public matter? Why are private corporations so involved?

I mean, I know why they are involved, but I'm trying and failing to recall how many corporations paid for Lincoln or FDR's inauguration?

Christ, could it be any more blatant that this is truly a fascist country in the classic sense of the merger of government and corporate interests?

[adolfo]

6. ..

I've been planning on buying a Dell computer system lately. Not anymore.

[Why Syzygy]

8. look at Gateway

nicer (imho).

[Why Syzygy]

7. Fund?

Why do they need a FUND?
I don't get it. :shrug:

[MasonJar]

9. Just like last time. Which of the crooks gave the most.? I remem-

ber that the World Com con man gave $1 hundred thousand. George Bush has no shame and no morals and no business being anything more important than the local peeping Tom.