I also would love to see these “Top 10″ companies in relation (i.e., on the same vertical scale) to the US Federal Government, perhaps with “revenue” in blue with the trillion-plus-dollar deficits in red.

Or would that ruin the attempt at demonizing successful businesses? (When did it become shameful to provide a useful good or service while still making a profit? Wasn’t that the whole point of the “American Dream” – being better off than the preceding generation?

Of course, who needs facts in context when you have a chart?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics