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3/31/2009
I got here before 7 this morning. IF I get started
before 5 then I can take I95 and save 5 bucks in tolls maybe a little more and
still get here before 7. Going home though the turnpike is the only way. I95
really clogs up. There are a lot more trucks on 95 too. They serve hot
breakfast here too. Ahhh, sunrise and biscuits and gravy. It doesn’t get any better. Well
it does, but just not here.
Not much on the news this morning, just talk about Obama
firing the CEO of GM. He had no right to do that. No power. The government does
not run the private company. There was no constitutional
basis for what he did. No constitutional authority to assume the warranty
obligations of GM either. Obama is acting like Mussolini.
We survived 30 years ago when the steel industry died. It
was touted as advancement by many. Let the Koreans make the dirty steel, mine
the coal and run the furnaces. We were going to be a service economy,
developing intellectual capital, it was the information age. The end of bricks
and mortar. Now the Democrats and their handlers, Organized
Labor, are trying to turn all that around. In Great Britain they had
a car industry to rival ours. British Leyland. Morris Garage, Land Rover, Rolls
Royce, Bentley, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Hillman,
Triumph, Lotus, Austin, Austin Healey, and others. Theirs collapsed. The Asian
automakers ate their lunch. Their world did not end. Why is there such a fuss
about saving GM, there was no fuss at all about saving US Steel.
Funny too, in all the talk about GM and Chrysler
failing there has not been one word, not one, about the new car company Tesla Motors. What could they do with a
few billion dollars? Companies die and new ones are born. Obama was all
about change, but he is resisting it, change that is, as he protects the vested
interests that got him elected. It's getting pretty obvious who owns
Obama and the Federal Government. It’s organized labor (and I thought it
was organized crime :-)). Of course George
Soros is making a bundle as Obama drives the market up and down predictably
with his rhetoric. ACORN
is doing pretty well too. But overall it looks to me like Obama is
sinking in his own incompetence. The major media still run cover for him, but it
is only a matter of time before they distance themselves from him and
eventually turn on him. When they do, he will be in real trouble.
Speaking of trouble… Obama's brother in Kenya, the one
living in a box, is not doing so well. Rumor is that he
has cholera. And his auntie is fighting deportation from the
US. I guess they both should have given Obama a few million dollars for his
campaign. LOL There are obviously two kinds of people in this world, friends
of Obama and the rest of us.
Funny too, when a company is doing poorly the government
grants a loan to the private company they want partial ownership and
control of the company. But when times are good and the oil companies
make record profits, the government steps in and takes their profits with a windfall
profits tax, giving the company absolutely nothing in return. As always
with the government, its heads they win and tails you lose. Government is
raw power, force, and unrestrained greed.
Perhaps Alex
de Tocqueville was spot on when he said, " The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that
it can bribe the public with the public's money." Obama is certainly
there.
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