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POPSThe First 500 Pages of Obamacare
• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens • Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan. • Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter. • Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed. • Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages. • Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives. • Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families. • Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll • Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option,
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POPSKey Boeing factory goes non-union "....(along with the vastly diminished UAW ranks) has got to scare the labor bosses. They will retaliate, I am certain. And they will use their political clout to do so." Are businesses now going to join us regular people in the efforts to take back our Country? I know that once-upon-a-time unions were a God-send to the working, blue-collar class. However, like most all good things, over time they are distorted, become arrogant & greedy and end up hurting those for whom they were first created.
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POPSJust say No to Government Motors and Obamacars
History tells us that ventures between government and private enterprise are highly unlikely to succeed. Rolls Royce and British Leyland Motor Corporation were nationalized by the British government. Neither intervention succeeded in making either company profitable. The DNA of America is coded with private enterprise and individual risk-taking and reward. The idea of the government owning businesses of any sort is not merely bad economics, it is terrible government. Any American who values their traditions of free enterprise and political freedom will urge the federal government to disinvest itself from these companies immediately. The federal government can quickly put its controlling stake in the companies on the market and do so at whatever price makes the market. There are plenty of great cars out there. You don't have to buy one that costs not just your cash, but also your commitment to free enterprise and all the benefits that flow from it.
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POPSdeath and taxes = Obamacare Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure. Page 29: Health care will be rationed. Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process) Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None. Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services. Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard. Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer. Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN) Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange. Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government c
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POPS0bama, Big Business, And The Fall Of Capitalism Once-proud companies like GE have become seduced by global-warming schemes because they recognize that there’s more money to be made selling white elephants to Uncle Sam than there is selling competitive products consumers want. Indeed, cap-and-trade taxes promise to deliver precisely the protectionist industrial policies the Left has dreamed of for decades, only under a “progressive” label. Also this week, the White House announced its plan to deal with “systemic risk” in the financial markets. The basic idea is that big firms " giant banks, insurance companies, etc. " cannot be allowed to fail if their failure threatens something called “stability.” The Obama administration is confident that with its new organizational flow charts and enhanced job description for the Federal Reserve, bureaucrats will suddenly see clearly what they couldn’t see before.
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POPSI'm Not Buying GM or Chrysler Should be interesting to see these two companies flounder to their evenutal government-run destruction. Of course it would be nice if they weren't burning up my money to do it. But The Messiah has stolen.
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POPSObama Administration to Supremes: We are Above the Law ~ Supremes to Obama: Go Pound Sand Fortunately, the high court ruled this afternoon that the administration is full of s*** and that indeed it does have the authority to delay the Chrsyler sale. Ahead of the decision, Chrysler LLC and the federal government warned such an intervention might lead to the liquidation of the automaker. But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a brief order, said the court will extend a temporary stay put in place by an appeals court "pending further order of the undersigned or of the court." The administration -- who always seems to be in a hurry, whether it's spending trillions of dollars on useless government pork, destroying the health care system, or simply nationalizing automakers -- argued that the delay would scuttle the deal. But dissenters were equally clear-cut on reasons to oppose the deal. The bankruptcy laws were written so that companies could dramatically overhaul themselves, becoming leaner and more efficient enterprises.
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POPS The Debunking Of Obama's Statement ABC 6 reported earlier today that Barney Frank flipped the President the bird -- metaphorically, that is -- by micro-managing GM's corporate activities. ..."The UAW is very appreciative of Congressman Frank's assistance," said Bob Madore, Director of UAW Region 9A. "The workers in Norton now have some time to show how important their plant is to GM's overall operations. Representative Frank is a congressman who doesn't just talk the talk for workers - he walks with us and we walk with him". A whole 80 employees qualifies as a "fundamental corporate decision"? Well, that debunking of Obama's statement didn't take long. Usually it's a full week before his public statements are exposed as pure fiction.
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POPS Government Motors "Long Live GM" “We don’t think that after this next $30 billion, they will need more money,” one administration official said. “But the fact is there are things you don’t know — like when the car market will come back, and how much Toyota and Honda and Volkswagen will benefit from the chaos.” ] In other words, if Toyota and Honda and Ford and all the other non-nationalized car manufacturers keep doing a better job than GM of making cars Americans actually want to buy then the government will continue to use your tax dollars to bail out GM. Why? Because Obama and the Democrats have decided that they need to keep General Motors alive as a host for the union parasites at the UAW. Meaning that the rest of you working schlubs out there are going to have to pay more taxes to subsidize the union wages of the Chrysler and General Motors employees. If you’re thinking that sounds like a crappy deal, it is.
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POPS Stiffing GM's Creditors Will Backfire The Law: Sure as the sun rises, the U.S. government's manhandling of GM and Chrysler bondholders will ripple outward, striking not only companies and their creditors but the very basis for U.S. power and prosperity. Historians pinpoint the beginnings of U.S. power at 1811, with the liquidation of the First Bank of the United States, founded by Alexander Hamilton. Amid the winds of the War of 1812, First Bank ignored political pressure and insisted that even British bondholders, from the nation the U.S. was preparing to fight, be paid in full. The debt was paid because that was the law. This single act reverberated for years. Word got back to Europe that the word of this fledgling country was good, even with enemies. As a result, European capital to finance the great steamships, railroads and other engines of American growth flowed. "The return of their funds became an important chapter in American finance because it showed that the government was willing . . .
