GM=General Mess
General Motors is a mess, a mess created by the free market - and not one that the right can blame on the government. Now, what should the government do? Stand idly by while the whole thing collapses and takes an entire American industry with it? Or step in, invest a lot of money and order it to restructure into a competitive company?
Of course, Obama chose the latter and most agree it’s the right thing to do. The new CEO of General Motors says it’ll allow the company to come back stronger. The conservative PM of Canada says his government’s similar investment in GM there will save the Canadian auto industry.
I know many say we should just let it collapse (serves the unions right), just as we should have allowed the banking and insurance systems to fail. I guess the thinking is if we all just suffer enough for four years a Republican will certainly be elected in 2012. Sounds like the right really wants not just Obama, but America, to fail.
I also find it funny, if it weren’t so sad, that many are so disgusted by our government taking over a failed company, but don’t bat an eye when it takes over another country.
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:13 pm
It’s just like biaspartisans to focus on what others have done and deride it as if they themselves haven’t done anything similar and worse. {counting on that the americans don’t have the capacity to Remember} It’s typical to worry more about looking better than the opposite party and trying to come out on top than to pool together and come up with some solutions. Now, if the Obama-phobes are quite done complaining about his performance while not pulling their own weight, Backseat Driving and making a mess of the Upholstery basically, we’ve got an America to Inspect and Repair until it’s Roadworthy. {Destination: the Future.}
“If you’re not part of the Solution, you’re part of the Precipate.”
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Yeah, Joe and BarnCat, the feds did a good job with Amtrak, Penn RR, Freddie and Fannie, the Post Office, and I could go on and on.
Bureaucrats and politicians know next to nothing, if not nothing, about running a business with a profit. Sure GM and Chrylser failed inpart due to poor management, but add in the govt standards and tinkering and the greedy unions who ran the prices up on cars (while not ‘working’ like normal people, other than govt types…. This is just the latest debacle. Can’t wait to see it out.
June 5th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
I’ve heard of some recent Union tactics, they struck me as highly immature and downright creepy. I mostly support the Principle of a Union but not some of the “modern methods”. Those misrepresent and do a disservice to those people the Union Claims to represent. Look to the Union Heads for those who head the unions. Look to the previous administration for problems that began during their time in office.
June 15th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I see you can blame President Bush but not President Obama. I have seen close up how well government works no matter what of the two parties is in charge and neither work together as they mst be on top. We need to wake up and get a third party going to keep politicians honest and term limits to keep favortism down. The problems we are facing started a long time ago and blaming will not solve a thing, but government control is never a good answer. Banks, cars, and health care and this is a way out of this mess to have government control? Name me a branch of government that does the job as they promised. None. We need to get out of the two parties and their retoric and get America working and producing and paying the way for a samller government.