Democrats Want to Socialize Oil, Healthcare

newsmax ^ | 06.19.08 | Lowell Ponte

[Coleus]

The presidential race this week came into focus, giving voters the sharpest choice since Ronald Reagan ousted the worst president in American history, Jimmy Carter. In the far left corner of this fight is Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, representing the modern Democratic Party.

This is no longer the Democratic Party of patriots Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy. Today’s Democratic Party has been taken over by radicals. As one of the heads of the extremist group MoveOn.org said of this once-great party, “We bought it. We own it.” Democratic leaders leave little doubt as to how far to the loony left their party has drifted.

In late May, Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of Los Angeles, grilling oil company executives in committee hearings, blurted out: “This liberal will be about socializing . . . uh, um . . .” She paused, perhaps noticing that she had let the Democratic Party’s mask slip, then continued: “would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.” On Wednesday this week Democratic congressional leaders held a press briefing to respond to President George W. Bush’s call to lift the moratorium on offshore oil drilling.

Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey of New York offered another way to bring down gasoline prices, now topping $4 per gallon in most of the United States. “We [the government] should own the refineries,” announced Rep. Hinchey. “Then we can control how much gets out into the market.” Other leading Democrats chimed in with threats to confiscate federal leases for which America’s oil companies have paid billions of dollars. Eager to distract public attention from the Democratic Party’s refusal to authorize new areas for drilling, these left-wing politicians on Wednesday spoke on and on about how oil companies had leased tens of

[SandRat]

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Democrats want to socialize EVERYTHING!

[Wiseghy]

I have no doubt that this is the intent. However, everyone present was laughing at Waters display of idiocy. She is either heavily medicated or one of the most stupid members of our Congress.

[Kickass Conservative]

I’ll take STUPID for $1000 Alex....

[SkiKnee]

Its a damn shame that today I think a bigger threat to my way of life comes from Washington DC than from some diaper-headed lunatic jihad warrior.

[justa-hairyape]

So the government agency responsible for building the largest debt in world history, now thinks that it should be responsible for running even more of the economy. Are they going for a debt level of 20 to 30 trillion ?

[Caipirabob]

Democrats Want to Socialize Oil, Healthcare

But they still can't run a primary...

[MarkL]

As one of the heads of the extremist group MoveOn.org said of this once-great party, “We bought it. We own it.” Democratic leaders leave little doubt as to how far to the loony left their party has drifted.

If socialists don't believe in property rights, how is it that they can "own" the democratic party?

Mark

[MarkL]

In late May, Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of Los Angeles, grilling oil company executives in committee hearings, blurted out: “This liberal will be about socializing . . . uh, um . . .” She paused, perhaps noticing that she had let the Democratic Party’s mask slip, then continued: “would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.” On Wednesday this week Democratic congressional leaders held a press briefing to respond to President George W. Bush’s call to lift the moratorium on offshore oil drilling.

Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey of New York offered another way to bring down gasoline prices, now topping $4 per gallon in most of the United States. “We [the government] should own the refineries,” announced Rep. Hinchey. “Then we can control how much gets out into the market.”

I'd just like to remind Waters and Hinchey before taking over an industry that has revenues of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and is quite possibly the most important industry in the USA, that they couldn't even run a fracking restaurant without having to depend on government bailouts for decades! Eventually the House caught a clue and privatized their dining room. But the Senate still insists on keeping control and running it themselves. And they just recently requested $250,000 in order to meet payroll.

For a fictionalized account of what happens when something like the above occurs, see "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. For a real-world example of what happens when something like the above occurs, see Zimbabwe.

Mark

[ricks_place]

Democrats say we cannot drill our way out of the energy crisis. Repeat a lie long enough and it becomes the truth. We absolutely can drill our way out of this mess but we must begin. Let US companies explore, produce, and manufacture oil products.

We cannot nationalize, conserve, regulate, tax, sue, windfarm, solar panel, electric car, our way out of this energy crisis. We must produce oil products. Every delay is another dollar funding our enemies and another loss to today's and tomorrow's national economy. Global Warming is another lie but not yet repeated enough to stick in the face of $4 gasoline.

There was a time where America was "Can Do" in the face of any challenge. The nanny state has made us soft. Let us pray that we are not too soft to recover that spirit.

[Brilliant]

Also casualty insurance.

[socialismisinsidious]

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[justiceseeker93]

Democrats Want to Socialize Oil, Health Care

What else is new? Wait just a few more days and they'll expand their socializing agenda to other industries, and eventually to the entire economy!

[socialismisinsidious]

Wait just a few more days and they'll expand their socializing agenda to other industries, and eventually to the entire economy!

Well, yeah. At least the right people will be in charge so we will have utopia!

Just me starting the weekend with a extra large dose of sarcasm.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2008/06/30/2008-06-30_hospital_video_shows_no_one_helped_dying.html
this scene will be common everywhere if socialized medicine passed