linkHillary Clinton: 'Hugo Chavez in a pantsuit' Democratic presidential candidate wants to 'take' oil profits to fund her own projects.
By Dan Gainor
The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow
Business & Media Institute
2/7/2007 11:04:34 AMLongtime Internet users will recognize the phrase “All your base are belong to us.” It’s a comically stupid but popular English translation from a late ’80s Japanese video game. In a nutshell, it is a declaration of dominance – everything of yours is now mine.
That sentiment has emerged in Washington – from Hillary Clinton. The presidential candidate used it when she made her feelings about private property known at the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting.
Clinton must have been shocked that the free market works so well that some Americans actually profit from dealings other than Whitewater. So she decided this sort of thing must end.
“The other day the oil companies recorded the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits. And I want to put them into a strategic energy fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy, alternatives and technologies that will begin to actually move us toward the direction of independence,” she told the audience.
Notice she didn’t say tax the profits. She just said “take.” I shouldn’t be shocked. A left-wing politician wants to take from people who earn a profit and spend it on something that hasn’t made a profit, like much of the alternative energy field.
Naturally, a politician vowing to steal from the public received the typical ho-hum reaction in Washington. Most of the mainstream media ignored it entirely, though about 200,000 people viewed the comment on Youtube thanks to the Drudge Report.
Hugo Chavez in a crusty pantsuit
Thanks for posting this; I missed it!
I suppose this socialist clown thinks the “government” will drill and/or import, refine and distribute all gasoline after she runs all the oil companies out of business. In answer to that I say: name one thing-just one thing-our “government” does well. Other than waste taxpayers money I can’t think of a single thing!