The post by Mark Finkelstein has this scary headline: Hillary's Oil Industry Threat: 'I Want to Take Those Profits'. Finkelstein writes:

We're all familiar with her statement from 2004: "the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

Yipes! Didn't Stalin take things away from folks for "the common good?" Yes, I think he did. Finkelstein continues:

Speaking today at the DNC's winter meeting [Hillary said]: "The other day the oil companies recorded the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits. And I want to put them into a strategic energy fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy, alternatives and technologies that will actually begin to move us in the direction of independence."

Yep, Hillary is following the same model that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez follows. But Hillary's got bigger cajones. After all, Chavez is a virtual dictator; he can do pretty much whatever he wants to. It takes big one for someone such as Hillary Clinton, running for office in a democratic republic to say something like that. Or simple stupidity. Or both.

Speaking of stupidity, here's a tidbit of info for you from Mexico, the nation that can't get the mass distribution of corn tortillas figured out. PEMEX, the government owned oil monopoly of Mexico, sits on the world's fifth largest known oil reserves. Thanks to the incompetence and corruption of Mexico's federal government, PEMEX is on the verge of bankruptcy. It should be one of the wealthiest companies on Earth. It is not, thanks to Mexico's nationalization of the oil industry decades ago.

The point is, Hillary's statement, "I want to take those profits," should scare the hell out of you and every other person who knows what is happening and what has happened in the past when a major politician says something like that. Grab your wallet and head for the hills.