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POPSUS 'Unlikely' to Recoup Auto Outlay, Panel Finds What a hoot! As if we did not know. Billions of dollars gone down the drain. Why would not letting the the markets do their thing have been a better option? Is the answer that *more* people would have been out of work? It really appears that all that money did nothing.
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POPSObama vs. America Now we have a government that wants to baby-sit us and make all of our decisions for us. I guess some people need that--mainly the people who voted to put these charlatans in office. It’s high time that those people learned to stand on their own two feet and take care of themselves. We cannot afford, nor do we want, to be their babysitters any longer. The whole purpose of the Constitution is to define the federal government and to establish a separation of powers between federal authority and the states. That is why the enumerated powers specified in Article 1, Section 8 were then reinforced with the 9th and 10th Amendments, to make the federal limitations perfectly clear to anyone reading the document.
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POPSNew car: 230mpg - 100km/l (!) Wow! It's amazing to think such 10,000% increase in car efficiency is even possible. Hopefully, even better, this is just one example, a harbinger of things to come. If we put our collective minds, wills and spirit into it, humanity is capable of unthinkable great achievements and this is the best direction for us to travel. Unfortunately (to say the least), we kept getting fed war drums and saber rattling propaganda and led into false wars for false reasons. We don't need to travel down these hatefilled roads any longer. There are new ways, new possibilities.
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POPSNorth Carolina Auto Loans Credit check is always a concern for people with less than perfect credit while opting for auto loan. Yet, there are financing options accessible whereby you can expect to get low rate car finance without credit check.
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POPSDoes Bailout Come with a Company Car? As a major shareholder in the newly formed Government Motors I demand to know when I can pick up my company car. Could someone tell me which of the dealerships still in business are taking requests for company cars? Now that I am the majority stock holder in the company I would like to have as one of my perks a nice new company car and not one of them HYBRIDS either. I want one of those big old gas guzzlers that the President drives. If Ms Pelosi can fly around in a company jet, and the President can drive around in his fleet of SUV's then AS A MAJOR SHAREHOLDER IN GOVERNMENT motors SO CAN I. Please make delivery of my new company car to the address you have on file in my Share HOLDERS portfolio. THANK YOU.
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POPSChevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil In 1998, I traveled to the Niger Delta with journalist Jeremy Scahill. A Chevron executive there told us that Chevron flew troops from Nigeria’s notorious mobile police, the “kill ‘n’ go,” in a Chevron company helicopter to an oil barge that had been occupied by nonviolent protesters.
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POPS Dear Barack: Does Your Chrysler 300C Get 35.5 MPG? ...The Obama administration claims the new measures will save 1.8 billion barrels of oil over seven years. But that claim assumes new-car buying habits continue unabated and that people will want to buy expensive, tiny cars. If people instead elect to purchase bigger, cheaper used vehicles, there will be no reduction in consumption; those used vehicles are the same "guzzlers" we're driving today. The fuel economy gains we might have seen with reasonable mileage targets for new vehicles won't be realized if fewer new vehicles are sold. Worse, the auto industry will continue to shrink because of the decrease in new-vehicle sales.
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POPSGM Chief Backs Gas Tax Hike Strictly for personal reasons. It doesn’t concern him that many independent over-the-road truckers gave up their livelihood because they could not afford to continue driving due to high gas prices. It does not concern him that many volunteer services who drive the elderly to doctors appointments and/or bring food to homebound invalids were going under because they couldn’t afford the gas. No, he is only concerned about himself.
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POPSNObama's Automobile Team Scorns American Cars I'm sure a lot has to do with the snob factor. Elected democrats feel they are better than us and don't follow the standards they dictate to us. Me - I love my Dodge Ram quarter ton diesel 4X4 pickup truck I have converted to burn cooking oil instead of diesel. I only stop at gas stations to pee or buy coffee.
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POPSStandard Carbon Footprint Analysis Featured On CNN
Standard Carbon footprint analysis featured on CNN Thursday, November 6th, 2008 On Election Day, CNN Headline News interviewed Standard Carbon’s Brendan Woodward to discuss the carbon footprint of the presidential election. In the full interview, political hypocrisy was discussed as both candidates have proposed cap and trade regulations, but not chosen to follow them on a voluntary basis. The climate change impact of the two candidates was large-requiring the equivalent carbon offsets of more than 18 square miles of new forest to grow for 10 years. For Barack Obama, this would have required about $700,000 to purchase enough carbon offsets, or a mere 1% of his 3/4 of a billion dollar campaign budget. Air travel, commuting, office space, paper, direct mail, meetings and event, fundraisers, and get out the vote activities http://standardcarbon.com/resources/?p=76 "Gaia" Re Gaia http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/345AA76F-4352-4015-9846-1D3D3E6302FF/
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POPS'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years Abolishing the income tax. Now that really would be a genuine economic stimulus. Politicians invariably respond to crises -- that in most cases they themselves created -- by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs . . . and the downward spiral repeats itself until the productive sectors of the economy collapse under the collective weight of taxes and other burdens imposed in the name of fairness, equality and do-goodism. These acts and edicts sound farcical, yes, but no more so than the actual events in Washington, circa 2008. We already have been served up the $700 billion "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act" and the "Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act." Now that Barack Obama is in town, he will soon sign into law with great urgency the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan."
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POPSAmbassador to the Anti-Semites Granting legitimacy to Jew haters is certainly one way to bring peace to the Middle East. It will hasten the day when the the cartographers of the world will realize full employment as the words of Iran’s President Ahmadinejad are finally made flesh and Israel is “wiped off the map.” The only question is what are the map makers going to put in that small little white space where the word “Israel” used to be?
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POPS UAW Runs Whining To President-To-Be Barack Obama The UAW is playing the role of Vinnie Barbarino from that horrible 70s sitcom Welcome Back Kotter. When people mention fraud, graft, and corruption, the UAW is saying “what, who, where?” and pretending it doesn’t see any. Then, when the matter is pressed, the UAW looks to blame everyone but itself. This is why there should never be a bailout for the auto makers. Nothing. Not a penny. The unions need to be heavily pressured or there will never be any way for the auto industry to make a competitive come back. Warner Todd Huston Publius Contributor
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POPSUS Government to Bail Out Christmas Inside Treasury, some officials privately worry that such a precedent could result in the nationalization of Santa Claus, leading to similar calls for help next year from the Easter Bunny and even Valentine's Day. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson personally concluded, however, that "Santa Claus is too big to fail."
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POPSHow to read an American newspaper US good. Foreigner bad. A contrast between two rather similar economic stories, cast in very different hues. And by the way, this is why not to believe people who say the press is "librul" and hates America.
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POPSPaul Krugman: US Auto Industry May Disappear . . . . . . . . . . . . . and that the bailout is merely a short term fix. . . . . . We could make labor laws a lot less draconian, for one thing. The auto industry, and American manufacturing in general, has for too long been burdened by ridiculous labor contracts that unnecessarily inflate the price of labor and require things such as nearly full pay for workers who aren’t actually, you know, working. We could also lower taxes. America, collectively, has the second highest corporate tax rate in the world. Lowering that tax burden would go a long way toward encouraging companies to stay in America, and encouraging new companies to move in. Unfortunately, Democrats are far too fond of big tax revenues from big taxes and they are too beholden to Big Labor to every enact policies that make as much sense as those do.
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