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No offense, redangus, but this guy isn’t a run-of-the-mill guy.

He is a political science hack with no experience. Not that it is going to matter in whether GE lives or dies, in my opinion, because it cannot live. The question is how much of our money is going to be thrown into this until people realize it is not going to work and it won’t work with the unions involved.

This has nothing at all to do with whether the guy has a degree or not, or letters after his name or not. Believe me, I deal all day with people who have MD after their name, and some of them don’t let you forget it.

But just because some of them might or might not be incompetent jerks, that doesn’t mean that someone doesn’t know what they are doing if they DO have letters after their name.

You can easily turn it around and it is just as valid. Just because someone doesn’t have letters after their name does not mean they are or aren’t going to be good or competent. It simply means they don’t have letters after their name.

But just because someone DOESN’T have any experience, does NOT qualify them for anything in any way, shape, or form unless competence or incompetence has no bearing at all.

If someone wants to be hired to lick stamps, I don’t care what their background is. They can probably be a successful stamp-licker and I would hire them on the spot.

But if I have had a bad experience with a contractor building a home, I am not going to simply hire the next guy who comes along cheerfully proclaiming that he has no experience whatsoever. I **might** ask to look at some of his work and talk to his customers, and then I might consider him.

He might be a smart guy, I am sure he is a lot smarter than me in a lot of ways, a lot of people are. Liberals are good at going in somewhere and speaking volumes about how to fix this problem or that problem and spend billions doing it.

When it doesn’t work and the money is gone, you can’t get a single one of them to own up to being part of it, much the same way it became nearly impossible to find anyone in Germany in 1946 who would admit to being a nazi.

So, I am glad Lawrence Summers thinks the world of this guy. That’s great, not that I think he is any great shakes. But my issue is that they put this guy in charge of developing policy that is going to suck up billions and billions more of your tax dollars and my tax dollars.

Sure, GM might be a dead dog. But I’ll be damned if I will sign off on money being thrown at the automakers, because until the unions are dead, they are going to be sinkholes for tax dollars. And given his background, what is MOST important is the viability of the unions. The fact that people can keep their jobs and pay union dues that are given to liberal candidates is a nice side effect for them, but make no mistake-that is what it is all about.