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Fascism and Michael Moore's Dumb Ideas About Government Motors
Fascism, or more precisely, Mussolini-style corporatism, continues to advance in America with nary an objection.
The planned government takeover of General Motors, which filed for bankruptcy protection today, is just the latest part of the corporatist assault on American values. Even left-wing careerist Ralph Nader denounced the bankruptcy petition, calling it "an avoidable, crude weapon of mass devastation for workers, dealers, auto suppliers, small businesses and their depleted communities. For GM's voiceless owners -- the common shareholders -- it is a wipeout. "
The Obama administration is handing over a big chunk of GM to its political allies, the United Autoworkers of America, thus giving the workers ownership of the means of production, the textbook definition of socialism. Supposedly to protect the public interest, the rule of law was set aside as the repayment priority of bondholders was taken away in order to help Big Labor.
Of course, this is no way to run a company. Subjecting it to political control guarantees it will fail again and again and need more government bailouts in perpetuity.
GM will continue faltering, producing expensive politically correct environmentalist cars that will crumple like tissue paper in a crash and that nobody will want to buy.
It would be far better to simply allow GM to die rather than continue as the Fascist abomination it is in the process of becoming.
Meanwhile, left-wing nutter Michael Moore is bursting with dumb ideas about what to do next.
One is to "have bullet trains criss-crossing this country in the next five years." He says they're a success in Japan but leaves out the fact that Japan is tiny (374,744 square kilometers) compared to the U.S. (9,161,923 square kilometers) which is half the size of Russia, and that bullet train systems are prohibitively expensive.
Moore also wants the government to "[i]nitiate a program to put light rail mass transit lines in all our large and medium-sized cities. Build those trains in the GM factories. And hire local people everywhere to install and run this system." Great. More white elephant mass transit that Americans hate and won't use. Think of Amtrak multiplied say a hundred times.
Some of the other ideas to spout from Moore's head include producing expensive "or all-electric cars (and batteries)," using empty GM factories to make "windmills, solar panels and other means of alternate forms of energy," and imposing "a two-dollar tax on every gallon of gasoline."
While the powers that be may not be listening to Moore specifically, they are definitely listening to special interests that support the same kinds of boondoggles he wants to force down Americans' throats.
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Aaron| 6.1.09 @ 3:34PM
He slams GM for supposedly ruining Flint, call me crazy but Flint would not be Flint without GM. Its in ruins now because people like Moore trash the companies that support them and their way of life every chance they get.
Moore and friends can go ahead and build crappy cars and solar panels, I will buy neither. What a different place we would be if the CEOs of the big three had not went crawling on hands and knees to Capital Hill.
Ford and Toyota are the big winners of this whole mess. Odds on Toyota picking up Saturn?
Veronica| 6.1.09 @ 3:39PM
Great. Mr. Fat Mouth Fascist is making policy now. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over.
CaptSpalding| 6.1.09 @ 3:49PM
And this is only the beginning. :(
Billy Ingalls| 6.1.09 @ 4:12PM
Michael Moore only has a voice because he is embraced by the same group of people who worked so hard to get McCain nominated, Hilary obliterated and Obama elected: the media. As long as Moore is like-minded, they will prop him up just as they are the President.
Crusader| 6.1.09 @ 4:52PM
I read a sci-fi story one time (Ray Bradbury maybe?) where some guy invented a machine that could transport you from one place to another. How about GM get right on building that? Then maybe they could build a time machine and we could go back in time and maybe fix this mess before it starts? And how about making cars that run on rainbows and happy thoughts? Just as viable an option as bullet trains.
What's harder, for a man to understand how women think or for normal people to understand how libtards think?
Angel| 6.1.09 @ 6:14PM
I don't know, Crusader--that's a tough one. I don't think women want you guys to be able to figure us out, though--it's too much fun to watch you twist slowly in the wind. ;)
Teleprompter Messiah| 6.1.09 @ 6:41PM
Moore is an expert at losing other people's money.
Jack Sheehy| 6.1.09 @ 9:57PM
What is different between taking over GM and Iraq? No timeline, money thrown at the problem, and now Obama instead of Bush?
Smitty| 6.2.09 @ 2:57AM
Uh, Jack--how many millions of the oppressed has Obama freed at GM? I didn't realize the CEO of General Motors was a sadistic madman who tortured his employees. Instead of Bush's War on Terror, it's Obama's War on Capitalism and Free Enterprise. Terrorist in Chief.
Rebecca| 6.2.09 @ 8:04AM
Why do people who continually bash their employer expect that the public would see them as being any better? I hate doing business with a company where the employees complain about their jobs or bosses, especially in public.
The Michael Moores of the world misunderstand the role of "security" in the working world. A unionized job is just enough, but no more. It is just enough to satisfy Maslow's lower needs, but for very few, satisfy the higher ones. It takes guts to work at GM or the state (here in Michigan) and walk away to start your own business, or get a job doing something you love that pays less.
Sometimes the best thing that can happen to people is change.
By the way, I think I have read that Michael Moore isn't that great to work for either.
Peter Eldridge| 6.2.09 @ 2:06PM
I get real tired of the Tory press, like American Spectator, taking swipes at both Amtrak the concept of High Speed Rail, and mass transit. As a whole they are at best ill informed and at best juvenile. Michael Moore aside, the concept has definitely come and a number of State and local governments are now getting “onboard.”
Speaking before a audience at Randolph Macon College on May 28, 2009 Amtrak’s CEO
spoke of the move toward higher speed rail as incremental. While States like Virginia, New York and Illinois have begun to invest in their rail infrastructure it is California that has taken the lead. Not TGV bullet trains, but ones that can co- exist with freight and commuter rail on existing trackage.
California’s plans for “world-class” high-speed rail show what can be accomplished on tracks shared with freight (and commuter) trains. In the words of Ohio DOT Director Jolene Molitoris, “the much-publicized passage of California’s high-speed rail funding plan in a statewide ballot issue last November has its basis in decades of development of one of the nation’s most sophisticated and well-run conventional speed systems.”
The three, state-supported California corridors accounted for 5.5 million riders or 19.3% of Amtrak’s total nationwide ridership in FY 2008. This was accomplished by running trains more frequently, acquiring new train cars, building new stations, and creating a feeder-bus network to serve major off-line communities and the major link where passenger trains do not yet run (Bakersfield-Los Angeles). So much for so called “white elephant” transit projects. In other markets such as NYC to Albany Amtrak’s market share is nearly 50%, while the NEC is at 40% of the traveling public.
Finally, with regard to Moore’s comments about light rail being built at GM factories I find not only refreshing, but also ironic. Here is the company that 60 years ago set out to buy up and destroy our cities transit systems under the guise of National City Lines now begging for its worthless corporate life. In fact those very vehicles (streetcars and trolley buses) might be GM’s salvation.
Brute| 6.2.09 @ 9:27PM
Just sitting here thinking about my father. He and his pals started a company in 1963. Over the course of the last +/- 45 years I can only imagine the number of houses that were purchased, college educations that were paid for, meals put on the table, teeth straightened, broken arms mended, retirement plans funded, electric bills paid for, automobiles purchased, etc, all due to these few men supplying jobs for a small community of employees (and by extension the employees of supporting vendors/companies that benefited from this mid-size company).
The number of the above mentioned that General Motors has provided over the last 100 years must be staggering, and Michael Moore condemns it.
His sneering condemnation doesn’t stack up, even considering this day and age of entitlements/handouts and people who simply want something for nothing.
What an ingrate.
He truly is a contemptible man.
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