Government Assaults ‘Big Dogs’ - To Advantage the Biggest Dog of Them All
T-Rex 'Stan' Stands in Front of Google HQ. Represents Google as the 'Biggest Dog.' |
On its face this is patently absurd. More government - taxes and/or regulations - raises the costs of everything for everyone. The Big Guys are far better equipped to absorb the punishment - while the Little Guys are pummeled into un-existence.
Then there’s the Crony Socialism - it’s not Crony Capitalism, because it has very little to do with capitalism. Wherein Big Guys - who have the wherewithal - bend government policy to their will. To their advantage - and against that of the Little Guys seeking to compete with them. For instance:
Crony Socialists Looking to Ban Online Gambling Don’t Seem to Realize It's a WORLD WIDE Web
Obama Donor’s Firm Hired to Fix Health Care Web Mess It Created
Obama Crony Wins Contract to Give Phones to Jobless
Obama’s United Auto Workers Bailout
President Obama his own self recently said this:
Rather than complaining about additional suits to again fend off the Leviathan - perhaps the Leviathan should pull in its tentacles. Especially when it has already had two lopped off by Courts. As Jonah Goldberg has said: Don’t just do something - stand there.
But wait a minute - which “Big Dogs” does Wheeler mean? The Internet Service Providers (ISPs) government intends to yet again assault.
To be sure, Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, et. al are big companies.
But they aren’t looking for Crony Socialist favors from government - merely protection from its monumental overreaches.
Then there’s this plucky little upstart for whom the Obama Administration is fighting.
Google has spent the last decade-plus shoving Net Neutrality down our throats.
The relationship really is that syrupy:
No matter how the FCC rules next year, Google can move forward with fiber rollouts, even if they're restricted, because it will still be earning far-healthier revenues from carrying content.
Google's two-pronged strategy has been obvious for a long time, but lately it has looked genius given the net neutrality battle….
(I)t’s a strategy only a very large company could undertake….
“It’s a strategy only a very large company could undertake” - using government to make the marketplace untenable for anyone but themselves.
Creating for Google a for-all-intents-and-purposes government-mandated monopoly.
The very thing the Obama Administration - with its gi-normous Internet overreach - alleges it is attempting to address/prevent.
To paraphrase George Orwell: All monopolies are equal - but some are more equal than others.
To paraphrase Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Google will be a son-of-a-bitch monopoly - but it’ll be our son-of-a-bitch monopoly.
“Don’t be evil.” Enjoy the Crony Socialism, All.
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Seton Motley is the President of Less Government and he contributes to ARRA News Service. Please feel free to follow him him on Twitter / Facebook.
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