Obamanomics: The Final Blow For GM and Chrysler?

Now, I’m no business tycoon, so maybe I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about.

The way I always understood, when you have a product to sell, you advertise and make it available to as wide a market as possible.  When times get tough, you do these things more aggressively, to maximize awareness and availability.

The Obama Administration, and yes, I squarely point the finger at them, since they are now running Detroit, have seen fit to not only slash the advertising budget, but to kill the contracts of nearly 1900 dealerships.

Again, I don’t profess to be as smart as the Washington elites, but this makes absolutely no sense to me.  At an average of 50 employees per dealership, this move threatens to eliminate about 95,000 jobs.  Many of these dealerships that are being closed are located in small towns across America.  Most of these small town dealerships are the economic and philanthropic engines of these towns.

The left will not admit that this whole car thing is a huge defeat for the Obama administration.  They rammed through the bailout for them, sank billions of our dollars into them, only for Chrysler to go bankrupt anyway, and for GM to presumably follow suit.

I just had an interesting thought:  Many of these small town folk didn’t vote for our Dear Leader.  Hmmmm.  I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

Final Nail In GM’s Coffin?

Talk about building stuff no one wants.

I thought it was a joke when I first heard it today, but it turns out to be true, according to a story in The Washington Post.

GM and Segway have entered a partnership to develop The Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility, or PUMA, project. The new vehicle will have only 2 wheels and room for 2 passengers. It will allegedly be linked up to a network comprised of GPS, sensors and computers so that the vehicle can drive itself (and the Government can know where you’re going at all times?).

This appears to be the direction that President Obama and those liberals who think like him want to take GM.  We all know that lunatic organizations like the Sierra Club have been waging war on the SUV and Pickup Trucks since the peak of their popularity in the ’90s.  I have long held the opinion that the liberals want to put us in motorized sardine cans, and this development appears to support it.

My questions are: How will the single moms with 6 screaming welfare babies do all her grocery shopping with the food stamps she gets at the beginning of the month with that thing?  Is it even safe?  How will this thing fare in an accident with a bus or truck?  Will there be special roads just for these things, increasing the congestion on all the other roads?  Did they even do any market research on this, or is this some kind of publicity stunt to satisfy the liberals?  I think that this thing might have a niche market for the greenies of the world, but I, for one look forward to the day I can afford a Cadillac Escalade.

A Dangerous Precedent: The Firing Of Rick Wagoner

Rick Wagoner

President Obama personally fired GM CEO Rick Wagoner.  I couldn’t belive that this had happened.  Part of me wants to boast: “I told you so!”  Part of me wants to cry.

It seems to me and anyone else with any sense that President Obama’s charge toward socialism is at full throttle.

It doesn’t end there. It seems that the Obama administration not only wants the authority to seize control of companies that have taken Government assistance, but any corporation that they well please.

I have a question for you liberals out there:  Where in the Constitution does the President Of The United States get the authority to fire ANYONE?  Liberals are quick to point out that since GM took a Government loan, the Government should have the right to take such action.  I have another question: Does your car loan company get to tell you what brand of gasoline you can put in your car?  Does your mortgage company get to tell you what kind of food you can eat in your house?  If we’re going to allow this, then will President Obama personally tell these lazy, useless slugs who are career welfare recipients to put down the booze and get a damned job? 

If this reads as me being a bit angry you’re right.  I am livid.  If we allow this to go unchecked, you’d better believe that we’re on the highway straight for socialism.

As it stands, the SEIU has now been emboldened by this move, and are now calling for President Obama to fire Bank Of America CEO Ken Lewis.  In case you didn’t know, the SEIU has desperately wanted B of A to fire Lewis.  Where will it end?

It’s time to wake up, it’s time to take action.  We cannot let this pass silently.  This administration will attempt to take as many of your freedoms as you let them.

Think The Unions Are For The Little Guy? (Or, EFCA? Eff You!)

Do you think that the unions are for the little guy?  The blue collar working guy who just wants a fair wage and a few benefits?  Think again.  They’re after the money.

