Reply #90: of course

[William Z. Foster]

That is the whole point of having a government. Yes, you nationalize it and then hire the oil people back. Of course. What are people thinking?

What it accomplishes is this - the public welfare and interests are protected rather than BP's interests and welfare. How could it be more obvious?

- How did they get to the moon?

- How are wars run?

- How were emergencies handled in the past? One would think that SOMEONE would think to look up how previous emergencies such as this have been handled.

- How was the infrastructure in the country built?

- Where did public water systems come from? The roads? The canals? The airports? The bridges? The communications infrastructure?

- How does public education work?

- How does mail get delivered?

- How are parks managed? Are we going back to pre-Teddy thinking and should we just scrap the National Park system while we are at it?

Good grief, we have Democrats promoting pure 100% unadulterated right wing, pro-corporate, libertarian propaganda as though they can't even imagine any other alternative to looking at things that way.

Folks, we have a massive challenge of education on our hands. No one could possibly be posting in opposition to a federal response to this crisis if they had even a rudimentary understanding of history, civics, government and politics.

What are they teaching in school these days? The meaning and purpose of life according to Ayn Rand or something? This is alarming. Some sort of whacked out libertarian "ideology" - that is giving it too much credit - is interfering with people's ability to accurately perceive the world, to reason and think critically about things.