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Originally posted by Christien
I think it's completely unreasonable, in fact downright appalling, that Exxon (or any other corporation) has any opinion, say or influence on what American (or any other) kids are learning, watching or hearing in school.
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OK. Let's financially punish Exxon. But who owns Exxon? Near as I can tell about 1/3 of Exxon is owned by pension funds -- which means people like you and me have are retirement savings partially dependent on the performance of financial performance of Exxon. The remaining 2/3's is owned by individual investers which still means people like you and me (assuming that you have money invested in the stock market). So what you're proposing is that you want to take money from your investments and have the government give it to... who?
My own experience is that companies invest in schools for very different reasons then for trying to influence people who won't be able to vote for a few years. Those reasons usually have to do with having an adequate pool of well educated technical and professional employees. This is because if they can't find those employees here in the US, they will absolutely need to hire them from overseas. Part of that educational process is the ability to make sound, logical decisions in the face of uncertainty. Being able to do this generally involves a thorough understanding of science (geology, but also physics, chemistry, biology, etc) as well as the processing of information (statistics and higher math, logical thought, etc). Why would anyone expect them to support a film that flies in the face of all of those subjects???
As far as Gore's and Newt's previous lives and ability to transform themselves into new occupations. I support it. I will continue to judge what they pronounce based on the merits of what comes out of their mouth, not by how nicely they say it, or how many people bow down to it as truth. If the emperor isn't wearing any clothes -- I'm not going to compliment his new outfit!