Posted by
flagwaver on Monday, March 30, 2009 8:45:29 AM
In a pure moment of the pot calling the kettle black, the administration has decided that they actually know best how to run automakers! With the "suggestion" that the CEO of GM step aside so they could appoint someone better suited for the job, the Obama administration has shown us just how ridiculous they are, and how stupid the idea that the government is capable of running a for profit business really is.
Now Rick Waggoner may have deserved to lose his job at GM, because it has not been the greatest executive tenure in the history of corporate America, but the idea that Barack Obama shuld be telling him how to run anything is laughable. This is a President who cannot staff the Treasury Department, outside of a tax cheat as Secretary, while at the same time seeking unprecedented powers for the Department! This is an administration that has a Homeland Security Secretary whose home state became a leading center for Mexican drug cartels to kidnap people for ransom on her watch as governor; yet she now expects us to believe that her top priority is helping the Mexicans combat the drug cartels...at the expense of internal immigration enforcement. And this is an administration that cannot even run a monopoly in the form of the US Postal Service and make money at it. In case you haven't heard, the Postal Service is running at a huge loss, is laying off workers, slashing their operating hours, and is talking about cancelling Saturday deliveries in order to save money...but the government that has run a MONOPOLY into the ground feels free to lecture GM about not giving them a detailed plan for the future of the company, and is about to undermine a deal between Chrysler and Fiat by mandating a 30 day deadline on their business negotiations! This is un-freaking-believable!!!!
A government that can only run a military well (and would love to shaft the troops wounded in combat buy forcing them to pay for their own medical care, all to save a few buck so they can waste on on some pork barrel project) is now in the business of telling companies that actually have to deal with market forces how to operate...even though they (the G) can't seem to get all of its key positions staffed. I have seen some things in my day, but this damned near beats them all!
"Pot, meet kettle!"