The biggest problem I have with the whole Auto Industry Bailout thing is one of intent: when the American Big 3 automakers (GM, Ford and Chrysler) came to the government in search of aid, their initial line of reasoning was NOT “Look, we understand we’ve been jacking off for the past decade and are now reaping the consequences of our admittedly American business tactics. For some strange reason, the Japanese pursued higher efficiency, better technology, and overall operational streamlining INSTEAD of our brilliant, bludgeon-the-consumer-over-the-head-with-advertising-while-our-vehicle-standards-plummet approach, and that has lead – QUITE unfairly, I might add – to the Japanese earning profits that cannot be adequately mathematically described as a percentage of our own because OUR profits are a fucking NEGATIVE NUMBER. Therefore, we are in dire god damn need of a huge fuck-off loan or at LEAST a nice governmental stock purchase like the Financial Industry got. And exactly WHOSE dick got sucked to seal THAT deal?” No no NO, the overture of choice was “Hey, give us tons of relatively oversight free cash or we swear to whatever god you care to name that we’ll go right into bankruptcy and take millions of American jobs with us.”
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This was sent to me this morning by my beloved sister-in-law… I plan on doing a bigger piece on this subject later/when I have time, so for now, here’s what was sent to me. You can see how it might give me ideas; as a brief preview: the entire point of Capitalism was that companies that saw successes or were useful to the American people (and thus saw successes) and could do either of these things WITHOUT the need for government intervention (aka Socialism) were able to survive and prosper in the general marketplace. Those that could NOT either changed the way they did business OR were doomed to failure and dissolution. Holding tens of thousands of American jobs hostage does not mean we should give the hostage taker what he wants; we should shoot his ass and free up his resources so that other, more honest businesses may flourish.
That’s right: I’m back, bitches.