Chris Dodd, Marxist Thief
Senator Chris Dodd is a would-be thief:
Co-host Joe Kernan called the Connecticut senator on the idea, asking if he was going to apply the same strategy to other types of businesses. “Are you going to go across industries across the board and decide what Congress thinks is a fair amount of profit and drawing a lines on what’s fair and what’s not for corporations?” Kernan then emphasized the point. “That’s not the way it’s done in this country, senator. It could never be done that way, could it?”
“Yes, it could be,” Dodd said. “In fact it’s been done that way in the past and particularly when you’re trying to get some relief for people out here when the economy is in a tailspin. We’re about to go into a recession here. This is really causing a tremendous dislocation, not only here, but around the world.”
That money, folks, doesn’t belong to some guy with a top hat and a monocle sitting in a penthouse in Manhattan. Those folks are too busy counting up farm subsidy money their friends in Washington, friends like Chris Dodd, are giving them.
No, folks, the money that Chris Dodd wants to take and launder back through the Federal government belongs to you. It lives in your retirement plans and mutual funds. It is stockholder money. Private money. Your money.
Chris Dodd and his band of grubby thieves have decided that you have too much of it and so they’re going to take it and spend it where they see fit. Based on their past history, it’s a dead solid lock that a good chunk of that money is going to people who have dropped hefty checks into Democratic re-election campaign funds and PAC accounts. They could care less about whether that money ever turns a single windmill or builds a solar collector. If they cared a whit about the energy problem, they’d lift their silly ban on offshore oil drilling. They don’t care because it doesn’t affect them. What affects them is money and how much they can extort from you and me to spend on their buddies.
Let’s be clear here. There isn’t a single big oil company in the US that made as much as a 15 percent profit last year. Not a single oil company had as high a profit percentage as your local liquor store, professional sports team, or movie theater concession stand. Pick an industry and compare it’s profit margin to any big US oil company. You’ll find that oil companies do far less “gouging” than most other industries about which we never hear a peep. In fact, the Federal Government – remember them? The guys that Chris Dodd says is really trying to help you? – takes a bigger chunk of a gallon of gas than the oil companies do.
Yet Chris Dodd wants to take more. I say he takes his old, stale, marxist thievery and stick it where the sollar collecter will never find it.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Shut Up and Drill!
- Democrats Came to Give a Lecture, But Went to School Instead
- Who Doesn’t Want Cheap Energy? Plenty of Folks.
Category: Thinking About Energy
