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Posted on August 25th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.
What is wrong with Barack Obama? I think the man is a menace, a reckless amateur of the worst sort. A delegator (or just plain lazy), he surrounds himself with hacks that have done little more than diminish his position with the people of this country. Barack Obama himself may be able to fool some of the people, some of the time… but his cronies? People like Sebelius, Axelrod and Gibbs are hardly the kind of people you want front and center on anything of any importance. Sebelius was Governor of a nothing state (sorry Kansas), Axelrod is a behind the scenes operator and player, Gibbs is a doughie mess, easily riled and often left stammering awkwardly. Why would these be the faces that I saw trying to articulate healthcare for the executive branch? Did they want to fail?
Anybody with a lick of sense should have known that Obama needed to be front and center. He needed to be “lawyered up” on the plan, well versed in what he was talking about in order that he maintain his “coolness” factor. There was no room for a “mom jeans” moment, surely not when the Congress was going to be represented by dim witted zealots like Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Schumer et al. With Ted Kennedy sidelined the Democratic short list that would be pushing this plan could have been riding a short bus to the capitol. Obama needed to be the reassuring presence, the guy that let America believe, “Fear not, these idiots aren’t really in charge, I am.” We didn’t get that for weeks… but worse, when Obama decided it was time that he do some of the heavy lifting, he was ill informed and ill prepared. He declared with conviction that private insurance would survive the public option because Fed Ex and UPS were doing just fine against a failing US Postal Service. Wow, how reassuring. I’m opposed to the liberal/socialist agenda of this President, but I doubt I could have gummed up the works this well if I were Obama’s Chief of Staff. It is simply amazing to me to watch the implosion of this administration.
So when the healthcare debate goes south, what does this president do? He, revisits CIA interrogations of terrorists and murderers! I cannot help but think that Obama has completely lost every bit of “mojo” he once had. What a winner this thing is going to be for the Obama Administration. Our CIA interrogators made threats and used force to intimidate murderers! Who in their right mind is going to get worked up about the supposed torture of three ANIMALS?! I cannot wait until the media is forced to read the resumes of these disgusting subhuman thugs.
Keep it up, President Obama! I love you for this. You give conservatives one gift after another. You are completely out of touch with the American people. You would have us believe that this is Holder and not you, but this is you. This revisiting of the CIA interrogations is desperate and it will end in a further diminishing of President Obama’s approval and standing with the American people. Bravo! Anybody have some popcorn?
Posted on August 25th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Get active!, News.
Here is an open letter to Walmart. Feel free to post this all over the place… much appreciated. Free speech matters in America, whether right or wrong. If Beck is so off base, let the viewers, the individuals out there, exercise their right to turn him off.
To Whom It May Concern,
I have been a consistent shopper in your stores for years now. I cannot think of a time where I was not it one of your stores at least once a week. I cringe considering the amounts of money that I have sunk into purchases made in your stores. The first place I think to go when I need something is the local Walmart… sadly, your actions as of late have forced me to reconsider. Your stance on healthcare given this political and economic climate was perplexing but you had a right to consider your best interests and to speak your mind on the matter. I’m sure there is a financial offset that is beneficial to your corporation in laying costs such as insurance on the backs of the taxpayers while at the same time diminishing your own responsibility to your employees. I am a capitalist, a conservative and a realist. I do not begrudge you the right to maximize your profits; in fact I expect you to do just that, it’s good business. So while I oppose the healthcare reforms being proposed, I respected Walmart’s right to disagree and to pursue what was best for them. It was not a stance that would make me consider shopping elsewhere.
This week however, you have elected to back a boycott of the Glenn Beck Program. I cannot express to you just how irksome it is to have supported a corporation’s right to free speech, while that corporation, has decided to aid in the squashing of an individual’s speech rights. This boycott is not about right and wrong, it is about destroying an opposition viewpoint. You are a party to an action I find vile, and that I abhor. How dare you join an effort to shut somebody up. I think I am going to have to reconsider whether or not corporations should have the same kind of free speech rights as individuals. I think perhaps it is reckless to give rights granted the individual to nebulous entities who cannot be held singularly accountable for what they say and the positions that they take. Perhaps we should all be considering whether or not corporations should be allowed an opinion in public debate at all. Your choice to pull ads was cowardly. Avoidance of controversy is one thing, bailing out on a program you didn’t find offensive until threatened, is another. Beck has a right to consider the president a racist if he believes it… and further he has a right to say it. People are free to stand up and say, “You’re wrong,” but that’s where it should end. There should not be a concerted effort to destroy a man because he has an opinion. That you have joined in this action is galling to me.
