Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Obama's People's Car

A Dictator's Prerogative


Forgive me for compulsive dwelling.  I still haven't entirely come to grips with the death of America.  Reports of the first firing squads and dissident roundups will bring it all home.  In the meanwhile,  look at the language  used in America's historically preeminent financial journal. " Two auto companies that have fallen into his arms."  Yeah, like the Lindburgh baby fell into Bruno Hauptmann's arms, but still. What Obama is doing is fascist.
At the end of his Rose Garden explanation yesterday of the new U.S. fuel-efficiency standards, President Obama remarked on the good that can be accomplished when we are "working together." The President may be getting ahead of himself. Watching the unlikely coalition arrayed behind him as Mr. Obama committed the U.S. to an astonishing passenger-car mileage average of 39 miles per gallon by 2016, it looks truer to say we are merely standing together in this adventure, for better or worse.

Mr. Obama's fleet-mileage partners yesterday included the two auto companies that have fallen into his arms, Chrysler and GM, still-independent Ford, the major foreign manufacturers, United Auto Workers chief Ron Gettelfinger, and beaming representatives from the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

All that's left to arrive at the President's new destination for the American way of driving are huge, unanswered questions about technology, financing and the marketability of cars that will be small and expensive.


Mr. Obama said a lot yesterday about the promised benefits of all this for the environment but not much about return on investment for the auto sellers. These public goals notwithstanding, it still looks as if Ford, Chrysler and GM will be making cars they can't sell, or can't sell profitably. That might not be a problem if you're now Gettelfinger Motors. But still-independent Ford has private shareholders and creditors to answer. While GM and Chrysler attempt to meet the new standards with taxpayer money, Ford will have to do so on its own.

  How does history deal with his predecessor fascisti?  There's your answer.

14 comments:

Esteve said...

I don't think Ford can hold out since the game is now rigged against them. Much like Boeing trying to compete with the EU subsidized Airbus.

Anonymous said...

Ja, und vee vill kall it das dumkopf wagon. SIEG HEIL!

Casca

Chuck Martel said...

We can only hope they will make cars as good as the pre-WWII Volkswagen.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

There were only a few hundred made, all going to Nazi's, so who knows? Line production only began after the dictator became rotting, roasted flesh. Beside the point anyway. Hitler's captive industry led the world in innovation because they were highly educated. So much for Obama's chances.

Bill said...

I don't think that Ford will be able to remain independent for long.

Bill
http://willstuff.wordpress.com

Anonymous said...

The Won says we will save money by buying less gas. Less gas sold means less taxes for the gubmint. which means a crisis in road repair. which means a rise in taxes. which means we won't save at the pump. which means that a&$hole lied again.
jr

AnnoyedOne said...

Here's how Fascists should be treated.

Anonymous said...

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Most-Recommended-Photos/ss/1750;_ylt=AtKJggePzGwJoNCOdhLweKRM7dIF#photoViewer=/090517/480/e1fc2ec03cec4644b050994be454f3bd

Questions???

Anonymous said...

The thing that perplexes me most about the automotive industry is why they could create a car during the 70s oil crisis that got 40 mpg and yet here we are 35 years later and suddenly with cheap sheet metal, plastic cars with computers they can't come close? The Ford Fiesta for example.

David said...

We were all concerned that Obama was going to ban our guns and the bastard went after our cars instead...

Scottiebill said...

Has anyone here wondered how much in compensation the Komrade is going to get in his new, self-appointed position as CEO of both Chrysler and Government Motors? Of course, such remuneration would have to be kept in escrow (read "secret and offshore"), probably in the Cayman Islands. Not that I am suggesting that the Komrade would do anything untoward. Not at all, at all. And if you believe that you will believe anything Pinocchio Pelosi says.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Your Notre Dame pic warranted immediate inclusion Anon. Thnx.

Anonymous said...

In the Nov. 1999 election fraud in Florida the democrats showed us that there were very little real protections against fraud at the ground level in spite of the many lofty sounding laws that supposedly guarnteed free and honest elections. It turned out that our faith in the election system was all we really had.
Now it turns out that our entire system of governance was really run on the honor system, with no effective checks, balances, or protections to keep things legal and constitutional.
All it took was one brazen anti-American socialist arrogant to publically ignore his oath to uphold the constitution and the entire system is rendered helpless. Trillions of taxpayer dollars have already been stolen and redistributed to democrat supporters of Komrade Obama. And now an entire industry is being stolen from the owners and investors to be turned into nothing more than a government entity providing a taxpayer financed sinicure for union supporters of democrats and to force recalcitrant consumers into buying only what the government thinks we should have.

BONESHAKER

Anonymous said...

Immediately post WWII, the Brits tried to get the economy going by starting VW production. I was told by a US vet that they used wood for the pushrods, with metal tips at the end. Didn't have enough steel, and it kept people busy turning logs into sticks, I guess....

BONESHAKER:

Is there any possibility of taking the POTUS & Turbocheat to court? Cannot the bond holders cry "FOUL", I am being cheated per the contract, etc...???
From my point of view, there is no authority for what has been going on, except for strong arm tactics.

tomw

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