Obama to appoint panel for auto recovery

AP via Yahoo! ^ | 2/16/2009 | STEVEN R. HURST

[1066AD]

Setting up a soviet to run the show ?

[goodnesswins]

More commie BS

[Red Badger]

...to direct the restructuring of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC...

Toyota must be popping champagne corks right about now.........

[musicman]

"Obama to appoint panel for auto recovery"

[raybbr]

Will these people get paid? With tax dollars? The bloat in Obama’s admin is going to smother the U.S.

[EyeGuy]

“...presidential task force to direct the restructuring of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC.”

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Does anyone else realize the enormity of that simple phrase?

The utter sea change in America and American business that this implies?

[Darkwolf377]

Can this guy do ANYTHING himself, or does he have to hand it all off to Pelosi or a panel?

Is he aware he is president, or does he think he’s Community Organizer in Chief?

[jersey117]

I thought the auto bailout was suppoesd to have done that.

[jersey117]

I just can’t put the word President in front of his name. I call him Community Organizer 44.

[Tarpon]

Fascism, not Soviet Communism. It's important to keep the distinctions straight -- IMHO.

Fascism is halfway between socialism and communism, the government controls everything important. Like forcing the auto industry to build golf carts and then people have no choice what they buy.

It's what Kenya is and what Obama's Marxist pappy advocated.

Here is an excellent video that another freeper linked that explains the differences.

[sam_paine]

Can this guy do ANYTHING himself, or does he have to hand it all off to Pelosi or a panel?

Listen to how he's made you contort yourself.

Why would the POTUS directing the restructuring himself be more desirable than a committee appointed by POTUS?

Time was when we instinctively recoiled at the thought of govt involved in any way with private business decisions.

[mewzilla]

Obama to appoint panel for auto UAW recovery

There. Fixed that one, too :)

[pepperhead]

In the end 0bama may very well make the decisions himself. But until that time comes he is going to hire people to suck on the governmental tit and get fat!

[alloysteel]

The automobile production soviet council. Who gets to make the ZIO limosines (the exclusive vehicle for transportation of high government officials)? And will the HUMVEE be replaced with the GAZ 69A? Perhaps we may be permitted to purchase a Pobeda, if we get on the waiting list and are otherwise sufficiently conforming to the desired correct thinking. Or maybe a copy of an old East German Trabant.

[Kakaze]

"I think it's safe to say that things have not yet bottomed out," press secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday.

Well I can't argue that!

Get your hands out of our lives and do just what the constitution allows you to do!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Auto design by government committee. Successful everywhere it's been tried.

[Darkwolf377]

Listen to how he's made you contort yourself. Why would the POTUS directing the restructuring himself be more desirable than a committee appointed by POTUS? Time was when we instinctively recoiled at the thought of govt involved in any way with private business decisions.

My point, which I think was pretty obvious, is that this guy is always handing things off to panels. I assumed everyone could make the association with Soviet-style committees.

But some need a little more prodding--glad I could help! ;)

[Darkwolf377]

He is making government this Kafka-esque labyrinth in order to insulate himself from all responsibilities as well as further distance government actions from the people.

Were he a genuine liberal he would be pushing for more local control of government.

But he’s not. We forget that there is a difference between a liberal and a communist. I can’t stand either, but there IS a significant difference.

[sam_paine]

Actually, I'm helping you to understand something in your own post which you are oblivious to.

You're so focused on "soviet committees" and Obama's helplessness, that you missed the point that in a capitalist republic, neither the President nor his soviet committees have any business making business decisions in a private company.

It doesn't matter if Obama "can't do all this by himself." He shouldn't be doing any of it.

[hermgem]

You need to realize that Obama inserts a layer between himself and this automobile problem, just in case the car making recovery blows up and bodies stand at the ready to absorb the carnage.
Just look at Obama’s spending pattern:
Campaign $760 million plus,
Inauguration $75 million,
Stimulus $1 Trillion (first part only, with more to come)
The man certainly knows how to create loyalties and dependents.