Obama Blames The Bad Economy On Americans Inability To “Think Clearly”

GM 2010 US Sales as of this minute are:

Buick has 142,354

Cadillac has 131,132

Chevy has 1,466,229

GMC has 287,833

Chrysler was bailed out, too.

Chrysler has 197,427

Ford was NOT bailed out.

Ford has 1,626,187

All the rest are here.

You know, I am beginning to think this president is not ready for prime time!

Same Old Song and Dance

Tim Hawkins – The Government Can

Ummm greg, you ignorant sl*t, it has been proven tax cuts don’t increase the deficit. In fact, it was proven in this very thread! You failed to rebutt ANY of it to boot. You are only proving that liberals are mentally ill with your posts.

Let’s look at your source while we are at it. Oh, what a shock!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schlesinger

“Robert Schlesinger is opinion editor at U.S. News and World Report, a liberal blogger on Thomas Jefferson Street and the Huffington Post, and writes a biweekly column for U.S. News….”

Way to pick a credible source. Buwahahahahaha!

The Fix Is In! Rep. Barney Frank Delays Local GM Plant Closure

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2009/06/the-fix-is-in-rep-barney-frank-delays-local-plant-closure/

You, TTAC’s Best and Brightest, knew it was going to happen: that unfortunate intersection of business and politics, where the taxpayer-supported GM would be forced by its new masters to place the latter ahead of the former. In other words, brain dead zombies are easily led. The Hill reports that Massachusetts Congressional Representative Barney Frank has “convinced” GM to keep a parts operation in his district open for business. “Frank’s staff said the lawmaker spokes with GM CEO Fritz Henderson on Wednesday and convinced him to keep the Norton, Mass., plant open for at least 14 months.”

“I greatly appreciate General Motors’ willingness to take into consideration the wider needs of the company and especially the community,” Frank said in a statement. “Keeping the facility open for this extra time gives workers a chance to look at other opportunities, while at the same time continuing to provide for their families.”

Need we (and the Hill) point out that Barney is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee? You know, the pols that oversee the government’s bailout program, under which GM has received $50 billion? No, I didn’t think so. [Thanks to lw for the link.]

This reminds me of military base closings in the 90s. Everyone was so supportive of The Peace Dividend and getting rid of military institutions so we could have more money to spend. But no one wanted a base closed in THEIR district. Now we are going to see factories kept open to make door hinges, rakes, whatever so that our elected representatives can stay in office.

How about we just give the damn politicians a billion dollars to step down and go away? A billion each might seem like a lot but considering how much money 535 people can spend in a year it’s a bargain really.

Barney is really entertaining. It’s hard to believe he has this much power. We deserve better, in fact we should hold special elections for these Chairs, not let them go to senior members or favorites of the leaders in each house.

But since they are taking over manufacturing and health care I think the days of self determination are coming to an end.

Really though, Frank is the worst example of a political whore in Washington, right on the level of Tom DeLay a few years back.

All to support the UAW Bosses that throw a lot of Cash at Democrats.

Marti, that look like a skeam directly from the mafia world,
bye

ilovebeeswarm:

Marti, that look like a skeam directly from the mafia world,
bye

Under Rules for Radicals, the Means Justify the Ends. Gotta be winner and losers. In Obama’s world, the people are always the losers. Got that Greg. Union workers are fools. Damn fools.

I think someone posting on this thread works for the government since they care nothing about tax revenue or what it might mean.

In order to find out who Obama really is, we have to fire him first.

@ GSH, yup. So I reckon that I can sit in on the next board meeting then? Or be present to negotiate the next Union Contract since the next three or four generations of my offspring will be paying on the debt for this nonsense, which by the way is not covered by any Constitutional Mandate to interfere with the Private Sector in this fashion or support underfunded pension plans or underfunded benefits for those that retired from that industry? Sounds like buying Union Votes to me.

I raise beef cattle, employ directly over 30 folks and am not Government Subsidized. How big a Safety Net is sustainable on the back of the Taxpayer?

No business is too big to fail.

MataHarley:

Yo, Marti… did you factor in the plug in/electric bills too? :0) And thanks for doing the math that so many are either unable, or reticent, to do when it comes down to purchasing “fuel efficient vehicles” vs lifespan.

