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- thoolou, on 06/18/2008, -13/+67Yeah, because they've done so well with Social Security, Medicare, and the TSA...
Idiots. - Barbrady, on 06/18/2008, -12/+50As if we needed any more proof that Dems are socialist anti-business goons.
- TRMarchesano, on 06/18/2008, -13/+48Life you are completely and utterly confused. Google and Microsoft make tons more in profit margins than oil do. And they're taxed to death! The government should control nothing, look at the social systems in place already and see what bad shape they are in.
you mean to tell me Pelosi and her hacks Waters etc know one damn thing about the oil market? - dtcarson, on 06/18/2008, -8/+37And ironically enough, from today's Common Sense email regarding the government-run Senate dining hall:
"This year the (Senate dining) operation will run in the red to the tune of $2 million....
In the House, though, the cafeterias have been privately run for decades. House staffers never flee to the Senate at lunchtime.
Solution? Privatize the Senate restaurants as well. Senator Dianne Feinstein just pushed through legislation to do that. She doesn't think "taxpayers should be subsidizing something that doesn't need to be." She notes that current restaurant management never even bothers trying to break even, knowing their deficits will be covered.
Feinstein has opponents. Another Democrat, Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, says it's hypocritical for his colleagues to condemn privatization of workers generally, but then "privatize the workers here in the Senate and leave them out on their own.""
But nationalizing oil, somehow, will work.
"The amount the government gets from the royalities is peanuts to the profits the oil companies make. "
Exactly as it should be. I'd rather pay 5 bucks a gallon and have that money go to the producers, the workers, even the Evil Rich Guy who owns the company, than the leeching government who will waste it anyway and had little if anything to do with the product's creation other than making it as difficult as possible.
How do these people get away with even saying this stuff. - netfreehost, on 06/18/2008, -11/+38Once the idiots take control, you will never see any oil. Why take control of others business ? If government can run, just start another company and compete with current ones.
- KennyW, on 06/18/2008, -11/+37The Marxist answer to everything - have government take it over. Having the same bunch of morons who run the post office run refineries will somehow solve the oil price problem? How about this one - Why don't you Democrats allow drilling and exploration, and keep oil extracted in the US from being sold overseas and, build new nuke plants, and BUILD NEW REFINERIES, you nimrods.
- inboxnews, on 06/18/2008, -2/+27CAPS off please. Thank you.
- eth3l, on 06/18/2008, -12/+37Just more proof that the Democrats wipe their ass with the Constition. In addition to protecting civil liberties, the Constition restricts government action. NO WHERE does it allow for the nationalization of ANYTHING.
EVERYONE should be afraid of this. This is a HORRIBLE idea.
Rather than loosen the restrictionso n building refineries they want to run them - ***** STOOOPID - eth3l, on 06/18/2008, -1/+24Coke makes more profit than the Oil companies.
- Kythas, on 06/18/2008, -10/+33This is the first step to a socialist government. The Left has been trying to do this with baby steps for years. I'm surprised they came out in the open with this before the election. I guess McCain and Bush forced their hand.
If anyone needs any further proof of their agenda, I don't know what to tell you. When the government starts proposing nationalizing private companies at the same time it introduces a new ban on assault weapons (H.R. 6257 introduced on 6/12/08, which not only expands the definition of assault rifle to include any single shot center fire rifle, but also makes any magazine or clip larger than 10 rounds illegal) then it's time We the People stand up and take notice. - brothaslide, on 06/18/2008, -9/+30Didn't they try this type of thing in the Soviet Union? - It didn't work.
- swordedge, on 06/18/2008, -10/+31Government owned Oil Refineries is socialism. I vote NO
- inboxnews, on 06/18/2008, -3/+24Wrong again. Oil companies make 4% profit on sales of oil/gas while the government makes close to 20% 'profit' from the sale of oil/gas in the form of tax.
- eth3l, on 06/18/2008, -5/+26No. The government should not have their hand in any of it.
- Troy64, on 06/19/2008, -1/+21You can ruin any point you are trying to make by using all caps.
