Like much of what is happening in government, there seems to be a lack of consistency or planning or forethought or common sense.
Are we empowering America and Americans or seeking more control over both?
“In exchange for approval of Nippon Steel ’s merger with U.S. Steel, the government receives a single preferred share, which includes voting rights and all sorts of control over U.S. Steel’s ability to close factories, invest capital and relocate jobs outside the U.S. This “Golden Share” is a bad idea. Nationalization is a fool’s errand, a slippery slope to fascism’s “government controlling the means of production.” Don’t do it.”
QUINNSCOMMENTARY 
I defer to Will Rogers:
“Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.”
“I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.“
“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.“
“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”
“If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.”
“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”
“About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.”
“Congress is so strange; a man gets up to speak and says nothing, nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees.”
Or, Mark Twain/Samuel Clements:
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
We have the best government that money can buy.
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.
America, so thankful my maternal grandmother and my mom emigrated here 100 years ago this July.
Happy Independence Day.
Jack
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”No pill for stupid” is the right description. The sad thing is all the people in NYC will have to relocate if they are able. Hopefully they won’t bring their ideas of government with them.
As for the golden share , I had never heard of that scheme until Trump brought it up. It does interfere with the capitalist ideal but that seems to be dead now in any case. Between that and the federal judiciary ruling on mergers or against mergers, it seems as if government will run everything. Life in the twenty first century.
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Al Lindquist
yes, agreed–the more government you get the worse things become and this deal is no exception–
can’t wait for the government food stores in NYC headed up by the latest loon on the left–from Whole Foods to “No Foods” if it is like the communist model in Moscow–as well as “free” bus rides and other give away schemes–
there’s no pill for stupid!
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