Fairly lengthy blog, but a good read:
AP Writer Calvin Woodward’s got it right in “PROMISES PROMISES: Obama tax pledge up in smoke…“
Welcome to the world of non-change change. We elect someone on the promise of bringing change and instead get higher taxes, an administration chock-full of ex-Clintonistas, a crappy economy and moving more troops to obscure places. So, where’s the change? I mean besides trying to disarm Americans and erase what’s left of the tattered Constitution that the Patriot Acts didn’t didn’t already dismember on the republicorps’ watch?
Oh, I’m sorry: Yes, there is change. I apologize. Now the government can ask for the head-on-a platter of a CEO if a big company doesn’t toe the mark. We haven’t seen the end of that yet, or so it seems from reading the CBS piece on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s vision of a planned economy. Want to know how it all turns out this fall? Ever read a history of the Soviet Union.?
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Meantime, it doesn’t help, of course that the republicorps are doing their damnedest to scuttle any would-be economic recovery, since they were able to foist a steaming lump-o-crap economy off on the new kids (the Obama crew less Clintonistas). In fact, it sez right here — and this comes from Karl Rove so you know it must be true (sound of el Don being poured) that “The president is ‘keeping score‘” referring to his former boss.
And the evils of partisanship were further underscored as former veep-Dick “Cheney emerges from cave to attack Obama”. Ah, such behavior provides plenty of visual content for our resident cartoon genius Rebecca Price...
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While there is much more to the article, they hit on a point regarding the firing of the CEO of GM. People have been warning religious institutions (especially private schools) about the dangers of accepting government funds, and now their concerns have been proven to be well-grounded. Just because a company has accepted funds, the government now has the right to just go in and fire their personnel? The ironic thing, of course, is I happened to overhear Obama's speech on Monday when he said -- emphatically, no less -- that the government was not interested in running General Motors, and then less than 24 hours later, he was making a very intrusive and major decision in their business.
This is really scary stuff as the government has clearly overstepped their bounds by a long shot. Is any company CEO (or regular employee for that matter) from the government telling them that they are canned?