Posted on 07/10/2009 11:03:57 PM PDT by pissant
Gov. Brian Schweitzer is calling on the Obama administration to force General Motors to honor its contract with a Montana mining company instead of going overseas to buy the precious metals used to control vehicle pollution.
By failing to shield the platinum and palladium mines, the Democrat said Friday that the administration had shown a bias against his state -- at a time when other U.S. jobs were protected with a "buy American" clause in the $787 billion stimulus act. GM is shedding its contracts with Stillwater Mining Co.'s platinum and palladium mines as part of the automaker's emergence from bankruptcy protection.....
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Columbus-based Stillwater employs more than 1,300 people and runs the only mines in the United States producing the metals, about 90 miles southwest of Billings.
With platinum and palladium mined in just two other countries, Russia and South Africa, Schweitzer said GM's cancellation would put the U.S. at a strategic risk and hurt the mining industry.
A White House spokesman declined comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
Schweitzer is a democrat, I noticed they forgot to put that in the article. How many votes is Montana?
All part of the “Buy American” plan and slogans your loving and faithful government hacks were chanting just a few weeks ago.
This people are incredible traitors to “We the People”.
Montana went to McCain.
Did you honestly expect Montana to go to Obama?
Yes, that’s true.
this is the “dumb hick” that gave the “big speech” at the DNC last year.
Thus begins 0bama’s economic war against Republican and 10th Amendment States.
A part of me wants to rub it in every liberals’ face. I want to see them suffer. But the better part of me just wants everyone to come to their senses and throw the b-words out.
They didn’t vote for Obama so they need to pay. That’s the Chicago way. Wouldn’t surprise me to find that those foreign companies benefiting somehow “legally” to funnel money to the Democrats and the Obama campaign. So far that’s how the stimulus money has been spent. Areas that went heavily Democratic and for Obama are being taken care of if the reporting is accurate and those that didn’t well they need to learn from their “mistake”
the electric car is coming
Every thing Imam Obama touches is failing,
Obama had private meeting with South African pres earlier today.
Montana is one of those uppity states that is challenging the commerce department on the gun issue. Freedom isn’t free, and neither are we anymore, it seems. The government is a harsh, harsh mistress.
Hey, Montana didn’t go for Ubama, so that’s what happens.
You think Al Capone ever sent Eliot Ness a birthday card?
More the reason NOT to buy a GM car. They are probably buying poor materials.
EVERY, SINGLE, DAMNED ACTION OF THE MAN-CHILD POTUS IS AGAINST THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE US. EVERY, SINGLE ONE!
Folks, an incompetent imbecile would at least get some things right. So that leaved us with only one conclusion. IT IS INTENTIONAL!
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Well, of course it is.
Schweitzer is a good guy. I met him in New Orleans around a month after Katrina and he was there getting his hands dirty along with the MT National Guard.
I talked to him for a bit in the 9th Ward and did not realize who he was until a few people addressed him as “governor.”
With platinum and palladium mined in just two other countries, Russia and South Africa, Schweitzer said GM's cancellation would put the U.S. at a strategic risk and hurt the mining industry.
Platinum and palladium are rare elements in the earth's crust.
In this particular instance, I think that we'll be better off in the long run by sitting on our supply and using up the Russian and South African deposits first. Then when those begin to peter out, we'll still have plenty of our own left.
>>the electric car is coming
I’m not sure that is the case, and any way too bad we don’t have the generation infrastructure to really do it in great numbers. Wind, solar, pixies, and unicorns aren’t going to power an advanced technological civilization. We’d better get on the stick building nuclear plants, if electric cars are ever to be a significant part of our transportation picture.
Do you see that happening, under Obama?
This is an old thread, about an even older booklet called The Revolution Was, from 1938 by Garet Garrett regarding FDR and the New Deal. ALMOST EVERY WORD COULD BE WRITTEN TODAY.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
Some excerpts from the intro (caps are my highlights:
There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom......
Worse outwitted were those who kept TRYING TO MAKE SENSE of the New Deal from the point of view of all that was implicit in the American scheme, charging it therefore with contradiction, fallacy, economic ignorance, and general incompetence to govern.
But it could not be so embarrassed and all that line was wasted, because, in the first place, IT NEVER INTENDED TO MAKE THAT KIND OF SENSE, and secondly, it took off from nothing that was implicit in the American scheme. It took off from a revolutionary base......
No matter how carefully a revolution may have been planned there is bound to be a crucial time. That comes when the actual seizure of power is taking place. In this case certain steps were necessary. They were difficult and daring steps. But more than that, they had to be taken in a certain sequence, with FORETHOUGHT AND PRECISION OF TIMING....
Having passed THIS CRISIS, the New Deal went on from one problem to another, taking them in the proper order.....
THE END HELD CONSTANTLY IN VIEW WAS POWER.
At the end of the first year, in his annual message to the Congress, January 4, 1934, President Roosevelt said: “It is to the eternal credit of the American people that this tremendous readjustment of our national life is being accomplished peacefully.”
Peacefully if possible of course.
Until it was too late few understood one like Julius C. Smith, of the American Bar Association, saying: “Is there any labor leader, any businessman, any lawyer or any other citizen of America so blind that he cannot see that this country is drifting at an accelerated pace into administrative absolutism similar to that which prevailed in the governments of antiquity, the governments of the Middle Ages, and in the great totalitarian governments of today? Make no mistake about it. Even as Mussolini and Hitler rose to absolute power under the forms of law... so may administrative absolutism be fastened upon this country within the Constitution and within the forms of law.”
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