GM- A Example of What Happens When Government Runs Industry

GM has finally paid back the TARP bailout. The new CEO, Ed Whitacre , created a TV ad congratulating themselves on their progress. The Gaffe-O-Matic Vice President likewise continued with the happiness reporting. As it turned out, all of this was intended simply to blow sunshine up our ass.

Yes, we've been "had" again by the Obama administration, and its newest acquisition, GM (Government Motors). GM paid the taxpayers back with....are you ready...OUR OWN FREAKING MONEY!! GM took money out of a taxpayer funded escrow account, and paid us back with our own money. They are still operating at a loss, and have no earnings.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again. If any Conservative buys a GM car, your doing nothing but subsidizing Socialism. The UAW, which builds these cars, finances the DNC. The DNC has been taken over by Socialists, so any purchase of a GM car goes to that purpose.

I will never buy another GM car. This is a lifetime commitment for me. I will encourage all members of my family and friends to do likewise. The overtaxed US taxpayer will be facing huge deficits for decades to come, and Federal financing of GM is simply throwing good money down a deep and nasty rat hole. Don't ever let the Government convince you again that any business is too big to fail.

The Fallen American Empire...the Summit of the Americas.

I'm so proud that BO is striking such new friendships with Socialist Governments. It seems socialist leaders and BO are discovering that they agree more than disagree on areas of foreign policy and governance. The United States is a terrorist, imperialistic State that deserves its comeuppances. Yes BO, we are so sorry for being the exceptional, great capitalistic power we are.... that provided more resources and money to the worlds poor than any nation on Earth. Not to mention, taking the lead in removing international bad guys and restoring rightful Governments. Yes, we are so damn sorry. Perhaps BO is right, America shouldn't lead, and let the world lead us. Europe, leading in the 20th century, brought us two world wars. Yes. Looking forward to America stepping back, and becoming another socialist mediocre power. BO has put us on equal footing and moral equivelancy with the likes of Chavez, Castro, and Ortega.

Evil is slobbering at the prospect of gobbling up the world, with no Judeo Christian power to stand in its way. Altruism is replacing our Christian heritage, and we know how good, just very good, people are if given a chance. Just ask Senator Stewart Smalley.

What will you do with your freedom?

The siren of a compassionate Government, to take care of every need sings once again of utopia. How long, dear Jesus, will men and women fall for this vision, an illusion that forges the iron fist of tyranny. “Change we can believe in”, “the audacity of hope”, “yes we can”…its all been said before, repainted, repackaged, and resold, to our peril.

America must decide if fear will let the tyrant rule, or will they take charge of their personal lives and say no to this tyrant. We can do for ourselves. That is the fundamental difference between the rationing and lack Government management provides, and surpluses and prosperity that free men acting in their own interest provides. There is no more powerful force than free markets, finding efficiencies through pursuit of profits.

Free markets must be regulated, not to hamper their forces, but to pluck out the corrupt that produce products that do not measure up to the value they advertise. Where money and power exist, corrupt men and women exist. So it is true with Government, until the money is gone.

Before we enter into the era of big Government, let us learn again the lesson of the Soviet Union. Here, we had a country, a worker's nation, that tried to provide housing, education, healthcare, without the power of free markets. Using the currency of their Christian heritage and work ethic, it worked for a time. Then the great experiment in socialism started to crumble as the forces of corruption made some in that society more valuable than others. The highest value assigned by the Government were to those who promoted the socialist state, not the workers, engineers, scientists, doctors, farmers, and others who made value out of raw materials. The average Soviet began to see how fruitless it was to work hard, because no benefit of that labor ever returned to them or members of their family. They used to have a joke about the Soviet socialist State, “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work”.

There is the failure of socialism, and its built-in and certain. A man will do more for himself than he will do for the greater good of any State. Those who claim to concern themselves with the greater good of the State are the political commissars who take the best for themselves, while they use the whip of State power to beat their worker classes to death. Eventually, the worker will quit or die, as the socialist state has killed any motivation to work. All that’s left to motivate in such a State is fear. The pretty words, ‘each according to his ability, each according to his need” never addressed the needs of the human spirit.

Although Obama is a charismatic figure, let us not fall for this again. As age creeps into my bones, I can do little but call out the alarm that the Socialists are coming. They are riding hard in our direction, and once again American patriots must ride out to meet and stop them.

The Audacity of Hopelessness

The more I think about this porkulus, the more hopeless I feel. Many of us thought Bush's ridiculous bail out of banks (TARP) would Obama-proof our economy. Man, was that ever a miscalculation. I can't believe the spending he and his pardners in crime (Congress) are planning in the first one hundred days. Unbelievable.

On top of higher taxes on the way, paying more for electricity (green energy), removal of deductions, higher prices (due to higher energy prices), our economy is not just going to wobble, its going to sink like a f'ing battleship.

What is going to make me, or any other entrepreneur to work 60 to 80 hours a week to start a business, if the Government is going to help themselves to the first six months of my labor? Screw that. I'll just sit on my ass like the other free loaders and wait around for a Government handout. Democrats haven't a clue how wealth is created.

Folks, if we can't elect some opposition in 2010 to undo some of this horror, our future as a wealthy and free country is dismal at best. The audacity of hope has become my worst nightmare.