but one with zero business experience, that's scary

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

How far will the Dow drop tomorrow?

"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend,------------inside a dog it's too dark to read"   ---Groucho

After all the OAF "feels" that the mileage should go up by a few more miles per gallon.. FLUSH SCIENCE.

I have seen lots of TV commericals that PROVE white guys are soo Stupid... Proof enough that anyone can run a car company, No experience necessary,..a cave man can do it.

Check out the OAF schedule he's not doing much at the moment, he should go ahead and run GE opps GM , whatever...

He will want to ruin opps run my business next . 

Hugo would be proud.

P.R.I.N.T. Money   30 sec YT 

...and dangerous, too!

The democrats always wanted to run a car company...now they can....how many people do you think are gonna buy a GM car now?  zilch....why didn't they ask the UAW president to resign? 

A few years ago, I can remember being mocked by more than a few liberals for referring to Hugo Chavez as a "dictator in training."  Turns out that such a call wasn't off-base, after all.

In case there were any people who doubted that the Lightworker had unseemly aspirations for both himself and the United States, today's little bombshell put us well past any point of reasonable doubt.

Barack Obama is a dictator in training.

He already has people moving to abolish the 22nd Amendment.

He freely admitted, as a candidate, that he was interested in the forced redistribution of wealth.

He already has plans to establish "universal voluntary public service" and/or (depending upon which euphemism you prefer) a "civilian national security force."

He is nationalizing the banks in which we keep our money, and is nationalizing the care we use for our health.

And now, he is able to suggest to the CEO of a Fortune 500 company that he ought to resign, and what happens?

He resigns.

"Effective immediately."

When Rick Wagoner should've asked Obama what branch of the Armed Forces he planned to bring with him to make Wagoner get out.  

If you don't have a Tea Party near you in which to participate on April 15th, or thereabouts, start one yourself.  The country has seen enough of President Barack Obama, and it's time he followed Rick Wagoner's lead.

Effective immediately.

--Mike 

www.thebrattonreport...

If the economy keeps tanking, can we tell Obama to get out?
Just a thought...........

comes federal control...HOWEVER...I have never before heard of a president requesting the resignation of a private citizen...

 What's to come??

According to the stimulus package, one hell of a lot more federal control...

But just remember, its for our own good....

Oh, and just one other thing....a camel is a racehorse built by committee...

And the liberal outrage at yet another example of Oblamas fascism continues to non-exist.

Whether the CEO "mismanaged" GM or not and quite frankly, not even a brilliant manager can turn these companies around, what with the recession, the market uncertainty fostered by Blamie, the flawed pay structure imposed by the unions and the war against cheap fuel and big cars (which Americans tend to buy more than small vehicles) by the enviros, 'Bama should not be telling the private sector what to do and leaning on them until he gets them to do so. This is nothing more than state directed oppression.

but he fired him.   So much for 400 years of common law in regards to corporations.  

Jack

"If at age 20 you are a conservative then you have no heart.  If at age 30 you are a liberal then you have no brains."   Sir Winston Churchill

Why couldn't Waggoner quit exactly like this:

By demolishing ever trace of GM on the planet: blowing up every factory, every facility, every showroom, every single damn thing (except the GM cars and trucks in the hands of people who have bought them) they own.

Then, once he was done, walked right up the His Majesty The Shahinshah, and yelled at Him, "Here, a*****e!!!  YOU RUN IT!!!"

His Majesty The Shahinshah is such a genius, and so perfect in all of His attributes, that I am sure He could have taken GM from that state and made it the world's biggest auto company again in no time based off of nothing but His many talents, His giggles, and His beautiful smile.  

Or, then again, maybe He would have just curled up under His desk, and began crying hysterically.   

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

Drudge links this feature in the NYT.

The picture they paint of Glenn Beck is that of a fearmonger and voice for revolution.

Gettin' kinda nasty over there at NYT.

His comments have prompted several bloggers to speculate recently that the TV host may have been promoting an armed revolt.  (That's the equivalent of "some say")

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

I like the idea of this kind of a stimulus: Give every worker over fifty one-million dollars, flat out.  There would instantly be ~ 40 million job openings, cars sales would go through the roof, and just about anything else for sale would too.  Although, full disclosure, I am an ant where most of the United States are grasshoppers.

I could be persuaded spend some of it though.   

The thing is, Obama will now try to claim that "see, I'm not just giving them money, I'm being tough on them!" when what he really wanted was worse than just to give them money, give them money but then later demand they bow to his every whime in exchange. It's about control, not oversight. The money being wasted and the companies going under would be better than the precedent this sets! Detroit beyond repair, face it world. And trust me, Obama is glad about it, he's thinking let the bailouts fail, and then I can get what I really want, a faulty mandate for me to run the auto industry. Auto czar anyone? Thank God Ford at least was smart enough to see through him. Now Blammo also wants control over the communities where the auto plans are. Scary.

Bailout recipents beware, when you make a deal with the government, ain't nothing you get from it is truly free. Sort of like with Satan.

P.S. Why didn't he ask any Union heads to resign, hmmm? They are just as big a part of the problem with their mismanagement as any CEO is.

It looks like we are eliminating the free-market and capitalist system to where the Executive Branch of the United States will operate all Fortune 500 companies.  Nice.  We should have anticipated this when the government started telling us we had to hire certain people (quotas) and had to start offering certain benefits (health insurance) and had to pay certain salaries (minimum wage).  Captalism should be dead in another 8 years.