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POPSShocker: Obama-Run General Motors To Start Outsourcing Car Manufacturing What this illustrates is that the problem with the domestic auto industry all along has been exorbitant labor costs. Or, put more bluntly, the problem has been the UAW. In order to become solvent going forward General Motors most find a cheaper labor pool so that it can compete with its foreign counterparts. That means getting away from the UAW in Mexico, among other places. In summary, we could have saved ourselves billions in bailouts and kept GM’s jobs in America if the Obama administration hadn’t insisted in essentially taking the company over so that the UAW’s labor contracts wouldn’t be re-negotiated in bankruptcy. Now that the UAW has been so artfully protected by Obama, GM has to go overseas to remain profitable. And if Obama blocks this move toward outsourcing (and he can’t be that stupid as even he knows he’s now tied to GM’s future), the company will collapse.
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POPSBought & Paid For By The UAW * The PAC spent $ 13.1 million, making it the #14 PAC in the country, and placing it ahead of all business PACs except for the National Association of Realtors * $4.9 million in reported independent expenditures, all of it dedicated to helping elect Barack Obama * More than $2 million in direct contributions to candidates, with 99% of it going to Democrats
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POPSunBeF%#!kinglievable What's to stop Chrysler or GM from offering warranties that last far beyond the life of their companies? How many forms will you have to fill out to get warranty work done? Will it be any easier to get help than the it is under the federal Lemon Law? You'd have to be a fool to buy a car from either one of them today.
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POPSMickey Kaus: Wagoner: Obama’s Diem? ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader emails: “Will Obama be getting rid of the head of the UAW also?” Gettelfinger should go, but won’t. Responsibility is kinda selective here . . . .
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POPSOn the UAW Bullies Wrecking a Town of 50 The organizing attempt was through Card Check, a labor bill that is being pushed by the Senate. Card Check means that if you want a union, you sign a card, if you don’t, you don’t sign. The evil here is that everyone knows how you voted. After the vote, which was close, the union lost. As were friendships and relationships of the people living there, presumably in happy peace. The eggs of lives were broken. Strapped for money to defend themselves, many of these towns and churches simply caved and the ACLU marched away triumphant, these mighty legal armies having proudly pummeled their puny targets like a tank destroying a defenseless shack in its way. And now Card Check activists are following the same tactic. These people are vicious and evil. And it’s typical of the side that says they’re on the side of the angels. http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/video/card_check_united_auto_workers_try_to_unionize_indiana/
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POPSObama Rescue Buys New GM Car For Each New Bureaucrat "The president's plan creates new jobs in government and that trickles down to the private sector," said Mr. Geithner. "This is a great example of the kind of public-private partnership that will lead America into a swirling vortex of ever-intensifying prosperity. GM will be hard pressed to keep up with the demand." The president will pay for the plan through a 50 percent "luxury tax" on privately-purchased cars that have more than two doors or four cylinders, or that emit carbon monoxide. "As the old saying goes, what's good for the UAW is good for UAW leaders," Mr. Geithner said. "The only way America can sustain its vibrant capitalist economy is by making the stark choice between risk and reward. Speaking for the president and the Treasury department, we choose reward." Examiner columnist Scott Ott is editor-in-chief of ScrappleFace.com, the family-friendly news satire site, and anchor of ScrappleFace Network News (SNN), seen on YouTube.
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POPSChina grows while the West continues it's descent Over the past ten years, under the radar and the "global economy" BS, they sent their suppliers jobs to China. Now, there customers are there. Which will work fine until the day the Chinese slam shut their borders-keeping our technology, investments and products. Wake up people. This mess is not "subprime mortgages". It is lack of family supporting JOBS. And I'm not talking about the whineass UAW workers jobs. Continue allowing the government to shove high tech and globalization down your throats. Harsh poverty is coming. This is going to make the "Great Depression" seem like a walk in the park.
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POPS The Economic "Stimulus" by Thomas Sowell It was not just a gift of money-- huge though that is-- it is also a gift of exemption from Republican criticism, even for the bailout of General Motors, which President Bush began, even when Congress refused to give GM the money without preconditions. It is a political get-out-of-jail-free card that can cover whatever disasters the Democrats create on their own in the years ahead. Does spending on infrastructure mean that the money is going to be spent filling potholes and repairing bridges? Or will it be spent creating new things? One of the key reasons why infrastructure gets neglected, in the first place, is that there is very little political pay-off to filling potholes and repairing bridges, compared to spending that same money creating community centers, bike paths and other things. These new things create opportunities for ribbon-cutting ceremonies that give politicians favorable free publicity in the media.
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POPSYour 2008-09 Toilet Bowl Previews: Compliments Of GMACBowl & UAW GMAC Bowl No. 22 Ball State vs. Tulsa Jan. 6, 8:00 pm Mobile, AL Ball State and Tulsa just signed a contract with the UAW. But don’t worry, GMAC is going to use $15 billion dollars of bailout money to restructure the game, only to prolong an inevitable filing for chapter 11. American taxpayers are loving this bowl. (Yeah we can get political, and if you don’t like it, fuck off). *** Your 2008-09 Toilet Bowl Previews http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/blog/2008/12/the-200809-toilet-bowl-previews.html
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