Obama would like the oil companies to share their profits with us. Now that is an idea that we can ALL get behind.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Friday announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each, funded in part by what his presidential campaign calls “windfall profits from Big Oil.”

The first part of Obama’s plan is an emergency energy rebate ($500 to individual workers, $1,000 to families) as soon as this fall.

“This rebate will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next four months,” Obama said. “Or, if you live in a state where it gets very cold in the winter, it will be enough to cover the entire increase in your heating bills. Or you could use the rebate for any of your other bills or even to pay down debt.

After eight years of an administration that puts big business and oil company interests first it is more then refreshing to have a candidate who thinks it only fair that a company that is raping America be asked to make restitution. Oh, and perhaps he can make them stop raping us as well.

I have to imagine that the McCain campaign will find itself receiving a deluge of oil company donations in the very near future. These companies absolutely do not want to share their profits.

Oh and by the way for those who cannot tell the difference between this plan and Hillary and McCain's tax break plan, THIS plan makes the oil companies pay and THAT plan asked the government to pay for the overpriced gasoline. The McCain tax break would have hurt the budgets that individual states use to pay for roads and bridges and other infrastructure while Obama's plan simply keeps the oil company bigwigs from getting gold faucets installed on their yachts. Got it now?