So, I want you to know that you have lost a loyal customer. My family of four will shop elsewhere and I will likewise tell my extended family and friends to also boycott your stores. The Sam’s Club membership will not be renewed. We’ll purchase clothing at Kohl’s, incidentals at Target or K-mart, and return to the local grocery store. Sure, in the short term it will cost us a few bucks to make this change, but in the long term the costs associated with stances like the one made by your spineless corporation, are all the greater. We as a nation cannot afford to have our free speech rights threatened in any way. I urge you to reconsider your position, but if you will not, so be it. Let my voice be the first to say, enough… and hopefully others will follow suit. I will be posting this to my blog and will encourage others to do the same. You may find the loss of one customer laughable, but we’ll see how funny it is when others join in.
Respectfully,
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News, Politics.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs went out before the press and tried to clarify what it was that the president meant when he stated that the police had acted stupidly in arresting Professor Henry Gates. Too bad he dug the hole deeper in my mind. Robert Gibbs told reporters that Obama felt that when it was clear that Harvard scholar Louis Gates Jr. was not a burglary suspect last week, “at that point, cooler heads on all sides should have prevailed.”
Cooler heads should have prevailed? What does that mean? The officer(s) are hotheaded? Could Professor Gates have acted better, or does he get a pass? After all, he is the guy that was (according to all witnesses) yelling “racist” about the arresting/responding officer.
Obama had said that the Cambridge, Mass., police “acted stupidly” by citing Gates on a resisting arrest charge, which was quickly dropped. He had not faulted the actions of Gates, who he said is a friend. Of course he didn’t find fault in the actions of his friend. Obama is a disciple of Jeremiah Wright and the police are ALL corrupt racists according to that maniac’s teachings.
“Let me be clear, he was not calling the officer stupid,” Gibbs told reporters as Obama landed in Cleveland for two health care events Thursday. He said Obama felt that “at a certain point the situation got far out of hand” at Gates’ home last week. Wow, really Robert? The situation got out of hand? When did it get out of hand? Was it when the neighbor called the cops? Was it when the officer responded? Was it when the officer dared to ask a black man for ID in his own home? When exactly did the whole thing fall apart? Who was it that became immediately riled according to witnesses?
I am very angry that this president would comment on an incident without having a firm grasp on the facts. Worse though, this president would continue to try to scramble and to make excuses for his poor form. I don’t care what generalities this president and his lackeys deem as relevant. The president was asked about a SPECIFIC incident and instead of seeking to educate himself on the matter he decides to shoot from the hip. Well then Mr. Obama, live with the consequences of speaking from a place of admitted STUPIDITY and casting an entire department in a poor light without even KNOWING THE FACTS. What an arrogant, selfrighteous fool this president has turned out to be. Bush was an idiot? Yeah. Obama is a genius? Not even close.
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Just Dumb, News.
Barack Obama has screwed himself rotten. This week he has admitted that he isn’t fully versed on his healthcare adventure. Asked, “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.” Really? You aren’t familiar with a plan that you are trying to shove down the throats of the American people? Reckless, much?
I suppose last night’s hijacking of the airwaves was supposed to be a means by which Barack Obama could make his case for healthcare and perhaps convince us all that he knows what he’s talking about. There was much babbling, much finger pointing and then Barack Obama was asked about the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Gates. That’s when the president again elected to speak about that which he knows little about. “My understanding is that Professor Gates then shows his I.D. to show that this is his house and, at that point, he gets arrested for disorderly conduct, charges which are later dropped,” Obama said. Really? President Obama, that isn’t how the police say it all went down. They dispute the extent of Gates’ cooperation, saying he didn’t initially provide identification when asked and berated the police.
