You DON'T HAVE A JOB

But

Exxon Mobil Profit Surges 63 Percent to $6.65 Billion on Higher Oil Prices
Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said fourth-quarter profit surged 63 percent on higher energy prices

DON'T WORRY, there is no inflation though, so your welfare check and social security payment will be lower...

[Cleita]

1. Well, I got a $13 raise in my SS this month and a

$15 raise in my useless health plan, so I lost $2 a month this year.

[ComerPerro]

2. I know, i just got fired

Oh well.

[Wwagsthedog]

6. I'm very sorry that you lost your job

Here's hoping that a new one comes your way very soon!

[ComerPerro]

7. Its cool

Im only 22, and I have enough money for a few months. Thanks though.

[NJCher]

3. Halliburton's doing rather well, too

Heard a report about it on the news last night. Of course, this has nothing to do with Dick Cheney and Hal's ties to the WH. I know because they ran a commercial about it, telling me so. They are just good folks who do good things in all parts of the world. I luv America. Makes me feeling kinda' warm and fuzzy inside. Now about that job...


Cher

[woofless]

4. How did you know?

I haven't told anyone that I haven't worked since May. Are you psychic? Quick what are the WA state lottery numbers? I really need them.

Woof

[SlavesandBulldozers]

5. why dont we all just start our own

oil companies? As long as we have a good work ethic, and believe in Jeebus, we can have riches on earth - while laying up treasures for ourselves in heaven by calling Pat Robertson and sending him all the money we save on prescriptions.

[ClintonTyree]

8. I'm willing to bet...............

that a Congressional Panel will find NO evidence of price gouging whatsoever. Any takers?

[DUreader]

9. Their year end profit was: $21.51 Billion US

Exxon Mobil Corp. saw fourth-quarter earnings jump 63 per cent as it benefited from higher prices for crude oil and natural gas.

Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said Thursday that it also set a record for earnings in one year, $21.51
billion US, nearly double its profit for all of 2002. In the October-December quarter, Exxon Mobil earned $6.65 billion, or $1.01 per share,
compared with $4.09 billion, or 60 cents per share, a year earlier.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/040129/b0129124.html


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58311-2004Jan28.html

Judge Says Exxon Owes $6.75 Billion For Valdez
Appeal Promised as Suit Over '89 Spill Drags On

By Griff Witte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 29, 2004; Page E01

A federal judge in Alaska yesterday ordered Exxon Mobil Corp. to pay $6.75 billion to 32,000 fisherman, landowners and others affected
by the 11 million gallons of oil that poured into Prince William Sound after the grounding of the Exxon Valdez nearly 15 years ago.

Exxon Mobil immediately vowed to appeal, and the case seems destined for further litigation.

Yesterday's ruling stems from the torrent of lawsuits filed after the spill against Exxon by fishermen, Alaska Natives, landowners, small
businessmen and municipalities in south-central Alaska. Those suits led to a 1994 decision by an Anchorage jury that awarded a
consolidated set of plaintiffs $5 billion in punitive damages. Since then, the case has been kicked back and forth between federal judge H.
Russel Holland's court in Alaska and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California, which has twice vacated Holland's decisions.

...more...

[Tansy_Gold]

10. If Exxon were a REAL person. . . .

. . .. their wages would be garnished to pay off the debt/fine.

But, since ExxonMobil is only a legal personhood /bad syntax, I know, I don't care/ they can just refuse to pay and refuse and refuse and refuse. . . . .

I say they should be subjected to capital punishment -- take away all their capital and decapitalate them.

Tansy Gold, who is not yet fully awake and therefore not responsible for any of her really atrocious puns.