(08-11-2014 10:57 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  The courts could blow all of them up...or Congress at some point. The future is unclear.

If this is representative of the arrogance with which they intend to proceed, then you can count on the courts stepping in. What they are doing is a setting up a monopoly and then following it up with colluding to set the barriers to entry so high in their market that no outside competitor will ever be able to enter (plus, even if they could afford it, they would have to get "invited" to enter).

He may not want socialism, but what he's talking about has been illegal in this country for quite some time - just ask Standard Oil how that worked out for them.