Lee Iococca's New Book

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[mnehring]

Iacocca has a point if we were allowed to source oil here. But we aren't so imposing a protection tariff would be suicide.

[lilylangtree]

Good ole foul mouth Lee got the govt (taxpayer dollars) to bail out Chrysler.

[wideawake]

Tariffs = a regressive tax on consumption.

Take your tax increases to a left-wing forum and leave FR alone.

[misterrob]

Another POS business/leadership book. The taxpayers bailed out Chrysler which is why it survived. Lee is another liberal capitalist (yeah, I know what oxymoron means) who is not the genius everyone made him out to be. Protectionism and tariffs brought us the Great Depression.

[Havok]

I hate Hurricane Katrina references saying the Government handled it badly. Sorry its not the government or national taxpayers jobs to take care of dumb-asses who live below sea level on the coast.

[mnehring]

Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina.

Rick Perry and Haley Barbour handled the impact to their states with shining performance.

[caver]

I think Chrysler payed it back too.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

When the taxpayers bailed out Chrysler CEO Iococca took one dollar as his annual salary.

Do you hear anything like that from Wall Street's "Socialize the risk, privatize the reward" pukes?

I did not check but if memory serves Chrysler paid the money back.

[PastorTony]

It’s a shame Iacocca doesn’t see the root of all of our problems. From what I read from him, and have seen him say in the past is that he doesn’t like what the government is doing, but yet still wants the government to fix whatever problem there is. This is the mindset that far too many people have.

The root problem is big government. The solution is to get rid of as much government as possible. Until we do it’s a joke to say we live in a free society.

[Erik Latranyi]

Lee is a liberal, but makes some good points here.

These are my reasons why we are in this mess:

There are no leaders because when one emerges, we tear them down and relish in the sport.

Nobody steps forward with a plan for anything because they get no support from those who didn’t think of it first and can’t get credit for it.

Party Politics is more important than finding solutions.

There are no “truths” anymore.

[papasmurf]

You forgot the (Barf Alert!) tag.

[misterrob]

What did he get in stock options?

[wideawake]

When the taxpayers bailed out Chrysler CEO Iococca took one dollar as his annual salary.

Most people don't realize that a CEO's salary constitutes about 1% of his total compensation.

did not check but if memory serves Chrysler paid the money back.

That's how loans work.

[mkjessup]

For inflicting America with the curse of those g*d@#ned 4-wheel boxes called ‘mini-vans’, Iacocca should be consigned to one of Dante’s inner (or outer, makes no difference) circles of Hell for all eternity.

[SJSAMPLE]

Yep.

I work in Mississippi and those folks, every one of them, are proud of their Katrina respnse.

Nobody in NOLA should hold their head high.

[SJSAMPLE]

Not to mentin that the US Goobermint had to purchase a metric shitload of those POS K-cars.

Anybody in the USAF or US Army couldn’t go ten feet without seeing those lime grees pukemobiles.

Iococca gets far too much credit for getting a gub’mint loand and making shitty cars.

[mkjessup]

I work in Mississippi and those folks, every one of them, are proud of their Katrina response.

I've seen one Freeper's tagline that says "Haley Barbour in 2012, Why? Because he's an expert in DISASTER RECOVERY", lol

Nobody in NOLA should hold their head high.

Funny, but NOLA was run by Democrats during Katrina, wasn't it? Some guy named Ray Nagin, screwed the pooch big time, is he the one?

[xjcsa]

Tariffs are a terrible idea, even when you use all capital letters.

[MEGoody]

Lee, I don’t know where you got the idea you were some kind of expert on leadership. You had to run to the government to bail you out instead of providing the kind of leadership that would bring your company out of a financial crisis.