A little humor for Monday.
GM, the VA of motor cars: Death and destruction. Oh wait, Obamacare, the VA future of our healthcare system.
Obama, the King Midas of fecal matter; everything he touches turns to shit.
GM is alive. Drivers are dead. Any questions?
By Oleg Atbashian | First published in PJ Media
Remember the arrogant 2012 bumper sticker based on Joe Biden’s boast at the DNC? “GM is alive. Bin Laden is dead. Any questions?”
Actually, I do have a question. Was Bin Laden driving GM’s Chevy Cobalt when he died?
It now appears that many American civilians with absolutely no connection to al-Qaeda have also become dead or injured while driving one of those small, fuel-efficient Chevrolet Cobalt, Pontiac G5, or Saturn Ion.
The Washington Post reports:
“An investigation into General Motors’ failure to recall millions of small cars containing a deadly ignition switch defect found a corporate culture in which employees failed to take responsibility for the problem, which has been linked to at least 13 deaths, said GM chief executive Mary T. Barra.”
This raises even more questions.
Notice the part about “a corporate culture in which employees failed to take responsibility for the problem.” Was it because the employees knew that they were too big to fail?
How many of them were members of the United Auto Workers? Obama had rewarded this labor union’s political shenanigans and donations to his campaign with 39 percent of General Motors. That alone should have taught the GM employees a lesson that real money comes, not from actual labor but from shady political dealings, and that honest work is for suckers.
General Motors waited more than a decade to recall their 2.6 million defective small cars worldwide. Obviously, the problem started long before the Obama administration decided to bail them out, thus rewarding bad behavior and costing Treasury a loss of roughly $10 billion.
That was yet another real-life lesson from which the GM employees could learn that withholding information is better than honest work, and that those who actually do honest work wind up paying for those who don’t. Now GM is going to establish a compensation program for the victims and their families. How much of that cost will be covered by a taxpayer-funded bailout?
And now for the final question. Using GM chief executive’s own language, who built that “corporate culture in which employees failed to take responsibility for the problem”?
According to her boss, the nation’s chief executive, no one in particular. In president Obama’s mind, businesses just happen to grow and develop their own cultures, like fungus. No one takes credit for a fungus culture; why should anyone take credit for a business culture? Whether you succeed or fail, the administration’s credo is, “You didn’t build that!”
GM officially confirms up to 13 deaths; trial lawyers are likely to raise the number to 60. Is that a fair cost of keeping GM alive? If so, how many lives and billions of taxpayer dollars will it take before the cost of this administration’s meddling with the economy becomes prohibitive? At what point will it stop being fair and become criminal?
Ayn Rand’s prophetic novel Atlas Shrugs has a chapter in which hundreds of people on a crowded train lose their lives because railroad employees have stopped taking responsibility for their actions. Their failure to take responsibility was a consequence of the nation’s new culture of “fairness” and “equality” that was being promoted by an intrusive “progressive” government. In a twist of dark irony, all the participants in the story were fully supportive of that “fair” culture – from the corrupt government officials to the cowardly railroad executives to the clueless passengers who never figured out what had doomed them to die in a smoke-filled tunnel.
It seems that today the Obama administration, the “progressive” politicians, the unions, and all their low-information supporters, many of whom are driving GM’s small, fuel-efficient cars, are writing an updated, real-life version of Atlas Shrugged, in which the story of General Motors is the latest contribution to this man-made dystopia.
Funny, somehow I didn’t know decision-makers in the executive suite were members of the Autoworkers union! Silly me.
I’m sure you folks have seen this, but it still blows me away.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/where-worlds-unsold-cars-go-die
DO YOU AGREE WITH JON VOIGHT?
As always, Jon Voight minced no words when it comes to Dear Leader, the democrats and the destruction they’ve caused inside our nation and worldwide as well. In my viewfinder in life he nailed it to a tee in many ways regarding various different topics that surround us now. After you read and watch what he had to say the other night, see if you agree or disagree with his way of thinking.
In remarks framed as a message to the American public, actor Jon Voight emotionally aired his political grievances for several minutes in a televised statement on Saturday.
Those grievances range from (but are not limited to) Benghazi, the IRS scandal, the “targeting” of conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, illegal immigration, the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case, the treatment of war veterans, the chaos in Iraq and deep reservations about President Obama.
“Five years ago, I stated that Obama would take the country apart piece-by-piece, that he would cause a civil war in this country,” Voight read on Saturday in a statement on Mike Huckabee’s Fox News show. “In hindsight we can see how many things have come to pass.”
