The “somewhat” useful idiot is being thrown out in front of the bus again with the latest scheme from the leftists in Congress. His name is Congressman Maurice Hinchey, and he’s about as stupid as they come. Problem is, he keeps getting reelected by people around these parts.

Today, Mr. Hinchey, the man who wants to Stalin-like control the radio airwaves (with the “Fairness Doctrine”), is going to propose another good Marxist/Communist idea: Let’s cap gas prices at $2.49 a gallon (Hinchey to outline proposals to lower gasoline prices). Sound good to you? Please think about this for a minute.

We are a democratic republic. Our country was founded as a nation that empowers its citizens with freedom. That includes freedom in the marketplace. We call it capitalism–let the free market control prices and let private citizens own business enterprises–the “capital” of capitalism. Marxism (or Communism), on the other hand, centrally controls prices and ownership of capital. The State sets prices and controls how much of a good or service is available. Russia tried it for about 80 years and you can see what happened to them. Big-time failure.

So what does the good little Commie Hinchey want to do? Set price controls on gasoline. Guess what will happen in pretty short order if we set price controls on gas: (1) The supply will decrease because oil companies will sell it to countries that will pay more for it; (2) Gas in America will be rationed because a decreased supply means not enough to meet demand; (3) The American economy will enter a recession, possibly a depression, because people will stop buying and stop traveling; and (4) Hinchey and people like Congresswoman Maxine Waters (the female version of Hinchey, watch this clip of her from last week) will immediately move to nationalize the oil companies–that is, have the State take them over and run them.

Your guess is as good as mine…is Hinchey really a blithering idiot? Or a crazy-like-a-fox Communist? Hard to say. I prefer to think he’s stupid and doesn’t know it.

Why are oil prices so high? Simple: The enviro nutjob libs have prevented us from drilling in this country for years. They’ve also stopped expansion of nuclear power plants. We haven’t built a nuke plant in over 30 years! In short–we have higher demand and less supply. The population in America has gone up, our oil production has gone down, and places like China and India are buying more oil today than they ever have in the past. More demand + less supply = higher prices. It’s simple economics. The solution? Start drilling for oil in ANWR and off-shore, and build more nuclear power plants–NOW. We need more supply and we need it fast.

What we don’t need are Marxist solutions from people like Maurice Hinchey and Maxine Waters.

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