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To: Eric Blair 2084
The whole company is nothing more than a welfare program for unions using auto production as a front to launder money.

LOL..yes it is.

370 posted on 03/29/2009 7:14:28 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
I may have been a little harsh, though. Those union employees did actually have to work for their benefits. Get up at 5 am to do a redundant and often thankless job for 10 hours. Just to feed their families and put food on the table. God bless them.

My issue isn't with them. It's with the politicians and union bosses. The politicos have ways of forcing you to buy the eco friendly car instead of what you want. $9/gallon federal gas tax, 200% luxury tax. They own it, which is what they wanted. Now they have control.

"What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself. The essence of political freedom is the absence of coercion of one man by his fellow men. The fundamental danger to political freedom is the concentration of power. The existence of a large measure of power in the hands of a relatively few individuals enables them to use it to coerce their fellow men. Preservation of freedom requires either the elimination of power where that is possible, or its dispersal where it cannot be eliminated. It essentially requires a system of checks and balances, like that explicitly incorporated in our Constitution..."

-- Milton Friedman, The New Liberal's Creed: Individual Freedom, Preserving Dissent Are Ultimate Goals," May 18, 1961

375 posted on 03/29/2009 7:28:51 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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