“Lock, Stock, and Barrel”
by James Glaser
June 11, 2008

Lock, stock, and barrel means the "whole thing," and if it is said that somebody owns you lock, stock, and barrel, that means they own all of you, and you are going to do their bidding no matter what.

Here is something I heard today on the radio about oil companies: "The greatest profit by any company in the history of the world." That is what the oil companies are making today on their fuel sales. The talk of supply and demand is just that, talk. There are members of Congress who are trying to rescind the 17 billion in tax breaks oil companies get today. That amount would be written out in a check as, $17,000,000,000.00.

That is right, we (you and I, and every one else in America) are giving the oil companies seventeen thousand million dollars every year in tax breaks, and at the same time, the oil companies are making the greatest profits any industry has ever made in the history of the world.

Now I am a Republican, and it pains me to tell you that it is the Republican side of the aisle that is blocking this roll-back in tax breaks, and all I can figure out is that those Congressmen and Senators that are blocking this are owned lock, stock, and barrel by the oil companies.

There is nothing wrong with our government giving tax breaks to an industry that needs them to stay competitive and to keep their employees working, but to keep throwing money at the oil companies in 2008 is an out and out crime.

Of course today, when members of Congress are owned lock, stock, and barrel by the oil companies, the common sense that would dictate rescinding these tax breaks can not be found in Washington in enough of our elect officials to get this tax law changed.

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