US Government Interferes With AT&T/T-Mobile Deal

J.J. Jackson | August 31, 2011 

Did you know that the Constitution gives our federal government the authority to prevent two companies from merging? Well, actually it doesn’t. But when you have liberals who don’t care about the Constitution running the government and a populace that is apathetic towards keeping government within it’s bounds, anything is possible.

Today, Obama’s Justice Department decided to block a deal between AT&T and T-Mobile for the most frivolous of unconstitutional reasons. Reason number one is that competitor Sprint did not like the deal. Boo freaking hoo. Reason number two is that the Justice Department thinks that the merger will reduce competition and raise prices. Too bad there is no power given to the Feds to care about either such thing.

What is really weird though is that the Justice Department’s reasoning for blocking the deal might actually be actually moot. It might be moot because T-Mobile has already expressed concern that they cannot compete against the larger carriers and their parent company is not seeking to invest any more money in the venture. So, basically, T-Mobile might go away anyway thus reducing competition and raising prices because of that anyway.

Don’t try and understand the liberal mind. It is an impossible task.

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