How Come Big Companies Get Their Way?

Well Californians are set to vote on whether or not to keep it's clean air law that regulates gas emissions. It's a state law, not an American law. It only impacts people who live in California or, I suppose, visit there. It sounds like a very reasonable plan, and Californians have long been on the cutting edge of things. I guess that's why they're considered liberal or moderate. Anyway, there's a lot of money being channeled into this fight, against the measure. And an awful lot of it is coming from out of state. Now who in the world would want to change and/or influence the vote if they don't even live there? Well, if you haven't already figured that one out, it's out of state oil companies. See, tighter rules on emissions hurts all oil companies and they don't like anybody putting their hands in oil company pockets. After all, that's where they keep some of those record breaking profits. I say 'some of the profits' because the pockets aren't big enough to hold all the profits. So, what's a voter to do? My suggestion is to tell the oil companies to pound sand. Of course, I tell the Democrats to say the same thing to Republicans and vote for keeping the Bush tax cuts for everyone making less than $250,000, but let them run out for the wealthy corp. execs and wall street. It's time to stand up to these ultra rich trying to run things for their pockets by taking it out of our pockets. Let's stop running scared and start being fair-minded, thoughtful and normal once again.