Socialism For Some, Not For You Though

How do you like the GOP mantra of deregulation now?!

That worked real well for the Airline industry didn't it!

Energy trading and Enron. Ring any bells?

How about the GOP led effort to allow commercial banks morph into security brokerage houses? That's worked out just fine! Just think of the names. Lehmen Brothers and Merrill Lynch. Gone!

We can't forget about the worlds biggest insurance company, AIG. Congratulation fellow taxpayer, you and I now own 80% to the tune of 85 BILLION dollars. Here's an idea, since we now own the worlds biggest insurance company, maybe we should insure some of the 47 million Americans who go without and tax our ER's! Nah, just kidding, that would be socialism.

Really though, unregulated free markets go bad. Anyone remember the Savings and Loan bailout? How about John McCain and the Keating 5? Seems ironic that McCain spent this whole past week talking about greed and corruption on Wall Street doesn't it?

Speaking of free markets, I hope you Republicans realize that oil pumped from any U.S. Territory belongs to the company that pumped it, not the taxpayer. They paid for the lease and the mineral rights that go with it. They will put this oil on the World market. That is the free market. By the way, the 5 biggest oil companies in the world already have thousands of unexplored leases on the Outer Continental Shelf.

What should we let the free market control next? The military? Too late. Traditional military jobs are now being contracted to Haliburton. Everything from cooks to laundry is being outsourced at exorbitant rates to the taxpayer. Those profits are funding the election of Republicans.

Kinda funny how the free market works huh? Is that putting Country first or politics before honor?

It's your choice.