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Cafe Hayek has something you’ll want to be seated to read (put it this way: even NPR was taken aback). Seated, that is, preferably not in one of those museum-bound vehicles as you have come to know them:
In this NPR interview, Lisa Jackson, head of the EPA, gives her perspective (and her boss’s) on the auto industry (HT: TJ Goss). In the second quote from her, I have tried to reproduce the sounds she makes in trying to avoid telling a ridiculous lie. She tells it anyway. From the 3:35 mark of the interview:
Jackson: The President has said-and I couldn’t agree more-that what this country needs is one single national road map that tells auto makers who are trying to become solvent again, what kind of car it is they need to be designing and building for the American people.
NPR reporter (interrupting): Is that the role of the government. though? I mean that doesn’t sound like free enterprise.
Jackson: Well, ih it , it is free enterprise in a way. Umm uhh you know, first and foremost the free enterprise system has us where we are right this second (laughs) and so some would argue that the government already has a much larger role than we might have when Henry Ford rolled the first cars off the assembly line.
Trabant meets Obama…the TraBama 2010, brought to you by the EBA, the Everything’s our Business Agency.
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Pingback| 4.30.09 @ 3:20PM
Trabant meets Obama | But As For Me links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
ncatty| 4.30.09 @ 4:14PM
Does anyone else miss the good old days when the lefties tried to design cars by regulation? Now they can just take over the manufacturer and give it to the consumers good and hard. And nobody gives a darn.
Tim| 4.30.09 @ 4:32PM
What it means is that Ford (among others) gets to make the cars (AND TRUCKS!) that people want to buy, while Chrysler and GM build three wheel eco hybrid trikes with little orange flag masts and solar panel roofs.
Maybe you guys could have a naming contest, top three model names get a free subscription boost.
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Interested Conservative| 4.30.09 @ 5:29PM
Tim - Iowahawk already has the naming and branding video - check out "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAqPMJFaEdY&feature=channel_page"
Blacque Jacques Shellacque| 4.30.09 @ 5:53PM
"Now they can just take over the manufacturer and give it to the consumers good and hard."
Not as long as we are free to refuse to buy what they're peddling.
Becky| 4.30.09 @ 9:54PM
Sounds almost like they are thinking along the lines of that other famous people's car, the Volkswagon.
It doesn't matter what the topic or product, this administration beleives in one single national roadmap for everything, health, education, charity, press, why should car manufacturing be any different?
It's all so easy, when you are implementing that "smart" manufacturing. Kind of like the smart diplomacy, they are hitting the reset button. Someone needs to quit manufacturing those buttons for this administration, they've watched too many Staples ads.
Pingback| 5.1.09 @ 5:51AM
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Trabant meets Obama : PlanetTalk.net - Learn t links to this page. Here’s an excerpt: