I call for the nationalization of the restaurant serving the Senate. Oh wait, that was a money losing boondoggle so they privatized it to make it work better. Now, what were we talking about again?
Huh?
The Democrat Party has become overtly Marxist.
Hugo Chavez will be proud of you, Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)!
Wow - so this is their solution to high gas prices? Stealing? And it’s so nice they’re giving themselves the power to do it. :D How wonderful.
Well, they want change and Communism would be change.
Wow - so this is their solution to high gas prices? Stealing? And it’s so nice they’re giving themselves the power to do it. :D How wonderful.
Again.
Just nationalize everything in the USSA.
Maybe a Reagan will appear in France someday to take us down.
Heeyaw.
This is a win-win for them.
It’s boob-bait for the bubbas, and if it gets enough momentum to be serious, it’ll tip the financial markets into a panic and touch off a deep recession.
Both are good news for the party of entropy.
The same folks who ran the post office want to run the oil industry - sheesh.
Here for all the world to see is the neo-Marxism wing of the Democratic party on the verge of completely destroying our economy for the sake of destroying President Bush’s legacy. Our country desperately needs to “Drill Here NOW!” and yet the neo-Marxists and evironmental wackos are doing everything to deny Americans gasoline needed to get to work and keep food coming to grocery store shelves. It is a classic communist control tactic to starve the masses in order to destroy any opposition to a communist takeover of our government.
Also 30% of last year’s corn is being diverted from food to 3% of our need for gasoline, at great cost to taxpayers in the form of subsidies. Let’s face it: prudence demands that with this year’s corn crop lost to flood waters in Iowa, no more corn should be allowed to be converted to fuel.
Democrats present themselves as the solution to a problem they created. This was their plan all along.
With the rising costs of flying, they’ll want to take over the airlines too. And btw - my natural gas bill and electricity bill have gone up. Are they going to propose having the gov’t take them over also?
Maybe they should get on the horn to Chavez, Khamenei, Putin, Kim Jung-il, etc and get some pointers.
This is the same bunch of clowns who can’t even run a restaurant, get anything done in Congress, or keep their hands out of the till. And we should trust them with this? Gas will cost us $100/gal. within a year.
I call for the recall of the Deomocrats calling for socialization of our oil comapnies.
How about the government does not get jack until they can run their own business responsibly to the tax payers. They can start with Social Security.
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Drill here! Drill now!
Flabbergasted.
A South American cartoon dictator couldn’t have come up with a better solution.
Give the goobers in the gooberment a chance and they will prove that only they can lose money owning a refinery.
Before we do anything rash like nationalizing refineries, or a government-run single payer health care system, lets see how they do with a government run, single-payer legal system first. :-)
These demokrat clowns are just confirming what we already knew. Their party and Congress are being run by this genius.
If they actually do this, or even continue to suggest it, it may well be time to grab our pitchforks and head to Washington DC. This idea is so dangerous, so destructive, that we should and must be willing to do whatever is necessary to stop it.
In effect, if Obama gets in office, you'll see nationalization of health and energy within the first two years, and the Federal Government essentially directly controlling 51% of the economy. We WILL be a Communist nation at that point, and the takeover will be complete.
The Central Government will be directly responsible for over half our GDP - one of every two dollars spent in this nation - effectively controlling the majority of this land, and you can bet the rules will be quickly gamed to keep the Donks in perpetual party as the Central Party.
Of course, a few FReepers can be smug in their knowledge that they "stuck to their principles" and didn't vote for McCain. Thank you, comrades!
. Lets see how fast the refineries register their headquaters in another country with their functional equipment, leaving the old stuff here. Halliburton moved to Dubai because of the RATs. They have to leave on those great big freighter ships.
“They (Republicans) have a one-trick pony approach.”
Yeah, it is called saving this country. Also nationalizing the refineries will not produce another drop of oil. These people are complete morons.
Dear Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY),
Feel free to have the government raise the capital by means other than taxation/fees and use that money to build as many refineries as possible. Buy your oil on the open market, refine it, then sell it at your own stations. You may not subsidize the costs nor ignore laws, environmental or otherwise, that constrain private companies. Also, you may not pass laws that benefit the government unless those laws also benefit private businesses.
You give that a try and let us know how it works out. Compete in a free market and see just how fast private enterprise kicks your lazy bureaucratic asses. Stupid twit.
Also, if your “business” fails, we reserve the right to exile you and anyone involved to whatever socialist nirvana (cuba, n korea, venezuela) will take you.
Bad. Very bad. This is nothing more than a ploy to usurp more power and control over the people. If the government has control over the flow of oil, who is to say that it cannot use that leverage as a means of control or extortion. This will be the beginning of a soviet-society...a neo-Marxist era
Oh yeah, government running the refinieries is really going to get things straightened out. Always does. Look at the DMV. Your local metro system? Health Care? Border control?
The refineries are NOT the problem. They are running at near capacity. We are importing gasoline as well as oil because we can’t refine enough oil. We need more refineries, and we need to reduce the number of fuel blends from 20+ to 2 or 3.
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of industries.”
— Thomas Jefferson, 1824
whatta they think they are?
stalin or hitler?
It is time!
I don’t want to hear anymore BS from anyone on FR about “oh, there are some good democrats... like Zell Miller”. There are NO good democrats.
The democrat socialists are the party of EVIL in the USA. They can no longer be tolerated - they MUST be DESTROYEDby whatever means necessary.
I will NEVER, EVER, vote for ANY democrat because they belong to the party of evil. If they have ANY decency remaining, let them declare themselves as CONSERVATIVES. Same with republicans. There are few conservatives in the republican party either.
The democrats have become communists/socialists, the pubbies have become liberal democrats, what’s left for CONSERVATIVES?
We have a LOT of work to do, boys and girls. It will not be easy, it will not be pretty, and it must be done if we are going to save our Republic.
I wonder which oil company will become the first American YUKOS...
The Dems seem to chant this phrase. It's an agitprop. Yes you can Markey. Where do you Dims believe where all the oil comes from, Santa Claus?
Nationalization...their anwser to everything!
They’ll never learn.
BUILDING new refineries and OPERATING them is the real answer!
My God, never in my lifetime did I ever expect to see one of the houses of Congress propose nationalizing an industry. This is truly frightening.
With the inevitable unions, featherbedding, inability to fire anybody, lack of fundamental market forces determining where investment should be made, political paybacks governing investment choices, the government wouldn’t be able to deliver any oil at all. I can’t believe anybody in the US would believe the government could do a better job than the private sector.
They want their own PEMEX to suck. No surprise.
Revolution ~ The Beatles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87yq372R4Ts
If these jokes want to take something over they can run the service stations that nobody wants. It would be nice to have a government employee to shout at when we get our gas.
The NAZI Party exposes itself for who they are.
If you like $5/gal, Thank Congress in Nov!
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