‘We The People’ have decided to apply a misguided dictatorial approach to building cars to try to save the companies. This is the same approach the U.S. government has applied so well to all our other ventures that have worked out so well.
Let’s face the truth – since no one in Washington or the media wants to talk about ‘the truth.’ The reason the CEO and several on the board got the boot was because they were not retooling to build cars no one wants to drive fast enough to suit the Obama Administration. That should be an indicator that Washington has no idea what they’re doing when it comes to building cars. You have to have a market for the cars you build. Americans will buy trucks and SUVs, but those little golf cart-looking cars are still not something we want.
Ah, so rather than build the cars we want, being the government, they will change the playing field. Last week when the Congress passed their Omnibus Land Bill placing two million more acres (land masses larger than the size of Montana and Wyoming combined) of potentially oil producing land off-limits to development they made the U.S. more dependent on foreign oil and as a result of not allowing oil exploration we are also cutting the amount of oil on the market which will cause the price of oil to go up. Investors Business Daily covered that issue today in the attached article. http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=323305469830589. Last year when the U.S. announced opening those lands the price of gasoline began dropping from nearly $5/gallon to under $2. Closing them again is going to have the opposite effect. The thinking in Washington is that by creating artificially higher oil prices people will buy the cars the Left and the current administration want to force us into driving. Oil companies will be back to being demons again and Obama will look like he knew what he was doing. And he did. He manipulated the markets and lied to the American people so he and his ilk got what they wanted all along.
So now we understand how the government is going to get us to buy the cars they plan to build at GM. They are going to lie to us and manipulate us into them. A look at the Treasury report on GM indicates there are 20 cars GM makes that are turning a profit. Eleven of those are SUVs and ALL of those have to be dropped as part of the plan to save the company.
Added to this is the notion that the United Auto Workers knows what’s best for the car industry. Let’s dispense with that farce right now. Unions are there to protect their members, collect dues and obstruct management. Throw that into the present mentality in Washington to cave to the unions at every turn and you have a better picture of what happened to the CEO of GM. His very public firing would fit into the image of a ‘revenge example’ as to what happens to people who defy the U.S. government’s wishes. It set an example for other CEOs who show less than enthusiastic support of the policies of the Obama Administration and it take the head of one of the biggest names to oppose the UAW and puts it on a pole for the whole auto industry to see.
Managers are on their own in the business world. They’re the cowboys. Union members – not all, but enough – prefer the herd mentality. The unions enjoyed being told they have made ‘sacrifices’ in Obama’s speech yesterday when nothing could be further from the truth. The UAW talked about concessions at the hearings in front of Congress, but when they got back to Detroit the told the car manufacturers to go to hell. So where are the union sacrifices? In truth, there are none – but why let the truth get in the way of a good speech… Managers, on the other hand, are the ones facing down having to make sacrifices. Their jobs will be cut while Washington will fawn over the union members who have had a large hand in the problems facing the automotive industry. As this takeover of the private sector continues more and more managers will have their salaries adjusted to fit some outline Barney Frank feels fits where he wants it and more will face elimination as sacrifices to unions or the ‘taxpayers.’
For the first time in several decades GM was finally building cars that were hot and could compete with imports on all levels. Now Washington, in their desire to control Americans’ choices, are going to force GM to make cars no one will want to buy, change the playing field by manipulating oil prices forcing Americans to pay more for our gasoline and handing the ‘car war’ to the foreign car manufacturers – because Americans will buy imports if they are the only ones offering the cars we want to buy – and totally destroy the American car sector.
Thanks, Washington, for turning out the light at the end of the tunnel.
Let’s face the truth – since no one in Washington or the media wants to talk about ‘the truth.’ The reason the CEO and several on the board got the boot was because they were not retooling to build cars no one wants to drive fast enough to suit the Obama Administration. That should be an indicator that Washington has no idea what they’re doing when it comes to building cars. You have to have a market for the cars you build. Americans will buy trucks and SUVs, but those little golf cart-looking cars are still not something we want.
Ah, so rather than build the cars we want, being the government, they will change the playing field. Last week when the Congress passed their Omnibus Land Bill placing two million more acres (land masses larger than the size of Montana and Wyoming combined) of potentially oil producing land off-limits to development they made the U.S. more dependent on foreign oil and as a result of not allowing oil exploration we are also cutting the amount of oil on the market which will cause the price of oil to go up. Investors Business Daily covered that issue today in the attached article. http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=323305469830589. Last year when the U.S. announced opening those lands the price of gasoline began dropping from nearly $5/gallon to under $2. Closing them again is going to have the opposite effect. The thinking in Washington is that by creating artificially higher oil prices people will buy the cars the Left and the current administration want to force us into driving. Oil companies will be back to being demons again and Obama will look like he knew what he was doing. And he did. He manipulated the markets and lied to the American people so he and his ilk got what they wanted all along.
So now we understand how the government is going to get us to buy the cars they plan to build at GM. They are going to lie to us and manipulate us into them. A look at the Treasury report on GM indicates there are 20 cars GM makes that are turning a profit. Eleven of those are SUVs and ALL of those have to be dropped as part of the plan to save the company.
Added to this is the notion that the United Auto Workers knows what’s best for the car industry. Let’s dispense with that farce right now. Unions are there to protect their members, collect dues and obstruct management. Throw that into the present mentality in Washington to cave to the unions at every turn and you have a better picture of what happened to the CEO of GM. His very public firing would fit into the image of a ‘revenge example’ as to what happens to people who defy the U.S. government’s wishes. It set an example for other CEOs who show less than enthusiastic support of the policies of the Obama Administration and it take the head of one of the biggest names to oppose the UAW and puts it on a pole for the whole auto industry to see.
Managers are on their own in the business world. They’re the cowboys. Union members – not all, but enough – prefer the herd mentality. The unions enjoyed being told they have made ‘sacrifices’ in Obama’s speech yesterday when nothing could be further from the truth. The UAW talked about concessions at the hearings in front of Congress, but when they got back to Detroit the told the car manufacturers to go to hell. So where are the union sacrifices? In truth, there are none – but why let the truth get in the way of a good speech… Managers, on the other hand, are the ones facing down having to make sacrifices. Their jobs will be cut while Washington will fawn over the union members who have had a large hand in the problems facing the automotive industry. As this takeover of the private sector continues more and more managers will have their salaries adjusted to fit some outline Barney Frank feels fits where he wants it and more will face elimination as sacrifices to unions or the ‘taxpayers.’
For the first time in several decades GM was finally building cars that were hot and could compete with imports on all levels. Now Washington, in their desire to control Americans’ choices, are going to force GM to make cars no one will want to buy, change the playing field by manipulating oil prices forcing Americans to pay more for our gasoline and handing the ‘car war’ to the foreign car manufacturers – because Americans will buy imports if they are the only ones offering the cars we want to buy – and totally destroy the American car sector.
Thanks, Washington, for turning out the light at the end of the tunnel.
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