I’m not buying it. I have yet to hear anyone that I am around say anything negative about it. People are worrying about their jobs and the economy. I haven’t heard a peep except for one or two people that keep up on the political news.
Bring it up. I have converted Obama voters boycotting GM at work.
I agree. if it isn’t hitting them directly in their pocketbook, the sheeple are not focusing on it.
Exactly. The media has been instructed to say that they will emerge stronger than ever.
Agreed. The GM bailout doesn’t affect me.... yet. And Obama won’t become unpopular until his Communist policies start taking effect. That is, when the country is so broke, interest rates are 25%. Or, inflation is 20% a year. Or, my electric bill is $300 a month. Or, I have to wait in a 6 month line to get my knee scoped. Or, my Federal taxes just went up 30%.
Then people might ask, how did we get here, and is this really George Bush’s fault, or is it Obama fault too? That will probably take 3-4 years.
There’s a similar disconnect across the board.
People are overwhelmingly telling pollsters they don’t like Obama’s economic approach particularly, but they also blame the bad economy on Bush and are favorable towards Obama.
Sure, we don’t have the press on our side and our advocates in the main haven’t been effective in voicing the opposition, but there’s something else going on. People know that Obama is doing almost everything they don’t believe in, but they don’t want to call him on that. They’d rather have him continue to muck up our future than entertain a confrontation with him.
Maybe they’ve just been too beaten down by political correctness, and taking the heavy economic blow they’ve already suffered they don’t want to think of themselves as unPC and thus somehow uncharitable as well?
Forget about the polls because this story is far from over.
The left has a marvelous capacity for hanging on to failure. Look how many years the commie commissars in the old CCCP held on to the hope that one more five-year plan would turn things around. Cuba and N. Korea are basket cases. Every South American that has embraced the left is either economically broke or has ultimately rejected it. And then there’s China. The Chinese communist government is a dead government walking. Now that free enterprise is alive and well there, the commissars are discovering it is easier to go with the flow than return to the bad old Mao days. That does not mean that China does not have national security concerns and aspirations that will conflict with its neighbors, America and some Europeon countries. I predict that the soviet style commie government will ultimately fade way.
So, back to GM. The Marxist Onada and his crowd, playing to type, have glommed on to a loser—GM. I predict The Messiah will hang on to that sinking ship until it finally turns keel up and joins the Titanic.
Not understanding a thing about how a real market economy works, Onada thinks that consumers will buy GM cars—even as it struggles with bankruptcy and closes dealerships. But the other car companies are going to smell blood in the water. I predict they will price GM right out of the market. Especially, if GM turns to producing so-called “green” cars that are not needed and nobody wants. And especially if our new car tycoons—Onada, Pelosi, Reid and the unions—try to run the show.