HOW THE FUCK DID WE GET HERE?
The Obama administration asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, to step down and he agreed, a White House official said.
On Monday, President Barack Obama is to unveil his plans for the auto industry, including a response to a request for additional funds by GM and Chrysler. The plan is based on recommendations from the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, headed by the Treasury Department.
The White House confirmed Wagoner was leaving at the government’s behest after The Associated Press reported his immediate departure, without giving a reason.
The President of the United States of America is literally forcing a company to fire their CEO so they can get more bailout money instead of letting them fucking fail. HOW GOD-DAMN MANY LINES DOES THIS ONE ACT CROSS? Buying union votes, tampering with private industry to such an astonishing degree, strong-arming, robbing taxpayers...the list goes on and on and on.
Jesus Christ. I hardly know what to think anymore. I can’t believe people are willing to accept this as normal and necessary and the way things should be happening. You’d have to be some kind of dumbass to think this was a good idea. Regardless of how incompetent Wagoner may be, it is NOT the President’s place to staff a company. Fuck, it;s not the President’s place to bail them out over and over again.
This is ridiculous. It’s beyond ridiculous. It’s criminal, and we should not accept this as the new way of doing business in these United States.
Maybe it’s just petty, but I find the distinct lack of pre-and-just-post-election arrogance by Obamanauts lately to be kind of amusing. Funny how the Emperor is never wearing any clothes no matter what sect of the Great Political Machine he is allied. You kids with the (D) registrations getting the point yet?
It really is us vs. them, only the us is all of The People and the them is the political ruling class looking to treat us like Tijuana street hookers. Only without the whole ‘paying for it afterward’ part.
Is there a single rational, non-moonbat Democrat in the country left who can look at the economic news every day and still defend Obama’s policies?
I’d love to hear a reasoned explanation for destroying so much of the country’s wealth so quickly. For concentrating on things that either aren’t broken or could wait while the financial system in this country collapses.
Conspiracy theorists say he’s doing it on purpose, that a total collapse is the only way to move toward a “fair” system where everyone gets their fair share of a communal pot. Well, that imply isn’t the United States of America at all. In fact it;s decidedly unconstitutional, but that doesn’t seem to matter to Obama’s administration any more than it mattered to Bush. I don’t want to live in a partial, half or fully socialized country. Do you? Have you really thought about working as hard as you do right nwo and being forced, literally by threat of jail, to give up half - or more - of your earnings to pay for “the poor?”
Is this really what you voted for? Was this the change you wanted? How can you defend or justify this worse-than-Carter economic disaster?
BTW, if you’re a moonbat - and you damn well know if you are, or if I would consider you one - save your breath. I’d like to hear from reasonable people that self-identify as Democrats.
This is why.
“It’s not about fixing the economy; it’s about proving Reagan wrong.” It’s about proving that an enlightened government is superior to a country led by tens of millions of individual sovereign decision makers.
Yep. Doesn’t matter that we all know for a fact that it is not a sustainable form of government. Common sense alone tells you what a disaster we have on our hands. If you’ve ever decided what bill not to pay in a given month, or taken a cash advance off Visa to pay MasterCard, you know. None of that matters. They just want to try to prove Reagan (he’s representative of the movement, it’s not necessarily Reagan himself) wrong and train a new generation to expect Uncle Sam to deal with everything.
That’s the part Bob Krum missed. This is also about training the next two or three generations to be dependent on the federal government. Hence the maneuvering to belittle and marginalize any state government that doesn’t want a federal bailout. If no one expects the federal government to actually be small, there’s no reason to try to make it small, is there?