CEO's are worth more and do a harder job. I am sick of hearing politicians talking about how we need to help the "hard working American" and then blaming problems on the rich. I suppose a Doctor is not hardworking? A CEO is certainly hardworking. You are punishing success when you penalize the guy who went to school, studied hard, got good grades and got a good job just because he got a good job, and it is unfair.
This is why I was in support of school vouchers.
I just looked at wikipedia and had numbers that were similar to what I posted, so I will stick with them. (I did get these numbers elsewhere though).
From what I understand about Oil Shale and the Tar Sands, the extraction process is different, which can account for the price difference.
The last of the surge soldiers left Iraq July 15th. They had been leaving since March.
There are currently 156,000 US soldiers in Iraq. Of these 94,000 are in the army and 24,000 are Marines. The rest are Airforce and Navy. There are contractors being used to make up the difference in the counter-insurgency.
It is not all for the oil. If it was for the oil we simply could have expanded oil for food and avoided any kind of war. If the reason was simply oil, there would have been no reason to fight.
