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.
