[tips up]

Mark Steyn hits another home run with all the issues of the day.

For every GM worker making a car, ten are not making a car but are getting health care benefits. Unbelievable....

[zeugma]

Brilliant! Thanks for posting.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Laughed out loud. Hurts to laugh so hard at something that’s so ludicrously, ridiculously, shamefully true.

[VRWC For Truth]

For every GM worker making a car, ten are not making a car but are getting health care benefits.

10 X more efficient than Social Security or any other grubment program.

[ScreamingFist]

From the comments on the site.

How I wish someone would go to Washington, DC and speak to the self-appointed elites what Oliver Cromwell said to Parliament in 1653. Tell me if most of the following is not approprate now.

"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money; is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? is there one vice you do not possess?

Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?

Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves become the greatest grievance. Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do;

I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place; go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there (Parliamentary Staff), and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!"

[Albion Wilde]

"General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary."

The pricelessness of this man's writing exceeds all previous records set by himself, who is already in a class by himself.

[Liberty Valance]

Dear Mr. Steyn,

You can frame this one and nail it to the wall.
It's perfect.

Liberty

*And a Hopey Changemas to you as well*

[GOPJ]

And when Gov. Girlyman has run out of state taxpayers to fleece for his ever-more-bloated bureaucracy, he'll go to Washington to plead for a federal bailout of Cantaffordya.

What Steyn does isn't writing - it's art - melting clocks art.

[MeekOneGOP]

General Motors now has a market valuation about a third of Bed, Bath & Beyond, and no one says your Swash 700 Elongated Biscuit Toilet Seat Bidet is too big to fail. GM has a market capitalization of about $2.4 billion. For purposes of comparison, Toyota's market cap is $100 billion and change (the change being bigger than the whole of GM). General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary. The UAW is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as "workers" (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.

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Classic Mark Steyn!!!

Ping! Ping! Ping!

[Cinnamon Girl]

Does anyone else hear Mark Steyn’s voice when reading his work? Followed by “It’s a Marshmallow World”?

[Smokin' Joe]

GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.

Makes it pretty obvious who really is behind the push for Gubmint (Socialized) Health care.

On that alone, they'd save a fortune. I wonder how many other industries are in similar straits?

[mewzilla]

BTTT for anyone who missed it.