- eth3l, on 06/18/2008, -3/+22because the lemmings have it engrained in their heads that the government knows whats best for us. (they are called Oamaniacs)
- mdwhite, on 06/18/2008, -10/+28What a sorry lot of simpletons. The Dems once again prove they don't care a fat rat's ass for the common good. All they're concerned with is the accumulation and maintenance of power and unbridled, unquestioned access to everybody's pocket. It's an election year and that's all they give a damn about...not you, me or anybody else who has to live with the stink that they routinely produce. Right about now, I'd like to plant a carbon footprint on Harry Reid's rear end. And they wonder why they've got single-digit approval ratings.
- Troy64, on 06/19/2008, -8/+26It looks like the change the Democrats are looking at the failed policies of the Soviet Union. I originally thought they were just looking at the failed policies of the Carter administration, but this goes way beyond that.
All of my ambivalence about voting for McCain is now gone. The Democrats cannot have control of congress and the presidency. - Kythas, on 06/18/2008, -1/+18They're trying, danogram.
H.R. 6257, the Weapons Ban Reauthorization Act of 2008, introduced on 6/12/08 not only expands the definition of assault rifle to include any single shot center fire rifle, but also makes any magazine or clip larger than 10 rounds illegal. - trocthree, on 06/19/2008, -5/+22Coca-Cola turned a larger profit than Exxon-Mobil......When u account expenditures they both turn slightly lower than 10% profit....Where is the windfall profit tax on Coke?????? The Gov't does so well running our schools, Social Insecurity, Medicare..ect..ect.... Let's give them oil too... Vote for Barrack MARX Obama in 08!!!!!
- foxfire1311, on 06/18/2008, -4/+20Wrong. ExxonMobil actually operates at a loss because of their high tax rates if you only include their domestic revenues.
It's when you include their capital and financial acquisitions and international revenue that their profits move into the billions.
And I can't believe people still believe some guy with a shirt and tie in an office in a building on the other side of the country knows better than YOU about how much YOU need....
Without lecturing you about supply demand....I think you get the idea. - slackin, on 06/19/2008, -2/+18Agreed. I can't stand McCain and I've always voted Republican. I was so ready to switch to the Libertarian party until now. I was ready to let the dems have this election to show this country just how bad they can ***** things up, but if they are taking it this far even before the election, I just couldn't live with the consequences. I'm truly scared now.
- Ridgeliner7, on 06/18/2008, -0/+14Sorry to say, almost the entire leadership was standing up in front of the news media endorsing this!
- Troy64, on 06/19/2008, -1/+15Honestly migtex, is your cap lock key broken.
- Poovey, on 06/18/2008, -9/+22Nationalizing the refineries is not that bad of an idea if you really hate traffic jams and want to ride a bike to work.
- Doofy, on 06/19/2008, -11/+24Stalin would be so proud.
- trocthree, on 06/19/2008, -4/+17Coca-Cola turned a larger profit than Exxon-Mobil......When u account expenditures they both turn slightly lower than 10% profit....Where is the windfall profit tax on Coke?????? The Gov't does so well running our schools, Social Insecurity, Medicare..ect..ect.... Let's give them oil too... Vote for Barrack MARX Obama in 08!!!!!
- sbark1, on 06/19/2008, -4/+17You should take an economics course and instead of believing every idiotic thing you hear from the lunatic left do a little research. Yes, big oil made record profits, but the majority of that profit is reinvested in exploring for new sources of oil and research into alternative fuels since the U.S. has decided that it doesn't want to use the resources it already possesses. Apparently the delicate psyche of the left coast would be damaged by the mere sight (50 miles from shore) of an oil derrick. How exactly will cutting the profits of the companies that produce oil expand the supply of oil? How will nationalizing the oil refineries increase production? Find me one example in history where nationalization has increased output of anything!
- sjl127, on 06/19/2008, -4/+17Confirmed: They're CRAZY and all should be 302'd.
- DerangedPenguin, on 06/19/2008, -3/+16Oh it was a flaming success in the Soviet Union... Leave it to Nancy Pelosi and company to go down that road.
- DerangedPenguin, on 06/19/2008, -3/+15Profits vs. Profit margins.
