Nationalizing Industries

The libs are feeling their oats. After all, they control two-thirds of the Federal Government and reasonably expect their messiah to seize control of the third in the next election, why not begin explaining what you will do with all that power? Like nationalizing the oil industry and the internet for starters.

Should the Internet be owned and maintained by the government, just like the highways? Vint Cerf, the “father of the Internet” and Google’s Internet evangelist, made this radical suggestion while he was sitting next to me on a panel yesterday about national tech policy at the Personal Democracy Forum.

…I tried to press Mr. Cerf on how exactly such a scheme would work without making Internet service even less competitive than it is today. He offered that the government could put the actual running of the service out to competitive bidding. It’s still a bad idea.  ~techcrunch.com

There’s no better way to destroy something than to nationalize it. Still the libs see this as a great idea most of the time and they’re getting more vocal.

Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.  ~foxnews.com

HotAir has video of Maxine Waters and another rube Dem explaining their penchent for pure marxist thievery. Wow. Jaw dropper. Democrats believe this?

Hugh Hewitt quotes James Madison

“In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.  Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. . . . Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.”

Shoved into the internet 'tubes' on June 25, 2008, by Hegemonic Pundit, under the following categories: 2008 election, 21st century socialism, anti-capitalism, culture of corruption, democrats, higher taxes, hugo chavez, idiotarians, leftists, liberal agenda, liberals, tax increases, the left

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