“Let us remember, let us not forget Benghazi,” he continued. “Let us not say what difference does it make. Obama found a perfect way to put this under the rug, blaming Republicans, saying that they just want to find fault with his administration. And still to this day we still not know the truth.”
Now, here’s the second report. Some of this is repetitious…but you’ll get the drift just fine:
“I’m here because of my heavy heart that a great man, Dinesh D’Souza, a patriotic man – more patriotic than anyone that I can think of at this moment, present company excepted – is being aggressively, negatively targeted in many ways, and the latest targeting is the boycotting of the great important book America: Imagine A World Without Her, and his film is based on this book. It should be seen by every patriotic American. It is in theaters now.”
“Five years ago I stated that Obama would take the country apart piece by piece, that he would cause a civil war in this country,” Voight said. “In hindsight we can see how many things have come to pass.”
Voight said his “greatest heartache is that we sacrificed thousands of our American heroes, liberating Iraq, only for President Obama to pull out all troops, leaving Iraq now to be taken over by terrorists.”
Voight warned that Iran “will most definitely” obtain nuclear weapon capabilities and will not use them for peaceful purposes. “It will be to destroy Israel and America, as they have stated.”
“Let us not forget Benghazi,” Voight continued. “Let us not say ‘What difference does it make?’” Voight said, referring to Hillary Clinton’s heartless comments about the cause of the terrorist attack, in which she left four Americans to die. “Still to this day, we don’t know the truth,” Voight said.
Voight went on to highly condemn the Obama IRS and VA scandals, as well as dropping a bomb in the culture war on congresswoman and head of the DNC (Democratic National Committee), Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Read more at http://angrywhitedude.com/2014/07/question-day-agree-jon-voight/#DBqGZuqFJ7DXuJbP.99
If one of my kids,a brother or a sister, my parents or my wife were killed because of the criminal negligence of those at GM,I wouldn’t get mad…I’d get even .
It let the legal system have it’s turn. I carefully listen to the testimony of those in charge. I determine who was at the top rung of the ladder that caused the death of my loved one . If they got jail time then the legal system worked . If GM got a civil fine and that person/persons walked away free…..well after I’m done…they won’t be walking.
This is exactly what Corporate America needs…street justice . Watch the movie “The Jack Bull ” for reference.
There were 34,000 deaths on US roads in 2012. These deaths can be reduced by spending money. Lots of money spent would reduce lots of deaths – hundreds of thousands of deaths ultimately could be prevented by governments spending a couple of trillion or whatever. Government actuaries can calculate all of this. Each life has a calculated price, and the government will not spend more than that to reduce a death.
So it is ok for the government to decide not to spend money and let people die, but when a private corporation does it it is the embodiment of evil.
GM didn’t want the cost of the recall, and 13 people died. The US and state governments do not want the cost of improving infrastructure so hundreds of thousands will die.
For fuck sake, get some perspective. What GM did is wrong, but it pales in comparison to what the government does to the people every single day.
And BTW, I HATE GM, but there is nothing to see here.
Obama made the unions whole, installed incompetent management, and people died. No big surprise.
The government is run by incompetent union drones, making 60% more than the same person in the private sector, massive pensions, healthcare, retire at 50, 20 million blood sucking parasites.
Fucking unions and their lawyers/lobbyists are killing this country
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AWD, the good news is that organized crime, er, labor, always dooms itself by awarding its members absurd salary and benefit packages in exchange for votes.
The result is predictable: Poorer quality (why work harder when the lazy a-hole next to you gets the same compensation?), higher input costs, reduced capital investment, lower profitability (followed by net losses), offshoring, and eventually bankruptcy.
Witness the debacle known as Detroit. They transformed what was once the highest per capita income producing city in the 60s into the fetid shithole it is today.
It’s going to get interesting when these unionized mental giants see their EBT cards aren’t buying squat anymore. Hungry people become irrational. Irrational people resort to indiscriminate violence.
Got gold?
ObamaCar, to be given out to the FSA….runs on lies, bullshit, free shit, and socialism….
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This story is now translated into Russian and published in a St. Petersburg news site, which is part of the local libertarian/conservative radio station.
http://rln.fm/arhiv/politics/foreigner/ … prosy.html – See more at: http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/gm-is-alive-drivers-are-dead-any-questions-t14497.html#sthash.DD3UWyq7.dpuf
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