"Why is gas so expensive?
2022 Q1 profits:
ExxonMobil - $5,480,000,000 (a 100% increase compared to 2021 Q1)
BP - $6,200,000,000 (highest quarterly profit in a decade)
Chevron - $6,260,000,000 (a 400% increase compared to 2021 Q1)
It’s wild how Covid has killed a million people in this country, and our government and the rich used it to facilitate the greatest upward transfer of wealth in history, and instead of being furious about that people are angry at masks.
Tuition-free community college would have benefited thousands of Americans and cost $9.5 billion per year, yet was cut from BBB because we “can’t afford it.”
Well, the new defense budget is $20 billion more than the President requested. So what can and can’t we afford?
Biden I just got a email about my student loans. They telling me the payment pause on student loans ends at the end of January. I’m going to have them email and call you because something must be wrong. I swear you told us you was canceling student loan debt.
Hey wait a sec. I keep hearing the corporate media tell us the problem is the dude who got a 25 cent raise at Burger King & a $1,400 check 7 months ago. Turns out the real problem is corporate greed & 700 billionaires becoming over $2 trillion richer in the pandemic. Go figure.
In the past two quarters, U.S. corporations outside of the finance industry posted their fattest margins since 1950—one reason why stock markets keep hitting all-time highs https://t.co/hvUtUi8UvQ
Johnson & Johnson (worth $400 billion) created a shell company in TX to hold all the liability for their carcinogenic baby powder, then filed for bankruptcy with the shell company. This is legal, because corporations write our laws. 38,000 women will go without a settlement