Anyone who hangs on this guy's word is not a conservative, in the limited government aspect, whatsoever.
“the greatest manufacturing company in American history, a strategic asset and pillar of the U.S. economy. “
Earth to Pat: GM is sinking faster than the Titanic, and you want the US Government to put 500 more people on board to help unfasten the lifeboats.
Brilliant.
You're off by a decade. And like most of Pat's stuff it sounds far better in the original German.
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1) Millions of Americans get up every morning and work jobs for a mere pittance compared to what featherbedded UAW jobs pay. A forklift operator at the average wharehouse earns $29K a year. A UAW forklift operator earns $106K a year. The typical associate professor at a college or university doesn't make that much.
2) Most business owners face the constant threat of bankruptcy if they do not have to satisfy the demands of their customer base. This causes them to produce useful, desireable products; not PT Cruisers.
3) Most consumers choose to reward businesses that make useful and desireable products at a fair price. They do not expect the government to decide who gets rewarded and then to extort that reward money out of the taxpayer. That reminds the average American of an old joke from Communist Russia: "We pretend to work; they pretend to pay us."
4) The UAW might want to sell off the PGA Championship calibre golf course and the automotice CEOs may want to stop the private jet travel before they bum money off of Congress which is expropriated from tax-paying families where both parents work to support a modest life style.
I kind of think that's what went through Senator Corker's mind during the latest shake-down...
Yes, and I'm sure PJB has the transcript of the corporate shareholder meeting where all the big institutional shareholders in Mitsubishi Motors got together and said. "Hey, let's sink the entire US Pacific Fleet, that HAS to increase our market share."
If the GOP senators, who whored for money to bring foreign auto makers to their states, kill this, guess what? They are not standing up as conservatives or as Republicans, they are mearly doing what the Illinois governor just got busted for doing. Being a well paid and bought for politician.
Isn't it odd that the majority of the guys screaming the loudest have Japanese plants in their districts, and that they arranged for some rather nice incentives for those plants to be there? Don't you think that the Dems can't see that? If GM goes under and brings down Ford with it (MOPAR is dead no matter what), and we get millions of angry unemployed former workers, does anyone really think that in 2010 they will say “Well, at least the GOP bailed out the banks!”
The GOP is really trying to kill themselves off, and this just might do it. You can't block a small bail out with a group of congress critters with questionable motives and not get some blow back. Not when you just gave a trillion to the Treasury department, and no one seems to remember what happened to it.
He needs to write a convincing article as to why the American taxpayer needs to reward failure. The free market is a rough and tumble adventure - only the best business models survive, it’s not for the squeamish...businesses survive based on merit, rather than entitlement. To me, free markets are a hallmark of conservatism. Buchanan has always been a protectionist, which puts him at odds with pretty much most of the Republican Party.
He has one valid point- what they’re asking for is far, far, far less than what Wall Street got.
Why should the U.S. consumer support overpaid union workers?
Pat is the worlds greatest living authority.
Pat’s a NNINO, oops, I mean a RINO, has been for years. He’s an FDR Republican, or a Hoover Democrat. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
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Publius’ Forum | 12/17/08 | Warner Todd Huston
Posted on 12/17/2008 7:39:26 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2150209/posts
Zil if you are unaware is a automobile of the workers paradise with those fun guys Brezhnev (spelling) and Andropov, and other workers friend under the peace loving USSR.
Hey, Pat your insignificant, you failed a couple of time to get the big seat, get over yourself and join the real world. Or just not say a word.
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