California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters is under fire today for a slip up in which she addressed the nation’s top oil executives, threatening to ‘socialize’ the companies and their assets.
FOX News published the video of Maxine Waters’ gaffe. Her response came after an executive said that oil would certainly rise to $5 without intervention from Congress or a substantial decrease in demand. She had asked him for guarantees that prices wouldn’t increase. Maxine responded:
“And guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be all about socializing — er, uh. [Pauses for several moments] …. would be about … basically … taking over, and the government running all of your companies.”
She meant to say "nationalizing," to which the oil industry reps said, "we’ve seen this movie before, it’s called Hugo Chavez, in Venezuela."
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