Not one to be succinct the president then went about his pontificating as he always does, in that kind of exploratory babble that he uses to gauge reaction and to adjust his argument. “I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact.”
This is the problem with this country. Everything is racist. Everything is measured against the past. Nothing is an individual case. Gates might have been acting like a fool, but hey, black folks have been treated badly in the past… so let’s give him a pass. Nevermind that President Obama has a personal bias. Even exposing that and admitting it, doesn’t diminish it. So instead of saying, “I don’t know all of the facts,” this guy uses words like “stupidly”. Brilliant.
I want to thank the president. As an opponent of this half baked idea that Democrats have where it concerns healthcare he did us all a HUGE favor. All of his babbling has been boiled down to so much NOTHING as the media focuses in on Mr. Obama’s racial comments. Bravo! This healthcare plan would do more harm than good. So for this president to minimalize his own efforts by clouding them over in a controversial commentary on race is A-OK by me! Again, thank you President Obama, your skewed view of reality, admittedly based in no knowledge of the facts, has done you in… and I am grateful.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News, Politics.
Finally, somebody is saying what realists have been thinking. Barack Obama is so consumed with his agenda that he is spending us into oblivion. Kevin Hassett at Bloomberg.com makes comparisons between California and the federal budget that makes things perfectly clear.
The California morass has Democrats in Washington trembling. The reason is simple. If Obama’s health-care plan passes, then we may well end up paying for it with federal slips of paper worth less than California’s. Obama has bet everything on passing health care this year. The publicity surrounding the California debt fiasco almost assures his resounding defeat.
I know that people keep saying that Democrats will be running for the hills when it comes to this health care initiative of Obama’s but I would still like for those concerned to get more vocal about it. I am not convinced yet that this is DOA.
California has engaged in an orgy of spending, but, compared with our federal government, its legislators should feel chaste. The California deficit this year is now north of $26 billion. The U.S. federal defecit will be, according to the latest numbers, almost 70 times larger.
Bleak Picture
The federal picture is so bleak because the Obama administration is the most fiscally irresponsible in the history of the U.S. I would imagine that he would be the intergalactic champion as well, if we could gather the data on deficits on other worlds. Obama has taken George W. Bush’s inattention to defecits and elevated it to an art form.
HALLELUJAH! PREACH IT BROTHER!
With the price tag of Obama-care likely to exceed $1 trillion, moderate Democrats face a simple choice. They can jump off the cliff with the president, or they can stay true to the principles that they have espoused throughout their careers.
There are reassuring signs that principle is winning. One of the most expensive components of the Obama plan is the so- called public-insurance option, which opponents fear would result in massive government subsidies. Senator Mary Landrieu said that she is “not open” to a public option that will compete with private insurance.
One trillion? If that’s the Democrats’ estimate, I would venture that the real cost will be more than twice that. Nobody with any grasp on the situation that this country is staring down could support this health care initiative. Health care needs to be regulated. Insurance companies need to deliver what they promise and they need to do it in concert with a medical community that is accountable for corruption… just as insurers need to be held accountable for theirs. Hassett is optimistic that the stupidity that is Obama’s health care folly will be struck down. I am hopeful, but it seems to me that Hassett puts a lot of faith in the American people having a clue. I don’t know that people hear anything beyond FREE and Obama and the rest of the Democrats have made a good run at getting people to believe that they’re offering them something for nothing.
Posted on July 5th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Politics.
What is it with Maureen Dowd? What makes this woman so bitter and angry? Her piece on Sarah Palin’s resignation can only be described as hateful. The venom and the disdain must have dripped from her forked tongue and drenched her keyboard in an ooze of bile that burned the lettering from the keys. I’m not a big Palin fan. I’ve thought for some time that she’s pretty much done herself in where it concerns her aspirations for higher office, which just makes Dowd’s assault all the more distressing. If Palin is truly done, I have to wonder; why the need to be so brutal?
Maybe the red haired harlot of liberal editorial is still smarting from having her broom shoved squarely up her derrière after being declared a plagiarist? Is that perhaps what has Dowd so rabid? Is she adopting the tone of the blogosphere instead of simply ripping off its content? Surely the vapid rantings of this woman (exquisite use of vocabulary set aside) are more suited to the likes of the Democratic Underground than they are the pages of The New York Times. After all, the New York Times is supposedly the chronicle for the civilized world. Sadly, Dowd’s hit piece showed little in the way of civility.