No. I stopped at the gasoline. It’s too time consuming to try to calculate the gasoline based on the future price point of a BBL of oil in 2014. I calculated a increase of 92 cents per gallon spread over the 3 year period adjusted for the decline in value of the dollar which means the price may actually go higher but the dollar will devalue. My big giant brain can only do so much in 15 minutes. Greg, on the other hand, has to try to function on about 4 neurons and that is why he stops at being a democrat and is stuck on stupid. We brilliant people with giant brains have to explain simple things like this to stupid people democrats and people like Obama who are so arrogant and unwilling to deal with cold hard facts. Don’t get me going on climate change. That math is a real bitch.

Greg also needs to know that I automatically delete 20 points for college educated nerds. 30 points for graduates of state funded schools and 50 points off for Ivy League schools. Self educated and home schooled intelligencia start with a 110 points and go up there depending on evaluation. Having read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is an automatic 10 point plus. This is the grading system. And you are enjoying a 110 point starting score.

Subject: Do Japanese autoworkers make more than American autoworkers?

http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/89-63605.aspx

At Nissan Japan, they make about $24 an hour:

(Quote)
“The union negotiates annual raises, but each worker can haggle for individual performance-based raises at Nissan. Averaging $2,870 a month with an additional $17,200 average bonus a year, Nissan workers make way over the nation’s overall average of $2,260 per monthly paycheck. Workers with special skills like Kanazawa make more.

Union talks earlier this year added an average $54 to the monthly paycheck. Nissan covers 80 percent of workers’ medical bills, entitles workers to 20 vacation days, and adds up to $49 in extra compensation a month for dangerous and skilled jobs.”
(Unquote)

Detroit’s labor problems have to do not only with overly high benefits and work rules that reduce productivity and add cost, it’s also got to do with grass cutters being defined as (and paid like) autoworkers:

(Quote)
“Take grass cutting. As defined by the current United Auto Worker contract negotiated with the “Big Five” (GM, Ford, Chrysler, and top parts makers Delphi and Visteon), an auto “production worker” is a job description that covers anything from mowing grass to cleaning the toilets. In the real world, these jobs would be outsourced to $8 an hour, no-benefit wage earners, but on Planet Big Five, these jobs get the same wages as any auto line-worker: an average $26 an hour ($60,000 a year) plus benefits that bring the company’s total cost per worker to a staggering $65 an hour.

But at least the grass cutters are working for their pay. The UAW contract also guarantees that 12,000 autoworkers get full wage for doing nothing. On the heels of Miller’s straight-talk, the Detroit News reported that “12,000 American autoworkers, instead of bending sheet metal, spend their days counting the hours in a jobs bank.” These aren’t jobs. And they certainly aren’t being “lost” to China.

“We just go in (to Ford’s Michigan Truck Plant) and play crossword puzzles, watch videos that someone brings in or read the newspaper,” The News quoted one UAW worker as saying. “Otherwise, I’ve just sat.”

For Delphi, this idled labor cost $400 million in the second quarter of this year alone. Facing similar numbers until the contract’s end in 2007, Delphi took refuge in bankruptcy. “The jobs bank must be eliminated,” says Miller. “Paying people not to work is just not sustainable.”

As the auto companies have increased productivity through automation, the UAW calculated that jobs banks would make it too expensive for automakers to close plants and lay off workers. While that plan has worked, it has severely damaged the long-term viability of the industry ? and by extension, future job creation. It also led to this week’s GM bloodbath, as the company struggles to close a wage gap with American internationals (foreign automakers manufacturing in the U.S.) that now stands at $1319 per vehicle produced.”
(Unquote)

Because Detroit spends more on labor than Japan, and has to sell for lower base prices, the difference shows up somewhere. That somewhere is lower quality parts that break a lot faster. You don’t always get what you pay for, but you never get what you don’t pay for. And when you buy a Detroit car, you are not paying for quality – you are paying for grass cutters and janitors to get auto worker wages.

Think of this the next time you drive a Detroit car and it breaks on you. It’s got nothing to do with bad luck and everything to do with Detroit’s corner cutting to make up for its high cost labor force. Replacing parts won’t help, since Detroit’s partsmakers operate under the same UAW rules that resulted in substandard parts (via corner-cutting to remain price-competitive with Japanese makes) in the first place. I am certain that Detroit could make a high quality sub-compact car for $25,000. But foreign makes are selling them for $15,000.

OLD TROOPER 2: yes congratulation on your 100, you hit it without effort,
well I will watch the next one, to be 200. bye

MISSY I guess you where eying it too, when OT sweept it under you,
at the last second. bye