NYT - Tommy Thompson's Black GM Welfare Queens

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Subject: [SpinLyme] NYT - Tommy Thompson's Black GM Welfare Queens

Date: Nov 13, 2008 10:22 AM

Uuum, as I recall Tommy Thompson is from the "black welfare queen"
Michigan Wing of the Hatred Wing-Nuts Party which was why
he got his appointment as head of the DHHS:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CUSTOMS.htm

Now his own Michigan "black welfare queens" hating gang are
themselves, begging for a handout.

I propose we all do a little Bushianna gut-thinking:
"But as useful as hypocrisy can be, it’s apparently not quite as basic
as the
human instinct to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Your mind can
justify double standards, it seems, but in your heart you know you’re
wrong."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01tier.html

You see, Bushie-Repug Hate-Gut-thinking is really Evil from the heart.

Application?
Let em go down. The market analysts called the shots instead of
the scientists and engineers, which is the same thing that happened
to BigPharma - which resulted in no new antibiotics in an era of
new and resistant infections (it had to be about vaccines and test
kits, and do-overs of drugs already on the market like psych-drugs
and anti-inflammatories and poor-thing limp-winky treatments...).
Money-people, like psychiatrists and psychologists and lawyers (Oh
My!),
have no brains. They, too, are gut-thinkers. 'People who
rationalize
doing what they know is wrong.

Maybe we should propose a new kind of Affirmative Action. Let's
let lawyers and psychiatrists have a shot at running NASA, the
Pentagon, and even HAARP in Alaska. (Psychiatrists don't even think
HAARP is a real thing. That's how *stupid* they are. They're so
brainwashed, they don't even know there's a real world out there
that can be tested by real science. They're not even curious.)


You have to ask yourselves why Tommy Thompson - who HATES black
people (and he hates Jews, too) - would have been placed at the
head of DHHS...


KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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November 12, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
How to Fix a Flat
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Last September, I was in a hotel room watching CNBC early one morning.
They were
interviewing Bob Nardelli, the C.E.O. of Chrysler, and he was
explaining why the
auto industry, at that time, needed $25 billion in loan guarantees. It
wasn’t a
bailout, he said. It was a way to enable the car companies to retool
for innovation.
I could not help but shout back at the TV screen: “We have to
subsidize Detroit
so that it will innovate? What business were you people in other than
innovation?”
If we give you another $25 billion, will you also do accounting?

How could these companies be so bad for so long? Clearly the
combination of a very
un-innovative business culture, visionless management and overly
generous labor
contracts explains a lot of it. It led to a situation whereby General
Motors could
make money only by selling big, gas-guzzling S.U.V.’s and trucks.
Therefore, instead
of focusing on making money by innovating around fuel efficiency,
productivity and
design, G.M. threw way too much energy into lobbying and maneuvering
to protect
its gas guzzlers.

This included striking special deals with Congress that allowed the
Detroit automakers
to count the mileage of gas guzzlers as being more than they really
were — provided
they made some cars flex-fuel capable for ethanol. It included special
offers of
$1.99-a-gallon gasoline for a year to any customer who purchased a gas
guzzler.
And it included endless lobbying to block Congress from raising the
miles-per-gallon
requirements. The result was an industry that became brain dead.

Nothing typified this more than statements like those of Bob Lutz,
G.M.’s vice chairman.
He has been quoted as saying that hybrids like the Toyota Prius “make
no economic
sense.” And, in February, D Magazine of Dallas quoted him as saying
that global
warming “is a total crock of [expletive].”

These are the guys taxpayers are being asked to bail out.

And please, spare me the alligator tears about G.M.’s health care
costs. Sure, they
are outrageous. “But then why did G.M. refuse to lift a finger to
support a national
health care program when Hillary Clinton was pushing for it?” asks Dan
Becker, a
top environmental lobbyist.

Not every automaker is at death’s door. Look at this article that ran
two weeks
ago on autochannel.com: “ALLISTON, Ontario, Canada — Honda of Canada
Mfg. officially
opened its newest investment in Canada — a state-of-the art $154
million engine
plant. The new facility will produce 200,000 fuel-efficient four-
cylinder engines
annually for Civic production in response to growing North American
demand for vehicles
that provide excellent fuel economy.”

The blame for this travesty not only belongs to the auto executives,
but must be
shared equally with the entire Michigan delegation in the House and
Senate, virtually
all of whom, year after year, voted however the Detroit automakers and
unions instructed
them to vote. That shielded General Motors, Ford and Chrysler from
environmental
concerns, mileage concerns and the full impact of global competition
that could
have forced Detroit to adapt long ago.

Indeed, if and when they do have to bury Detroit, I hope that all the
current and
past representatives and senators from Michigan have to serve as
pallbearers. And
no one has earned the “honor” of chief pallbearer more than the
Michigan Representative
John Dingell, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee
who is more
responsible for protecting Detroit to death than any single
legislator.

O.K., now that I have all that off my chest, what do we do? I am as
terrified as
anyone of the domino effect on industry and workers if G.M. were to
collapse. But
if we are going to use taxpayer money to rescue Detroit, then it
should be done
along the lines proposed in The Wall Street Journal on Monday by Paul
Ingrassia,
a former Detroit bureau chief for that paper.

“In return for any direct government aid,” he wrote, “the board and
the management
[of G.M.] should go. Shareholders should lose their paltry remaining
equity. And
a government-appointed receiver — someone hard-nosed and nonpolitical
— should have
broad power to revamp G.M. with a viable business plan and return it
to a private
operation as soon as possible. That will mean tearing up existing
contracts with
unions, dealers and suppliers, closing some operations and selling
others and downsizing
the company ... Giving G.M. a blank check — which the company and the
United Auto
Workers union badly want, and which Washington will be tempted to
grant — would
be an enormous mistake.”

I would add other conditions: Any car company that gets taxpayer money
must demonstrate
a plan for transforming every vehicle in its fleet to a hybrid-
electric engine with
flex-fuel capability, so its entire fleet can also run on next
generation cellulosic
ethanol.

Lastly, somebody ought to call Steve Jobs, who doesn’t need to be
bribed to do innovation,
and ask him if he’d like to do national service and run a car company
for a year.
I’d bet it wouldn’t take him much longer than that to come up with the
G.M. iCar.

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