TUESDAY, JUL 8, 2014 09:50 AM PDT

Let’s nationalize Amazon and Google: Publicly funded technology built Big Tech

They're huge and ruthless and define our lives. They're close to monopolies. Let's make them public utilities

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Editor’s notes: So goes the headline coming out of the far, far, Left and its featured publication, Salon.

The argument goes like this: Google and Amazon, two very different capitalist projects, used government funded technologies to build their individual businesses. Therefore, the government is within its right, to adopt these businesses as “public utilities,” and give their applied technologies, “to the people” and their representative, the Federal Government.

Understand that Google's two founders, helped to create the necessary technology back in the 1990’s, while students at Stanford. At the time, Stanford was in annual receipt of federal funds in the amount of 4.5 million dollars, some of which funded the technological research in question.

The two students graduated and left Stanford, to set up an infant digital search company in a garage that came to be known as Google. Federal funds, paid to Stanford, helped pay for the initial research, and the results of that research belong to Stanford, not the founders of Google. What they did after leaving Stanford, their continued research and the creation of the business, was all funded with private money.

But the NeoProgressive/Marxists among us, ala H Obama and Elizabeth Warren (S-Mass) and Leftist publications such as Salon, believe that if federal funds were used in research, to any degree, there is a claim for federal ownership. Such is the heart and soul of Marxism.

As a capitalist, all you need to know is this: "payback" for federal "investments" comes to Central Planning via taxes, personal, sales, dividend and corporate taxes. Federal receipt of such collections end the relationship between the Feds and the technologies the Feds funded.

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Googles early beginnings: http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2012/jul/09/barack-obama/obamas-google-claim/

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Some on the Left are talking about a Federal takeover of Amazon and Google. Here is our report.

Let’s nationalize Amazon and Google: Publicly funded technology built Big Tech

They're huge and ruthless and define our lives. They're close to monopolies. Let's make them public utilities

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