Reply #15: "and they've vowed to investigate everything else you mentioned in your thread." [View All]

[personman]

"Neither a short-term answer to the present crisis over gas prices, nor the longer-term solution to replacing an unsustainable petroleum-based economy is possible outside of a direct assault on the capitalist profit system and the powerful social, financial and political interests that are behind the policies of Big Oil."

"What is needed is a policy that places social needs before profit interests."

"These short-term measures must be combined with a fundamental change in the financial structure and organization of the energy industry. The American people and, in fact, the people of the world are being held hostage to the profit interests of vast energy conglomerates that threaten the globe with declining living standards, environmental destruction and war. It is necessary to break this stranglehold by nationalizing the energy conglomerates, that is, converting ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, etc., into publicly owned and democratically controlled utilities."

"To achieve this, the working class must rise up and take over the Democratic Party to end the monopoly of the two big business parties and the outmoded and bankrupt capitalist system they defend."

If democrats try to do even half of those things, I'll wear a Larry the Cable Guy shirt around smart people for like a month. Won't happen.