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To: TimF who wrote (285518)	4/25/2006 6:42:02 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572442

re: re: Accepting that for the sake of argument, the government could be considerably smaller, but still be far larger than any private company. ******** Or not. For the sake of argument. ******** You appear to be arguing only for the sake of argument. You started the "for the sake of argument" thing. I was just making fun of you. re: Find me a company with revenue of two and a half trillion a year and then maybe you would have a point. Even Exxon Mobil is dwarfed by the US government, and XOM and other large companies like GE, MSFT, Intel, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Wallmart, ect. 1 - have to fight off competition, 2 - don't have tax powers, 3 - don't have large militaries and police forces under their control. Maybe not the US, but bigger than all but 25 other countries (and this is 3rd quarter '05)... "IN THE RUSH OF recent news, it's worth pondering that Exxon Mobil's (XOM: 63.95, -0.46, -0.7%) quarterly revenue last week topped $100 billion, with a profit of nearly $10 billion for just three months. Exxon's revenue for the quarter was more than the annual gross domestic product of New Zealand, not to mention greater than the quarterly GDP of all but 25 countries."