You've been "organized" !

Thanks to the Big "O"pressor!

Why doesn't he also fire the labor leaders who are just as guilty of no agreements between labor and management, if not more so?

A-way back in 1973, we had gas lines. We had shortages (mostly caused by government regulations and inept government officials, none-the-less, shortages!). We had gas guzzling cars. We were being held by the gonads by the oil Sheiks. For almost a century, the price of wheat was pegged to the price of oil. Then came the oil crunch and the link was broken because we didn't have the gonads to play hardball with the Sheiks. We were a moral nation who wouldn't use food as a political tool. But, it turns out, we were the tools.

Kennedy had thrown down the gauntlet and got us to the moon in less than 10 years. What did Nixon and Carter do? Thrown down the gauntlet to challenge us to get independent of foreign oil? Nah. We just rolled over and let the Sheiks play the back nine. 

GM was fabulously wealthy in the 60's. The money making machine then did really stupid things. Like let the unions have full reign of their business. They turned over control to the mob bosses and the gangstas of the time. They didn't do a good job of managing their business.

Skip forward thirty years. No centralized policy to become energy independent. GM et al's answer to the rising gas prices was insane. Buy our trucks and we'll pay your gas for a year. Meanwhile, GM didn't make the hard business decisions. They let the Japanese make them. Hybrid cars, electric cars. GM was paying almost $1,200 per car on union extorted health care for life for their workers, their non-workers and their retirees which Toyota was paying about $200. GM became the Titanic.

So, why doesn't GM fail? The Pols are getting too much money from the unions who control the game. Look at what unions said they would give up to save GM. Not a damned thing. They said wait two or three years and we'll throw in a few pennies.  So the Pols are doing the payback dance, giving carloads of cash to keep the unions in business under the guise of saving the auto industry in this country. The President of GM, who could have belly-ed up to the bar and made some drastic changes 8 years ago just went along with the status quo.

No, they deserve to go. They can't compete. The union needs to lose its grip on our politicans. We need to make it a national priority to become energy independent within ten years. We need tough competitors who are lean and mean to battle the Japanese, Koreans and Chinese in making better, more reliable, and more fuel efficient cars starting TODAY. We need to get tough again. We need that competitive spirit, not the welfare, lazy-minded, self serving crap that has enveloped our country.

Government controlled, so-called "capitalism" was the foundation of National Socialism, better known as fascism.

State control of formerly private companies was essential for Mussolini and Hitler

Obama has clearly been fully brainwashed with reactionary Marxist class claptrap, I'm sure he only sees this as a temporary period until the time is ripe to transition to full nationalization.

Capitalism being too important to be left to capitalists. This is just the beginning of actions which exhibit essentially tyrannical underpinnings. And I use that word deliberately.

A President (with 52.7% of the vote) using his powerful office to fire someone despite having NO constitutional power to direct private companies? If this is NOT an essentially tyranical act, then what is it?

Of course, the reaction of the mob will be -- hell yeah, fire his ass. Serves him right. Then it'll be prosecute him. Screw him. Hang the witch. Who cares. Power to the people dude!

Then the next tyrannical act will be a bit easier. But having set the example, Obama won't even have to give orders.Things will justhappen spontaneously because it is known what the King --- I mean the President desires.

Think I'm kidding? No, that's how it works.

Obama Amends The Constitution
Check out the poster @ Hollycrud checker-outers

...the Dow is down 215.

For the President of this country to basically force out the leader of a major corporation is a scary thing. With this development, why would any corporation take government money, so as to have this kind of hammer hanging over their heads? What has happened to the capitalist system? This administration is going 200 MPH toward socialism, and it is very concerning. 

President Obama is nothing more than a empty suit; a Hollywood style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to be a total fraud.  

WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION! 

I also wonder what would have happened if Wagoner had refused to leave quietly. Sooner or later the Bamster's fascist advance will be challenged in court, and we should welcome that. The Wells-Fargo instance might have been a good test case, if not for the fact that banks are already regulated to death. A challenge from private industry would be interesting, and also to see the Supreme Court's thoughts on this, which we are not privy to. The Kelo decision was not encouraging, but are way beyond that now.

EnDash It's right on the tip of my tongue. That word we use to describe a government that dictates a corporation's staffing, decides what products it should and should not make, reguates its marketing tactics, sets compensation levels, decides how much its debtors and shareholders whould benefit.

Anyone remember that word -- the one that just seems to escape me at the moment?

I'm endlessly irritated that these bailouts are not recognized for what they are, bailouts of the UAW.

Everyone else in the mix here has made huge sacrifices, but the unions concessions are really trivial. Obammy doesn't want GM or the others to go into the bankruptcy proceedings because then union contracts will be voided. He is protecting his unions goons.

In his gift to the nation today, he (or his speechwriter) created another strawman, as Krauthammer points out he is wont to do. He said something like 'we don't need these companies broken down and sold off in pieces'. If GM goes into Chapter X bankruptcy, that outcome is highly unlikely, and Maximum Leader could simply dictate that outcome as unacceptable. Again, all he is protecting are the union thugs and their gold-plated contract packages.

After reading this article, there isn't some relationship between the two?

http://www.politico....

Seems to me there is.  Look at it this way, no one at AIG falls on their sword, but GM has to?  Sounds a bit disingenous to me.

This is simply un-American.  What Obama and his administration did is wrong.  The Obamanistas were stupid to have voted for this fool with no experience at anything.

Tom