Jesus, that sounds like it was lifted right out of a history chapter on the Soviet Union of Socialist Republics!
Posted on 03/31/2009 4:01:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
President Obama on Monday named a University of Maryland, College Park professor to his Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry.
Ed Montgomery, also a former Labor Department deputy secretary, was named director of the task force's Auto Industry's Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers.
He will be responsible for coordinating a government-wide effort to help support the workers, communities and regions that rely on the U.S. auto industry, according to the university.
"When a community is struck by a natural disaster, the nation responds to put it back on its feet," Mr. Obama said. "While the storm that has hit our auto towns is not a tornado or a hurricane, the damage is clear, and we must likewise respond. And that's why today I'm designating a new director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through the red tape... Edward Montgomery has agreed to serve in this role."
Earlier this year, Mr. Montgomery, dean of the university's College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, was named by Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and National Economic Council Director Lawrence H. Summers an official designee to the task force to consider Chrysler and General Motors Corp.'s restructuring plans.
Auto workers and their families "will have a strong advocate in Ed," Mr. Obama said. "He will direct a comprehensive effort that will help lift up the hardest-hit areas by using the unprecedented levels of funding available in our Recovery Act and throughout our government to create new manufacturing jobs and new businesses where they're needed most -- in your communities."
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Paid for by the American taxpayer.
Huge transfer of wealth.
These people must be stopped soon.
Hey, buy a car you can’t afford, and we’ll pay for it if you lose your job. Here we go again.
Thanks, all of those who voted for Obama!
Why didn’t they just hire a workout firm.
Oh yea, they are rats and must hire friends.
Nevermind.
Jesus, that sounds like it was lifted right out of a history chapter on the Soviet Union of Socialist Republics!
More .gov fish redistribution.
Well, there's a great choice to run a business. Whoops... businesses. errr... maybe it's the new inmates of the Homeland.
$10 bucks says this guy’s a tax-cheat.
I’d wager this clown doesn’t know the first dammed thing about cars outside of driving them.
Just the right person to head an auto task force if you are an idiot liberal or just a government bureaucrat! LOL
Seems like the Mustang Ranch all over again.
Short GM
Heads on a Stick Tax Revolt Rally!
Impeach the bastard now!!
The ever-expanding state. Leviathan lives!
Ed Montgomery, also a former Labor Department deputy secretary, was named director of the task force's Auto Industry's Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers.
He will be responsible for coordinating a government-wide effort to help support the workers, communities and regions that rely on the U.S. auto industry, according to the university.
Earlier this year, Mr. Montgomery, dean of the university's College of Behavioral and Social Sciences…
Auto workers and their families "will have a strong advocate in Ed,"
I’m guessing that Ed isn’t what one would call "a car guy".
Oh, great. A ‘professor’. So what is he gonna do? THEORIZE about WHAT they need to do? More ‘experimental’ crap. FAIL.
Obama is just following Comrade Putin’s example...
Let me get this straight. Obama and the Democrats are going to use taxpayer money to create new "businesses" chosen by unelected, unaccountable government officials in communities chosen by these same government officials. These officials will have unlimited access to taxpayer money to create Soviet style “jobs” and “businesses” with no purpose other than to advance political agendas.
Is there anyone out there who is not scared to death of this?
Edward Montgomery became dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences in July 2003.
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