posted by Old Hippie on Mar 31
Obama Doesn't Want to Run the Auto Industry. Yeah – Sure!
March 31, 2009
Feel free to redistribute WITH CREDIT TO AUTHOR
OK — here's my take…
FIAT = Fix It Again Tony. What in the Hell does that company have that is worth GIVING (no money) them Chrysler? So my tax dollars now go to an Italian company? Didn't we learn from the Germans destroying Chrysler earlier in the decade?
Obama doesn't want to be in the car business. Horse Dip! In three months he's Nationalize the banks and an insurance company — and is looking towards health care and utilities. His grandparents were communists. His mother went to Mercer Island — a Communist school. The man really suspected of being his father "Uncle Frank" was a Communist. The three biggest Communist recruitment centers were Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard — all the Chairman's colleges. The man honestly believes (as do most Liberals with Communist leanings) that business/capitalism is evil and that government can do a better job because they're smarter than people. But they aren't. Look at AMTRACK, the Post Office, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — all run by the politicians. They're so corrupt — both the businesses and the politicians that pander to them. Not only can government not run business well — but of the 545 people (both Democrat and Republican) in the White House, Congress and Senate — few have ever had a lemonade stand. Most every Democrat is an Attorney that never worked in the public sector. Name one successful business run by an attorney! They think it is a great idea to have the World's second highest Corporate tax rate — which drives business out of the US. They think it is great to submit a 10-year budget (spending more in Obama's first year than the sum of all Presidents since George Washington) that will give us a $17 Trillion dollar deficit. These are not businessmen folks. Obama doesn't want to be in the car business (so he says) — but he fires the CEO of GM, tells Chrysler to have the Italians run them, throws money at them — and is going to guarantee our warranties. He's appointed a Car Czar! Sounds like he's in the car business to me.
Was our country founded on guaranteeing car warranties and having a Car Czar as a Cabinet position? Was that what taxes are suppose to be collected for? He is also mandating GM (Chrysler is dead so he isn't worrying about it) stop building pick ups and SUVs and build little green death traps. Maybe up in Chicago little death traps sell well — but down here in Texas — we don't buy that crap, well at least the straight men don't. Does anyone else feel like it is strange that people who never operated a candy store are now over riding sane market research and dictating that a company already losing their shorts needs to build little green POS that no one wants to buy?
The American car industry is in the trouble it is in because of a few reasons. Anti-business/Pro-Socialist Liberals will tell you it is because of those running the business. While that's true to a certain extent — it is at least bumped to the third reason why.
The number one reason are the Unions. They are inefficient. The workers work at a snail's pace to get more overtime and they stifle any automation that replaces a union worker. That may be good for those who work in the Union — but not for the person wanting to buy a car or the company that wants build them and be able to compete with others building cars.
The UAW worker makes more money than any other Union's member. They extorted the legacy insurance and pensions by shutting down the automakers with strikes — mostly in the 70s. The automakers agreed rather than close their doors then — but now that those people have retired — they can't afford to pay it and survive. The UAW won't budge an inch — and leadership would just assume see the auto manufacturers shut down — because they're convinced that Obama will pay them from the public treasury.
They have all of the reason in the world to believe that. In Obama's speech yesterday — he blamed everyone in the world (vendors, management, bond holders, Bush, American Consumers, dealers…) for not cooperating with giving a little towards GM's survival (again — Mopar is toast) — yet praised the workers for their sacrifice. Let's face it — after blacks (91% are said to vote Obama), the Union (86% were said to vote for him) was his second most loyal voters — and next to trial attorneys, the Unions were the second largest contributors to his campaign. This great stimulus package stipulates Unions for all of the shovel ready projects. He knows what side to butter his bread on — and the Unions know they have him by the short and curleys.
Next problem to go a long way toward killing the American Automakers — are the unreasonable mileage, emissions, and crash requirements — which cost billions to research. Worst yet — they're a moving target. The auto makers almost meet one set of standards — and the Feds (or a state) will change horses mid-stream on them with more rules and a short time to achieve them.
Nope — if you let the government build the car it will be too worthless and ugly for anyone to want — and too expensive (after greasing the politicians with their hands out) to own without government subsidies. Obama, Pelosi, and Reid know this — and they plan on subsidies as part of the wealth redistribution plan. The Soviet Union once determined the apartment you were entitled to live in and the car you drove based on your importance to the party.
My question to those reading this is — all of these rights and decisions that we are allowing to be taken away from the people and public — will we ever get them back?
For the first time in history — we've had China, France, Sweden, Germany, and the Czec Republic all in the same week warn the US that they're going too far Left. The damn Commies and Socialists (and the ex commies and Socialists) see this — yet we don't.
One by one the government will nationalize the businesses that can't *run — like utilities (you want your Internet run by the government?), health care, and anything else that can get their hooks into. It is time to Throw The Bums Out — all of them Democrat and Republican (currently they're all crooks), create term limitations so that we stop having career politicians, and make them have the same health and retirement as the rest of us. When they have to live like us — them maybe they'll think of us.
*Run — businesses are leaving the US in droves. Under the new tax proposal, businesses headquartered in the US would now have to pay the 35% corporate tax for their foreign subsidies. For instance, Microsoft in Ireland pays the Irish tax of 15% on the profits it earns in Ireland. Now they'll have to also pay the difference (and additional 20%) to the IRS. Not just them — but GE, IBM, Dell, AT&T, GM, Ford, and everyone else listed on America's stock Exchanges. These businesses, like many who have recently moved their headquarters to Bahrain and the Bahamas will leave (as will most of America's wealth fearing redistribution). During Carter — the US had 25% of the world's ships registered here. When they did a tax similar to this — the shippers all moved to Liberia, Montenegro, and the Bahamas. We now have less than 1% of the world's shipping fleet registered in the US. I personally divested myself of my three largest businesses in October — seeing this coming. The IRS is being used as a weapon for both income extortion (which would have made John Ghotti proud) — and to come after the government's enemies (also would have made John proud).
Being apathetic because you don't like politics is doing exactly what the Germans did in 1932 — and they got a guy with a little mustache doing whatever he wanted — taking more and more of their rights daily — until it was too late to do anything.
