In an increasingly advanced effort to show its total lack of respect for the Constitution and private contracts, and its extreme arrogance and hubris, the U.S. government has forced General Motors head Rick Wagoner to resign as a condition for the company receiving a government LOAN. According to an article on Politico, in all it's unfounded wisdom, knowledge, and experience in running industries, the government has formed a "task force" that will be responsible for dictating to General Motors what changes it should make, how high it should jump, and how exactly it should dance in the street with government bullets flying toward its feet (oh, I almost forgot, bullets aren't available anymore).
"The Obama administration calls its task force “a cabinet-level group that includes the secretaries of Transportation, Commerce, Labor and Energy. It will also include the chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the EPA administrator, and the director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change. The Task Force will be led by Treasury Secretary [Tim] Geithner and [National Economic Council] Director Larry Summers.”
Wow. I feel much better now. Just knowing all those bureaucrats are on the scene now will help me sleep soundly. I'm sure that they will be more effective than the highly admired Rick Wagoner of 30 years experience on the front lines.
AMERICA, have we lost our minds?
WHY are we letting the government take over the direction and leadership of our private industry?
WHY do these bureaucrats think they have the authority? I certainly can't find it in any of our founding documents!
WHY do they think they are qualified? I have never seen such arrogance in my entire life! (and that's saying something, belive me!)
Let me see, the government causes much of what's going on in this bad economy because of their insane economic policies. Then they say they are going to "bail us out" with even more lunatic economic policies. When this makes matters worse, and the very industries that have won us our freedom in past wars and have generated long-term jobs and lifestyle for MILLIONS of Americans, are dying on the vine because of it, then they DARE dictate terms to the struggling companies?
This is like shooting a father and taking over his family because he is unfit to provide for them!
Has anybody read Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand? It's just as she predicted. Only it hurts more when it's not fictitous, and you see freedom being murdered in real life.
As spoken by Rand's government crony purchasing manager to the industrial magnate hero: "No Mr. Reardon, it's one or the other. Either you're good at running the mills, or you're good at running to Washington."
It's one or the other, folks: bigger freedom, or bigger government.
The two cannot co-exist.