Economics 101 used to be taught in High School. Starbuck's has more money come the years end than the oil companies. If you look at the profit margins, they are publicly traded companies and their records are available for all to see, big oil sits somewhere in the middle of the Fortune 500 below Coca Cola, Pepsi.
Please enroll in a basic Economics class at your local junior college.
Digging you up so others can see your ignorance. - danogram, on 06/18/2008, -9/+21Great idea, Rep.Maurice (pinhead) Hinchey, just out of sequence... you haven't reversed the 2nd amendment yet.
If you seriously want to seize a US industry, you'd better disarm us first!
Who voted for this guy? - TheInformer, on 06/19/2008, -1/+13How do they get away with it? Simple. They know their electorate was educated in the public (government) schools.
- Ridgeliner7, on 06/19/2008, -4/+16So, can you show me links to your posts or Diggs crying out about Google's "obscene" profits? No, I didn't think so. :P
As for "blood".....what percentage of oil, imported to the United States, comes from the Middle east? - Yobotz, on 06/19/2008, -4/+15Who is John Galt?
- IVillageIdiot, on 06/19/2008, -4/+15He's a "Poet", he doesn't have to reason or make any logical sense out of anything, just say it with enough emotion and it's good?!?!?!?
I love his "argument"; it's from the right (whatever that is) ergo it's BS propaganda. Brilliant deductive reasoning from yet another branch of the brain trust.
Of course he rides his bike to school and hasn't got a real job, so everyone else's problems are totally and completely irrelevant.
"I'M AN ARTIST DAMN IT!!!!! I DON"T HAVE TIME FOR YOU SQUEEKING PEEONS!!!!"
Spoken like a truly duped Marxist stooge.... - SydBloom, on 06/19/2008, -9/+20These friggin pig stalinists have to be stopped! These liberal democrat socialists will kill us all..
- DerangedPenguin, on 06/19/2008, -2/+13All praise the prophet Barack Obama, Allah pee his blessings upon his head.
- DorkAlert, on 06/19/2008, -12/+23What does the Democratic party, Barack Hussien Obama, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, the Kirchners, Silva, Ortega, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara have in common aside from all being in the Americas?
Come on you leftists...If you can guess this one you get a cookie!!!
Answer: Carl Marx
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck....it probably is a duck. Why doesn't the left read history...geez... - inactive, on 06/18/2008, -4/+15This is the first step towards handing the Republicans a majority in both chambers of Congress and the White House. Give THESE people power and the people of the United States will run... quick.
- dlaws99, on 06/19/2008, -1/+12The day seems to be coming when we're forced to exercise the 2nd amendment option...
- swrostmore, on 06/19/2008, -4/+14Does anyone know of an actual transcript of these statements, rather than a single out of context line posted on Fox News?
- DerangedPenguin, on 06/19/2008, -9/+19Oh the irony the left has been calling Bush and the conservatives Fascist, well guess what the Democrats are proving they are indeed the fascist. You think gasoline is expensive now... You ain't seen nothing yet, given the efficiency with which the Federal Government operates I can't wait to hear people start screaming about $10.00 per gallon gasoline.
- scottked, on 06/19/2008, -9/+19Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan - sbark1, on 06/19/2008, -7/+17Well comrades the nationalization of industry begins, it starts with EVIL Big Oil and then it's on to health care. Soon we'll have free speech laws to keep everyone from offending everybody else and Obama will give us all the change we can stand. I'd move to some other western nation that hasn't lost its mind, but I think it's rather too late.
- Ridgeliner7, on 06/18/2008, -7/+16Let's all try shouting this, and see if the nuts will bury it.......
- kingygk, on 06/19/2008, -10/+19I think the democrats are watching too many Hugo Chavez videos!!!
- Ridgeliner7, on 06/19/2008, -1/+10Now, now.....you know, being the little cowards members of Congress are, they will keep the price of gas down around $2.00. Or less. Of course they will subsidize it like they do everything else, robbing the money from our other pocket, but the illusion will seem nice!
- DiggLive, on 06/19/2008, -1/+10Obama wants to spend over 840 billion dollars in his worldwide War on Poverty also. It's scary how Socialist he is.
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