What is clear is that Palin has likely had enough. Dowd and other liberals want to speculate as to why. Could it be a scandal? With no apparent proof of that, they’ve had to go the “crazy” route. After all, you’d have to be nuts to have had enough of the media and their incessant attacks on your family. Who wouldn’t love to have the media painting them as an imbecilic inbred from a backwoods state? Wouldn’t we all love to see the media and late night talkers savaging our kids? Which is likely what Maureen Dowd’s ire boils down to. HOW DARE SARAH PALIN SAY, ENOUGH, TO THIS MEDIA. HOW DARE SARAH PALIN TAKE CONTROL OF HER OWN DESTINY. HOW DARE SARAH PALIN END THIS MEDIA WITCH HUNT ON HER TERMS. When it’s all said and done, that explains the nastiness of Dowd’s attack. She is absolutely galled by the fact that Sarah Palin has had the nerve to simply walk away.
The press made you Sarah! You can’t just walk away! Dowd’s piece speaks for the whole of the leftist media. Dowd just beat the mass to the mark given this long weekend… but fear not, MSNBC’s lineup of hack talkers will be following up this savagery with their own vitriolic rantings. Sarah Palin has dared to defy the media. She has dared to set the terms. Will she be granted any peace? I doubt it, but the media will have a much harder time painting their attacks as relevant. Dowd as the media’s proxy is just the first of the mainstream to fathom the facts and to understand that their lives are all less relevant without the right’s poster girl to kick around.
So, what next? I would suggest that Maureen Dowd and the rest of the liberals in the media take a hard look at the state of the nation, rather than the state of the Republican Party. They got what they wanted. Those that proclaim themselves in line with their “evolved” thinking are running this country and our demise seems to have been hastened rather than stopped. Mayhaps Maureen Dowd and her ilk would be better served questioning the policies of those truly in power, rather than those that are not. Sarah Palin is a losing Vice Presidential Candidate and still she sends the leftist media into fits. Meanwhile, the neophyte that actually won the presidency is given a pass where it concerns the economy, our world standing and the nation’s general welfare. Sarah Palin is nuts? Hardly. It’s the whole of the Fourth Estate that is stark raving mad. Maureen Dowd isn’t fit to pontificate on “Brangelina” or even the elusive tabloid staple “Bat Boy”, much less politics. Ms. Dowd, honestly, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Posted on June 5th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials.
I have seen this look before, from my grandmother aka Oma. This is the look you get before she says through her thick accent, “bullsh*tters”.
It is apparent that Angela Merkel is unimpressed with the populist rhetoric of Mr. Obama. Maybe Germans have just had their belly full of populist leaders promising the world and delivering nothing of the sort. Of course at least their populist leaders of old managed to elevate themselves by building up their nation. In the case of Mr. Obama it seems that he is most comfortable laying on the guilt with all of us, and straight up throwing us under the bus with the rest of the world. Admitting that the US engaged in a coup in Iran in 1953 was a gesture of good will on Mr. “Naive” Obama’s part… but will now and forever be a mallet with which to strike at us for Mr. Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah du jour.
Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.
According to Barack Obama, America is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. First of all, I didn’t know that America was a Muslim country. I didn’t know that a minority in the range of 1.8 million to 6 million persons made us “Muslim”. Maybe Mr. Obama is a Constitutional Scholar, but he’s obviously no mathematician.
Worse, the president who shunned his Mulsim ties, is now embracing them and putting them front and center before the “Muslim” world. It’s insulting not only to American voters, or Christians… it’s also insulting to Muslims. The net sum game for Obama after this latest populist stunt is that both Christians and Muslims (with a brain in their head) will see that this guy is simply an opportunist. I don’t think he is serious about religion at all. He is a religion unto himself. There is no room for Islam or Christian belief systems within the cult that is… OBAMA.
Barack Obama has no integrity whatsoever. He will say anything in order to convince a given audience that he’s with them. In the end what becomes apparent is that he is with NOBODY. