The Old Red Lady of The Old Gray
Lady Instructs Us in Car Purchases And Other
Societal Matters
The Dowdy Dowd--aka The Old Red Lady
of The Old Gray
Lady –writing in the Walter Duranty Papers
--is known to flaunt her opinions with an acidic flamboyance while glossing
over a few singular bits and pieces that would derail her argument if they were
permitted in her blistering texts. It
has been some time since she waxed worthy of my attention as the economic
voodoo dances of Paul Krugman
and the Convoluted Mental Follies of Our Babbling David Brooks
have been more interesting of late. Dowd has finally passed from her virulent attacks
on Sarah Palin as
she scoured every dumpster and rabbit hole in Alaska in search of political dirt,
and now and seems to be back to her normal occupation that of stirring the liberal cauldron so as to
persuade the disnimble that words and
taxes and massive spending can salvage the US Economy. It must be time to
rescue young O’Bozo
from his inheritance. The economy is crashing and the liberals are
celebrating with more spending. These
derailing points are omitted from her screed.
“As President Obama renegotiates the terms of American
leadership this week in Europe, those of us left at
home struggle to get over our affluenza. That condition, the
bane of the middle class, is defined in a book of the same name as “a painful,
contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste
resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.”
Resume Propaganda Generation:
We now
get back to leftist dogma. Apparently the dogged pursuit
of more taxes is immune to affluenza . It appeared, for a while,
that Maureen’s
handlers had let her slip from the essence of reality that now stimulates certain
prose guidelines in a bankrupt newspaper. The oblique message here is that we are too
successful and need a lesson in humility. After all, how many Africans drive
Hummers?
How many in Cambodia or Cuba? But, what do we do with the “debt” reference above? She ignores the
debt?!!
“The president is obviously worried about leaving us alone
and under the economic weather…[this goes no
where..rycK]…[shift
to some government advice]:
“Economic turmoil (e.g., increased
unemployment, foreclosures, loss of investments and other financial distress)
can result in a whole host of negative health effects — both physical and
mental,” the government Web page sympathized, offering warning signs such as
“persistent sadness/crying” and “excessive irritability/anger” and tips for
managing stress, including: “Trying to keep things in perspective — recognize
the good aspects of life and retain hope for the future.” And one particularly useful for Rick Wagoner and those of
us in the newspaper business: Develop new employment skills.”
We
wonder if taking more drugs or smoking medicinal marijuana would help out.
“I heard a French scientist on a radio show
once explain that Americans would always insist on supersizing things because
our “reptilian brain” likes things big. We’re still big, as Norma Desmond said.
It’s everything around us that’s collapsing and shrinking.”
That must be true. Frogs are amphibians.
Now, we search for answers to the
imponderables:
“How big do we need to be to still feel
American? How big can our national debt grow? How big can our cars be? And how
big is our clout abroad these days? Will Michelle’s style in Europe make as big a splash as Carla
Bruni-Sarkozy’s?”
Michelle
needs to get back on the Angry Black
Woman theme
and intimidate the ‘bigness’ out of us.
Back onto Hummers:
“But Mr. Obama’s move [firing the CEO of GM...ed] was
bracing, a sign, at long last, that the president will not tolerate failure, not when he has to print all the money in
the universe to underwrite obtuseness. Wagoner showed no foresight or willingness
to curb an unhealthy
appetite for the big. He failed to eliminate brands and launched the
Hummer line in 2001. (Hummers remain icons of power in Iraq.)”
A Quiz: If
GM is 60 bln in debt then how much sales volume do they have to generate to pay
off this with a 10% profit? Answer: 660 bln dollars. How many cars is that at
$30,000 for a ‘small car?’ See the answer in this footnote:[11]
I wonder how a healthy appetite we have for such a huge number of cars. By the
way, what should Honda and Toyota do? Just quit selling cars
because they are not unionized? That is a great political solution. So GM can have a 100% share of falling sales
volumes:
“The Ford Motor Company, the
only Detroit automaker not taking
federal aid, reported a 41 percent decline. Sales fell 39 percent at Toyota, 38 percent
at Nissan and 36 percent at Honda.”--
Auto Sales for March Offer Hope. New
York Times Apr 1, 2009.
Gee, that
sounds great! Why not subsidize GM by giving out 100,000,000 vouchers for free
cars as long as we are thinking big and spending a bunch of money? Free cars
ought to attract some urgently needed votes for the problems the liberals see
in 2010 at the polls. So, will O’Bozo tolerate failure after he ‘fixes’ up GM? Spending and inflation are not a problem
we must conclude.
A number count: It seems that “Automakers sold 857,735 light vehicles last month, a 37 percent
decline from a year earlier, according to Autodata Inc.” That is 14 million cars by last year’s
standards. Is it true that if GM as a 10% share it can only sell 1.4 million
cars and they are about 20,000,000 cars short after you check out the footnote?
A 20% share doesn’t help. The other salient matter is that they have lost 82 bln dollars in the last 5 years and
cannot seem to sell cars at a profit! What GM needs is a 157% share. Can Barney Frank [Backside Barney] manage to get that through Congress?
The French are
right! This is a big reptilian episode in finance and government nonsense.
Dowd wonders off into Lala Land and finishes off her insanity with this fluff:
“But
Detroit defiantly stuck its head in the sand. A lot of longtime auto
watchers felt relief and excitement at Wagoner’s crisp dismissal, knowing that
the reckoning is at last here. The problems in the car industry have been so
apparent for so long, and the failure to face up to them and move into a greener future has been so frustrating.
President Obama must nurse us through our affluenza, addressing
both our visceral need to be big and our cerebral decision to be leaner — and
much, much smarter.”--Dowd
Don’t worry Maureen, O’Bozo is working on the affluenza
affliction. Our need [or ability] for the average person to buy a new big
car will certainly diminish in the near future. Keep printing money and we can
all be rich enough to afford small cars. That makes sense to a liberal. Obama
knows all about auto production. We are in great shape.
For the first time in my adult
life I am ashamed of my country.
rycK
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