Case in point: This week’s AFL-CIO Winter Meeting at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami Beach, Florida.  The most affordable room at the hotel is $399/night, and that’s without an ocean view.  You guessed it, the more desirable rooms are far, far more costly.  You don’t REALLY think that the union execs stayed in rooms without views, do you?

I find it very odd the lack of media attention this has gotten.  No, I don’t.  When you consider the skewering that Corporate CEO’s take for the salaries they make, and add in that many union presidents make six figure incomes, some over a half million dollars a year (or more than ten times what many of the rank-in-file members make at top scale), you would think that this would get more attention.

However, there is not a peep from the left or the leftist media.  No criticism for the extravagant use of the rank-in-file’s union dues.  No condemnation for the high incomes of union presidents or calls for these meetings to be held at a more modest venue.  All this during a down economy.  All this while union jobs are being shipped overseas.  All this while dues paying union members fear losing their jobs.  But that’s okay, because these are union executives and we all know how in bed with the left they are.  These execs get pampered at a resort that most rank-in-file members could never hope to stay at for one night, let alone a whole week.

This, ladies and gentlemen is the motivation behind EFCA.  Otherwise known as the Employee Free Choice Act, it has precious little to do with ‘free choice.’  What this act is about is inflating the roles of the unions, and we all know what comes with union membership: dues.  You pay dues without regard for if you actually want to be in the union (so much for ‘free choice’).  You pay dues without regard for your political inclinations, your dues will be used to get democrats elected.  As a former member of UFCW, I know first hand how little the unions do to earn those dues.

So, what exactly is EFCA?  It is a law that the liberals in congress, with the backing of the unions and President Obama, are working on getting passed.  What this law will do is, essentially, allow a union boss to come in to a company and conduct a ‘card check.’  If 51% of the workers at a company decide to sign an authorization, either by choice or coersion, the company has to deal with the union.  Yes, I said coersion… oh, right, the unions have NEVER been known to change a few minds via coersion.  No more secret ballots. No more anonymity in voting.

Back to coersion for a moment.  We all know the mob mentallity that the unionistas have.  If you disagree with unionization, don’t think for a moment that these people will not engage in thuggery.  Don’t think for a moment that you will not get visits to your house, harassing phone calls and threats against yourself or your family.  I am, in fact, risking these very things by writing this article.  Fortunately, as a conservative and believer in the 2nd amendment, I know how to deal with this.

Ladies and gentlemen: If you are on the fence about this, I strongly encourage you to do your homework.  Follow the money.  Read the history.  If you are a union member and think that they are looking out for you, think again.  They’re just like any other business, and are only after your money.

Told Ya So!

So, last night I told you that the LoonyLibs were going to have a fit over the Big 3 Bailout Collapsing.  I told you that they would blame the Republicans, who were merely trying to have the UAW shoulder some of the burden, too. 

I was right.

Because I felt like punishing myself, I tuned in some of the LoonyLibs on the local liberal talk station.  Trust me, it’s never pleasant.  Anyway, I got exactly what I had expected.  Ed Schultz had on outburst on someone who had called in claiming to be a Reagan Conservative; I found that throughly amusing.  Ron Gettelfinger holds a press conference touting an e-mail with no way to trace if it is true.  Very suspect in my opinion.

I’m curious… how DOES one get to have a national radio talk show when they are incapable of having a dialogue with the opposition?

UAW Kills Big 3 Bailout!!!

Finally, Republicans show that they still have a pair.

Read The Whole Story Here

It’s about time that people start standing up to the union leadership.  There is no reason to pay someone $25.50/hr to thread a nut onto a bolt all day.  There is no reason to pay people 80% of their salary to sit at home.  There is no reason to pay people who failed to plan for their own retirement because they thought that someone else would do it for them.

I know what will happen tomorrow.  Stark raving liberals are going to run around blaming the Republicans for the collapse of the deal.  Make no mistake, it was the UAW’s unwillingness to budge that caused the bailout, and perhaps the automotive industry, to collapse.

I hope they’re happy.