Exxon Mobil is the second largest  (second most profitable) U.S. corporation.   Last year, 2007, while over half of the U.S. population was struggling to find enough money to buy groceries and gasoline, this company made forty-billion, six-hundred-and ten-million dollars in profits.  ($40,610,000,000)   That's the equivalent of collecting about one hundred and sixty four dollars  ($164)  from every man, woman and child in the entire country.   In that same year, Exxon Mobil paid _______  in taxes to the U.S. government and to state and local governments.   

Three of the five largest (most profitable) U.S. corporations in 2007  were oil companies.  When you add up the combined profits of  Exxon Mobil, Chevron,  ConocoPhillips and  the other oil companies (such as Valero, Marathon Oil, etc)  the numbers in the Exxon Mobil example more than double.   We'll get back to Exxon Mobil in a moment.   Let me shift, briefly, to an analogy

What do the financially wise people do with a portion of their income?  They use the money as an investment with the intention of preserving their assets for future use and for the purpose of making a profit on their investments.  

What do the major universities (such as Harvard or Yale) do when they receive major donations?   Do they spend the money?   NO!   They add the money to their endowment funds.   They invest it and use the profits for the university.   

How do wealthy individual handle their money?   They invest it and live off the profits of their investments.   Why should governments not do likewise?   It's doable.   It's feasible.   It would simply take some time for the shift to be completed.   Here's how to do it.  

What if Governments took a meager three percent of their income and saved it?   What if the government leaders started creating non-profit Foundations --  Foundations  that belonged to and were controlled by the people -- Foundations that were not under the control of  government bureaucrats?   What if the bureaucrats put a meager three percent of the tax  money into those independently controlled Foundations?   What if the funds were never spent, but rather used for investment purposes only?   What if the profits from those investments were distributed as a joint venture between the government agencies who set them up and the Foundation?   Obviously, it would take several years to completely revamp the entire taxation structure, but the results would transform the world.

See the section titled:   Six Simple Steps that will Change the World.²  Readers are also invited to see what Social Security would have been ²  if the government bureaucrats had not stolen the money and destroyed the Social Security system.

Now getting back to Exxon Mobile.   What if a portion of the money that this company paid to the various government agencies (we are suggesting three percent) was put into Foundations that purchased stock in Exxon Mobil?   How long would it take for these Foundations  to create a controlling interest in the nation's second largest corporation?   We can't answer the timing question, but we can unequivocally say that, the end result would be inevitable.   At some point, controlling interest would  shift out of the hands of the money lenders and into the control of the Foundations.   At that point, the corporation would no longer be able to arrogantly take  forty-billion dollars a year out of everybody's pockets while the average person struggled for survival.  

We're talking about the nation's second most profitable corporation and, in this scenario,  David easily outfoxes Goliath, non-violently with six simple steps.   These six simple steps  can be used by any corporation.   They can and will change the world, unless we kill ourselves first with Global Climate Change.²    Imagine what this will do with smaller corporations  --- with corporations that set up their own Foundations   --  with corporations where the employees set up asset-protected retirement trusts  that support the corporate revamping process.   

George Bush & Company keep putting whipped cream on garbage.²   Instead of more of the same and the same thing harder, it's time for a real change!   It's time to create The New Corporate World   http://www.New-Corporate-World.info²