Posted on 06/17/2008 5:48:32 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 29% of voters favor nationalizing the oil industry. Just 47% are opposed and 24% are not sure.
The survey found that a plurality of Democrats (37%) believe the oil industry should be nationalized. Just 32% of voters in Barack Obama’s party disagree with that approach. Republicans oppose nationalizing the oil industry by a 66% to 16% margin. Unaffiliated voters are opposed by a 47% to 33% margin.
Nationalization is the process by which the government assumes complete control of a private industry and its assets. It has been a common practice in totalitarian dictatorships, but as recently as 2001 following the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. government nationalized the private airport security industry and moved it under the Transportation Security Administration.
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Just like everything else you could poll on. How is almost half "just"? How about a headline "Only 29% of Voters Want to Nationalize the Oil Industry"?
How long will it be before we are effectively living in Venezuela, with BO as our own personal Hugo Chavez?
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, this is truly scary.
Personally, I think a lot of it is the Mexican influx. They don’t have as much commitment to capitalism.
47% is close to half. The other half don’t even know what they’re asking for.
I remember in the fifth grade, my class had a Substitute Teacher who threw away our lesson plan to teach us about Communism and Karl Marx. After five minutes, we all thought it sounded like a great idea. After about an hour, we all figured out that the whole thing was stupid, and it would never work. By the end of the day, the Sub was yelling at us so loud, the teacher came in from across the hall to ask if everything was OK.
The next day, we had a new substitute teacher.
Which is why Ignorance is the most expensive commodity for which we pay.
Great thread. Since BIG GOVERNMENT is already NATIONALIZED perhaps we should capitalize on it. Throw ALL incumbents out?...or extinguish one of the parties...then we will see a revolt against the remaining clowns.
“How long will it be before we are effectively living in Venezuela”
We are getting there. This is a time when the oil companies should be making massive investments in oil productive capacity, yet they aren’t because of the constant threats from the Democrats against the industry. In fact, just last week Exxon announced that it is getting out of the retail gasoline business, selling all of its US gas stations.
A direct result of denegrating and, through force of law, removing the teaching of the Christian worldview from our education system.
God is very clear - we are a creation in His image, and we have dominion over the earth. Everything here was created for our use.
http://notesontheholybible.blogspot.com/2008/03/notes-on-genesis-5-mans-dominion-over.html
“How long will it be before we are effectively living in Venezuela”
We are getting there. This is a time when the oil companies should be making massive investments in oil productive capacity, yet they aren’t because of the constant threats from the Democrats against the industry. In fact, just last week Exxon announced that it is getting out of the retail gasoline business, selling all of its US gas stations.
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Exactly. There are plenty of reasons why there are very few investments being made in the energy infrastructure in this country.
That's why real 'Mercans favor Fascism over Communism.
Hillarious that a bunch of 5th graders figured it out in an hour,
and “grown up” lefties still haven’t figured it out.
Of course, they have other agendas - like, not wanting to work for what they desire, or to control other people’s lives.
This is due in part to the failure of the "Newsmedia" to inform the public truthfully and in part to the deterioration of U.S. colleges and universities into Leftist, Marxist madrassas. The descent of the free press into a Leftist propaganda machine is one of the most ignominious and dangerous events of recent history. The perversion of U.S. academic institutions is another.
If the U.S.A. should sink into a Marxist, stalinist hellhole, these two events will be a large part of the reason.
Were it not for these two events, Barack Obama would not even be under serious consideration for the Presidency of the United States.
What, in your understanding, is the difference?
They both involve centralized control, collectivism, and nullification of individual liberty. Most "progressives" of the pre-WWII era FAVORED fascism over our system, openly admiring the Italian model.
The left has the Soros billionaires and the right has billionaires that spend their money on...I don't know, but it isn't fighting back. Sad but true without money it stays down at the grass roots level. This means a lot of people like Freepers are doing what we can but we are having our hats handed to us.
Yeah, but remember: half the population has an IQ below 100.
Our party system has somehow evolved to a point where the alignment is on rationality, logic, pragmatism, reason. Pubs use it. Pubs use those themes; Dems don't - they use emotion, wants, desires. Robert Bork talks about this in one of his books quite well. With near half the population no longer swayed by logic, it is scary and alarming indeed.
Dems can break laws, break the constitution, whatever, to get what they want. To pubs and their voters, they scream and yell while, literally, murder is committed. To dems and their voters, its deaf ears... because they get what they want.
Good point, but even that is scary.
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