If by "like that" you mean moving toward dictatorship, Venezuela just took a major step backward when it voted against Chavez's bid to become president for life.
Huh? Either, I'm missing something, or you are. Chavez has won unlimited presidency. Now, thus far he still has to come up for an election... but the removal of the term limits has been approved. You are thinking of the 2007 election, in which Venezuelians voted down unlimited presidency.
But that video I showed you, where he attacked the press, and had his supporter fight against reporters, was all about this very issue. He waged a war on the national press, and then in 2008, brought back up the repeal of term limits. His war on the press, combined with a massive national campaign, won the repeal. Hugo Chavez can stay in office until he dies.
Obama and "the left" are attacking all aspects of the other viewpoints... what exactly does that mean? Is arguing the other side attacking all aspects? Are you referring to the so called "fairness doctrine", which Obama opposes? Is it only "the left" who are dangerous to liberty, or is it that necessary evil, the government, that has to be watched? It seems to me that there are a lot more authoritarian positions taken by those who describe themselves as "conservative" than by those viewed as liberal.
I flat out don't believe that Obama is against the fairness doctrine. He's lied about everything else, why not this? What happened to cutting the deficit in half like he promised? Instead it's going to be tripled. What happened to that middle class tax cut? Now we're just going to raise taxes.
And have you looked at his statements on the subject?
It's not that he thinks the Fairness Doctrine is wrong, because he doesn't. It is just a distraction... a distraction from what exactly? From opening up the airwaves to as many diverse viewpoints as possible.... sounds like the fairness doctrine, just not called the fairness doctrine.
Instead he's going to have "media-ownership caps, network neutrality, public broadcasting, and increasing minority ownership of broadcasting and printing outlets".... guess what all of those require? More government control.
He is openly planning to wage a war on the media, through an innocent looking, clandestine method of incremental policy. It's almost directly from "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky.
How much of
this little video is accurate, is possible, is happening now? How much is due to the "left", how much to pure commercialism? You decide.
Your Social Security number, was promised by FDR, to never by used as individual ID system, nor be used to track individuals. Now it's used for both. SS is still hailed as a grand success by the left.
Moreover, only government would start doing some of the things in that video.
In the UK, they are both trying to bar overweight and unhealthy people from health service, and trying to provide cash (read tax) incentives to people to eat right, and do exercises. Why? Because government has the power to do that.
See how the government is trying to dictate how AIG is run because they gave them money? See how the people are in favor of it? Well guess what will happen when government runs health care?
As for commercialism, a company would never want to do that. Would you want to buy a pizza for $30 because of all the government mandated fees? Of course not. The pizza place knows that too.
Not to mention, if any shop did try to gain all the information, you'd likely not use them again. And they know that. So the answer is, no it's not from commercialism.
In short, I've never been trampled on by a company. Not once. By government? Heck, last month. But never a company. Because I can control that. I can't control the government.
Quick example. When I first moved into my home, I got phone service through AT&T. I paid a few extra bucks to not have my phone number published. Over the next few months, they started calling me to get me to sign on for their high speed internet service, because I had it previously.
I told them I didn't have the money for it. They called back. I told them that if they didn't stop soliciting me when I pay them an extra fee to not be solicited, I'd cancel phone service. They called back. I asked for a manager, then to transfer to a company rep, then to accounts, and had my phone service canceled on the very call to get me to sign up for high speed internet.
Bottom line, they lost. Now what happens if the government owns the industry, like health care? Then there's nothing I can do, and they know it. I lose.
