Are Big Oil stockholders traitors for bloodmoney?

Question

Can anyone justify all of the greed involved with any company or any investor who would wage war on the Middle East so they can get richer?
That also includes stockholders in KB&R, The Carlyle Group, and many others who are financially benefitting from this usurping of the Middle East!

I am asking a bipartisan question!
I don't care which side of politics people fall on!!!!The fact that ANY American would invest in companies that profit from war are traitors to thier own citizens!!

Lizardmama: As a matter of fact my grandparents and my mother taught me and my siblings that SAVING money doesn't have to be based on profitting from other peoples weakness and pain. So we do not invest our money in the stock market because so much of it does profit from pain in one respect or another!
It is a matter of saving portions of your salary or wage to support YOURSELF at every stage of your life!

Answer 1

Big oil nor stockholders waged war on anyone.. Are you saying that the purpose of running a buisness or supplying a service should be free... If so , if your 401k is invested with any company or entity of one these companies , than you too are a bloodmoney traitor....You must also include private security services, banks, PR consultancies, urban planning consortiums, architects and energy advisory bodies,civil engineering companies, etc.... May want to check if you profit from any of these..

Answer 2

Clearly, you do not hold investments or plan for your future. Will you be an elderly woman living off the state? I hold many stocks, and I receive royalties monthly from oil revenues. These holdings were purchased by my family as long ago as the late 1800's and have been passed down through the family through inheritance. You would want me, and many other stockholders like me, to forfeit our inheritance and incomes simply because of the political developments of the last 5 years. You also assume that the only reason we're involved in the middle east is to make a buck. You probably believe we're only there to "steal their oil" and that 9/11 was an inside job.

I'm sad that I'll be paying for your medicare and food stamps when you're 75.

Answer 3

The companies are just leeching off the lead of the government. It's unlikely that private companies would wage war on their own - way too expensive. Like every other group that receives benefits from the government, they are simply reaping the rewards of their ill gotten gains.

If anyone deserves the blame for the foreign wars, it is the interventionist politicians who wish to impose their will upon the rest of the world..

Answer 4

People like you don't seem to understand the complete and overwhelming necessity of oil to our country. Its not about cheap gas prices, or making a few people rich. A nations national security is entirely dependent upon its economic well being; you need money to pay police officers, fire fighters, and soldiers.

The global economy depends on the U.S. economy, the U.S. economy depends on the consumer, and the consumer depends not only on the stock market, but also on their own financial situation to determine whether or not he/she can spend a little extra money, which can start a butterfly effect of strengthening the economy. America is totally dependent on Arab oil, as long as this is the case, there will be more wars fought in that region than there could be if we were not dependent on Arab oil. Bush, who i am no fan of, was indeed talking about this while he ran for President. He said that the Arabs have us over the barrel, and that if we don't start drilling for our own oil we were going to be sucked into involving ourselves in Mid East affairs. Franklin Roosevelt understood this, and that is when he established ties with Saudi Arabia just before he died. Eisenhower knew this, and authorized the CIA to help British intelligence install the Shah in Iran, Johnson understood this, and authorized the CIA to help put Saddam in power, Carter understood this and encouraged Saddam to invade Iran after the Islamic revolution, Reagan understood this and sold Saddam weapons to do it, Bush understood this and checked Saddam after invading Kuwait and threatening to take Saudi Arabia and with it almost half of the worlds oil supply. Bush Jr. is invading Iraq because a lot of the terrorists in Afghanistan fled the battlefield and made their way into Iraq (not an easy trip unless someone wants you in Iraq). Indeed Saddam was aware when any high ranking terrorist was in his country, like Zarquawi, who was there long before we were, waging his Islamic Jihad against Saddams Kurdish enemies. Every credible intelligence agency in the world believed Saddam had WMD's incluing the French. Saddam admitted to the UN in 1995 he had them, and never demonstrated their destruction. When 1441 was passed he still wouldn't let inspectors into various sights in his country. Saddam was in material breach of seventeen Security Council resolutions and was costing American tax payers almost 100 billion dollars a year to enforce the no fly zones.

Quit mindlessly goose stepping behind media talking points and political platitudes. I don't blame anyone for expressing their feelings about something, but I do ask that they educate themselves before making a stupid and consequential claim.

Answer 5

People who know nothing about economics love to ask questions like this. I will make it simple for those of you who are hardcore liberals. When demand for an item goes up, and supply goes down (or even stays the same), the prices and the profits go up too . . . . its a basic economic principal. It doesn't make share holders "evil"

Answer 6

Sounds like you should ask Hillary. She has many investments in Big oil. If you think this war is over the US getting more oil, you are sadly mistaken, or being led like a blind sheep.

Answer 7

Absolutely not, that is just an opinion that is set out by people who are simply not as fortunate. All people want to make money, all people need to make money. There is no reason to call someone a barbarian or a traitor or a warmonger simply because they are an economic genius.

Answer 8

Are all tobacco stockholders murderers?

Hillary owns quite a bit of oil stock, I believe - does that make her a traitor, too?

Answer 9

I own oilstock, I feel like it's going to go up whether I own it or not and I'm trying to buy a house, it's not my war

Answer 10

Totally... why would OPEC do such dastardly deeds?

They artificially raise the price of oil, just so they can get rich. How dare they!?!