When does Obama take a breath?
Is there a point at which Obama is going to snap out of his Teen-Wolf-turns-Marxist, federal-government-is-your-master mode? Doesn’t he get that he’s enraged nearly every McCain voter, dumb as they are (guilty here), and even the Blue Dogs in his own party? He’s aligning the stars against himself simply by shoving too much change down our throats at once, which leads me to an observation I’ve made of the President.
Based on his ample apologies for American acts, policies, and deeds on his whirlwind make-nice tour, his sprint toward massive government input in all facets, and his continual sermons to his own people where he strives simply to get us to grasp his genius and plan for this nation, its clear to me that we elected a President that dislikes the country he runs. He flat dislikes us. When he apologizes for the Bay of Pigs (a noble endeavor with horrid execution), he never finds time to mention that our nation has taken out every major threat to worldwide freedom since the founding of our country. By my scorecard, that includes Austria/Germany, the Nazis/Hirohito/Il Duce, and Stalin/USSR. We are the Tiger Woods of freedom fighters, but Obama can only find faults to apologize for. I don’t expect gratitude from other nations, but I do expect OUR leader to find some positives in OUR history.
This country has a proud history, and has existed long before the One was born, as he loves to remind us, even though he’s apparently not sure when in history that was, as he’s thrice now suggested he either alive or not quite yet in several speeches, when the other was true. This country may well exist after he’s finished dousing it in gasoline, as well. Obama should recognize that while he’s currently the man, there are great ones behind, and hopefully great ones to follow.
Obama saves UAW again, screws shareholders
This is dumb as hell. Has the President considered that retirement accounts, everyday working stiffs, and pretty much everyone has a hat in the stock game, and millions still have Chrysler? Why give favorable treatment to UAW? Here’s what I mean:
The Treasury has an agreement in principle with the United Automobile Workers union, whose members’ pensions and retiree health care benefits would be protected as a condition of the bankruptcy filing, said these people, who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.
The pensions and retiree benefits are the crux of the whole problem, Barack. You are not solving much of anything. Fiat will merely inherit this albatross and be forced under eventually as well, unless they spike Chrysler, which kills a real American company and real American jobs. (By the way, where’s all the outrage over outsourcing the company to Italy?) Its why the first bailout didn’t work, and any future bailouts won’t work. Its like building a new bedroom onto a burning house because the old bedroom is engulfed in flames. The flames are coming eventually. (Sidenote: whoever is leaking these stories needs to be jailed. Why is this such a problem?)
So, bankruptcy is going to happen, but Obama changed the rules so the union can keep on murdering business. What a country. Why, do you think, he has shielded the UAW so? Oh, I bet its the billions of dollars they’ve spent to elect Democrats, who are now willingly injuring a business to keep a body that bankrolls them in power. Honestly, this always was a union bailout. Its clear its not about the companies or the shareholders.
The ultimate losers here are the shareholders, of course. 22 cents on the dollar is a catastrophe for any person/entity holding the bag. Real people are going to get smoked by this deal, but its okay guys, the unions are fine. Once more, real people are getting a falconpunch from the administration that is changing the way America works, for worse or for way worse.
