Oliver Stone: US should nationalize oil resources

AP ^ | 7-20-2010 | RAPHAEL G. SATTER

[Dogbert41]

LONDON – The Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows that the United States should follow the example of South American socialists in nationalizing its energy industry, filmmaker Oliver Stone said Tuesday.

[VideoDoctor]

Thank you Oliver ( head up your a$$ ) Stone!

[Spok]

How does Mr. Stone imagine that he and his industry will remain immune from nationalization? Has he ever actually read any history?

[mstar]

because that’s worked so well for the country of his hero, Mr. Chavez.

Stone might want to join his pal Chavez there in Vez. permanently. Deportation for American Constitution usurpers, bring it on.

[mainsail that]

Start with a 99% tax for Hollywood actors.

[Eddie01]

Ruling Class: rool-ing-klas

1: Against the US Constitution and anyone who dare so passionately aspouse it’s virtues.

2: Power Mad and an Enemy of Liberty.

[BitWielder1]

"We shouldn't make this kind of profit on oil or on health or on war or on prisons. All these industries should be public industries."

How come it's OK to get rich selling makeup, scandals, crappy films or crappy music but you are not allowed to get rich providing a truly valuable service or product, like health or energy?
Typical liberal upside-down thinking.

[Mich Patriot]

Oliver Stone is an A$$HOLE!

I prefer Oliver Clothesoff!

[wku man]

From IMDB.com:

"After dropping out of Yale University, Oliver Stone became a soldier in the Vietnam War.(snip)
Returning from the war, Stone did not return to graduate from Yale."

So...he dropped out of college and never returned, not to college anyway, but he apparently did go to "film school".

Not to disparage college dropouts, of whom I know many, but what exactly is Oliver Stone's training and education that makes him an expert in international business/oil production/anything other than making crap movies?

Therefore, why should we give a tenth of a flying flip about anything he has to say?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[stratboy]

He needs to shut up and keep making movies that suck. I challenge anyone to name one movie that this skitzo has made that didn’t make you want to fall asleep in the first hour.

[BARLF]

US should nationalize oil resources

No kidding?

I am stunned ....NOT.

[wac3rd]

I think we should deport him to North Korea and revoke his US passport.

[stanz]

Filmmakers should stick to making films.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

It’s moving towards that. They just can’t use the word nationalize. They’ll do it a little at a time until it’s the same as nationalized, without anyone saying the word.

[Paladin2]

The US should nationalize the Venezuelan oil industry along with the Mexican one.

[Zeddicus]

Heck, why stop there? Housing, food, and clothing are even more immediate necessities - shouldn't these also be nationalized to remove the the evils of profit from them as well?

Unbelievable. Do these communists really think that nationalizing industry removes profit incentive and makes industry more efficient? It doesn't - all it does is SHIFT the profit incentive from the actual producers to the parasitic ruling bureaucracy. How is this any different from feudal totalitarianism?

[andy58-in-nh]

The US should nationalize the film industry.

There's no need to do so when we already have dozens of little Leni Riefenstahls eager serving the Party, and what's more, by scamming the public out of billions of dollars to watch thinly-veiled but gorgeously photographed propaganda.

[b4its2late]

The US should nationalize the film industry.

It kind of already is on its' own. It's all left all the time. Most of the right ones are too afraid to speak up.

[a fool in paradise]

The US should nationalize the film industry.

Hitler would have approved of that too.

As it was, Hollywood shut down production of films critical of Hitler and Nazi Germany in the 1930s and they didn't want to sour Germany as a foreign market for film distribution.

[BitWielder1]

How is this any different from feudal totalitarianism?

There is no difference, that's exactly where we're heading.
Except for the lefts penchant to come up with new nice sounding names for the rejected policies of the past.

BTW, they are already doing housing (via subsidized Fannie and Freddie) and food (via regulations that will drive small farmers out of business).
They haven't quite gotten to clothes yet, probably because a lot of it is made in China.

[Frantzie]

Idiots who watch TV and pay for Hollywood movies enable and enpower these people.