Posted by
rycK on Saturday, December 20, 2008 10:13:32 AM
Herbert Moans about
Hope Amidst the Gloom of Unionism. There
is Not Enough Corruption.
We are
always excited to study and digest the frenetic political theorizing that is proffered as thinking at the New York Times—aka the Walter Duranty Papers. When any economic or political event transpires
the diligent workers at this soon-to-go-bankrupt rag sob and moan and get the
propaganda machines humming so that the public might be reeducated. Herbert,
in today’s article in the soon-t0-be-bankrupt Times reshuffles his authorized
stack of soiled clichés and ‘teaches’ us all about equality and fairness and
calls for money to be shoveled into sacred leftist causes such as unionism.
Whatever happens in the economy, we need to raise taxes.
“Is the end of the war in sight?...
I don’t mean Iraq. I’m talking about the war against
working people in the U.S. that has taken such
a vicious economic toll over the past three decades.”-- Hope Amid the Gloom By Bob Herbert Op-Ed Columnist
Published: December 20, 2008 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]
What
Herbert ought to be saying is this: Is the war against the business community,
the ones who provide ALL of our tax revenues to our worthless government, over
yet? Herbert can whine about jobs and bonuses and who washes before going to
work and decidedly omits a coherent discussion on how our society works. He
practices stoogery.
In a fog of class prejudice and
ignorance our hero for the day makes statements like this:
“On Friday, George W. Bush, in the slapstick final weeks of
his disastrous presidency, grudgingly announced that, yes, emergency loans
would be made available to prevent the collapse of the U.S. auto industry. He
looked like a boy who had been forced to eat his spinach, or drink his castor
oil.”
The UAW is partly lazy, criminalistic and
greedy and has destroyed several industries like the railroads, steel, and the
airlines and now the auto industry. Where
is the Herbert essay on why and how Toyota, Honda, Hyundai and Volkswagen seems to be doing well, making
profits without problems like Detroit? Is this related to the union sh0ps? Where is the record of union
corruption, like the Teamsters for instance, in a propaganda piece like this
from Herbert? He omits any criticism of unions. Where is the dissertation on productivity and the contrast comparing union versus non union plants in the US? The market for cars is down 40% across the globe and Detroit has about 7 months of inventory sitting around in parking lots
and we need to pay union types to do what? Sit around and not make cars at $75
an hour? That kind of business logic works only for a moron, a greedy precinct
worker or a socialist. The mindless dolts who sit around at HUD or Social
Security have jobs like that.
Bob Herbert is like a hurdy-gurdy grinder: he
has only one song and it is to get money from the tax payers. Herbert
celebrates our wasting more tax money or, worse, as freshly printed paper based
on absolutely nothing, on those whose excessive salaries and benefits exceed
their value in the market place. He is a
grunt-and-grab songster who can only moan about the ‘little guy’ and ignores
the facts about capitalism.
“But the
economy is in such an awful state that even the most backward administration of
our lifetime recognized that risking the chain reaction of a complete auto
industry meltdown was not an option. (The Bush deal is unfairly onerous to auto workers, but
the loans will serve as a bridge to the Obama era, when, presumably, a more
equitable arrangement could be worked out.”
The onerous
part here is that the union work rules and excessive salaries and phony legacy
costs will be on the political line. GM,
alone, is $60 bln in debt and has NO CHANCE to recover unless some or all of that
debt is restructured. Bankruptcy is not an option for the drooling left because
those nasty union contracts will be set aside. O’Bozo
can only throw good money after bad and he will do just that and Detroit will sink further into debt,
union corruption and socialism.
There is no hope
for Chrysler and GM but the use of the tax payer’s money to pay off the unions
for their votes can only continue with bailouts every few months or so. We are in a deflationary spiral and going down
economically and wages must fall. Detroit will find out about that soon.
There is not enough money to fix deflation now and it may get worse.
We don’t
make very many TVs, transistors, microscopes, cameras and other electronics
goodies any more and we have somehow survived.
How is that possible? Where did all the lost jobs go and how did we have
4.5% unemployment during the Bush2 years? Bankruptcy is obvious in this case
and the only way to reconstruct this business sector if it has any chance to
compete in the world of automobiles. The greedy unions have priced themselves
out of the job market.
Herbert
cannot broach the subject of Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy statute or even
wonder why the Treasury has rescued banks and similar institutions. Apparently,
he would have rather seen bailout money go to favored union-dominate business
and let the banking system collapse. We
expect such grunts from the ignoranti.
It is to
the benefit of all American citizens to not buy any Detroit cars for two reasons: [1] it will only
prolong the bailout costs and burden us with more hopeless debt and [2] it will
prevent the slimy EcoNazi
from micromanaging the
industry and producing auto products that we will not buy like electric cars or
even want to.
Boycott Detroit and Save Your Tax Money.
rycK
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