Brian Deese
Posted on 06/01/2009 8:36:45 AM PDT by Free America52
WASHINGTON — It is not every 31-year-old who, in a first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rules of American capitalism.
Brian Deese, who interrupted his law school career, is the little-seen force behind the revamping of the American auto industry.
But that, in short, is the job description for Brian Deese, a not-quite graduate of Yale Law School who had never set foot in an automotive assembly plant until he took on his nearly unseen role in remaking the American automotive industry.
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Quick, put him in charge while he still knows everything.
A lawyer — GM is doomed.
This is going to fail spectacularly! It can end no other way.
What? So far all that is happened is the Imperial Federal Government has stripped the shareholder's and bondholder's of 78% (probably much more) of their equity and then handed it to the union.
The union, by the way, that is the primary reason that GM, Chrysler and Ford are in the predicament that they're in. The Union's extortion-like tactics, backed by the power of Federal Law, has made the US automotive manufacturing industry a monument to the corrosive nature of organized labor.
You talking about the President?
and all of what you wrote is not the fault of this kid. You are confusing the issue. All of the problems of GM were all there prior to this kid and it was those experienced car guys that created it, no? Try not to forget that.
Brian Deese
Hopefully they can get Britney Spears to run the nationalization of newspapers.
Babyface here wasn't even born in 1975.
$20 says he has never driven a car with a big block V-8...
Which wouldn't have happened if Republicans had been competent.
$100.00 says he’s never had dirt under his fingernails.
Wuss.
My point is that a trained monkey could do what this kid has done. Rather than letting GM go through a standard Bankruptcy, perhaps backed with traditional debtor-in-possession financing, they've protected one of their primary supporters, the UAW.
Instead of a bankruptcy judge voiding the UAW's contract, the UAW is allowed to acquiesce to very modest changes that won't have any material impact of the future viability of the company. Without the real and tough changes that needed to happen, GM is going to be right back to bankruptcy, probably within 48 months.
This is a sad, sad day for Capitalism and the American way. You can't have success without failure. GM failed and should have been allowed to die a natural business death.
we don’t know that yet..just let’s see what this kid does. That’s all. He might end up being a better pick than a seasoned political democratic douchebag hack. He can’t do any worse than what those seasoned car guys at GM and Chrysler did.
Brian also worked as a research assistant at the * Center for Global Development, hired by founder Nancy Birdsall
* CGD’s stated mission is “to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community”
http://www.cgdev.org/files/483_image_file_Birdsallfordist.jpg
Her (Nancy Birdsall) work at Carnegie focused on issues of globalization and inequality, as well as on the reform of the international financial institutions.
Birdsall served for three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
She is also special adviser to the administrator of the United Nations Development Program.
the right person to strip the U.S. of capitalism and hunker down in a new biz venture taking private stock and giving it to the union, in a government takeover...no longer general motors, but now government motors.....when they come for YOUR biz and your property I hope you feel the same way. nothing good will come of this. nothing at all. the government ruins everything it touches in the private sector. regulations, laws, unions.......it all contributed to ruining GM, now they are dividing up the spoils....when they finish with what is left of the auto industry in the U.S. they will have time for you and yours.
btw, you need a new name..........maybe roll over and playing dead? mad as hell seems a bit of a misnomer... ;^)
He fits four of your five criteria. Your point is: give him a chance because he's unseasoned?
Set that money aside. By the end of the year, it'll buy a thousand shares of GM stock.
Uh no. Obviously no one wants the job or he wouldn’t be in the position. All I am arguing is give him a chance. He can’t screw up any more than the experienced guys who ran both companies into ground did. Why do you have such a problem with that? And who would you rather have because who ever you pull out of your head probably wouldn’t do it anyways.
So since we are stuck with him, let’s see how he does instead of having a hissy fit over it. There’s nothing you or I can do.
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