> Senator Obama wants to give every household $1000 to be funded from
> "windfall" oil company profits.  According to the Census Bureau, there
> were 114 + million households in the US in 2006.  That means paying
> out better than $114 billion ("with a B") dollars of oil company
> money.  The Big Five oil companies had $118 billion in total profits
> in 2006.  That would leave $4 billion to split between the five
> companies.  That doesn't even come close to the collective $30 billion
> those companies made in 2002 when no one was moaning about windfall
> profits?  What about those retirees who are counting on their
> ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Conoco Phillips or Chevron stock to generate
> dividend income for them to live on?

> Do you *want* big government micro-managing *your* company to this
> degree?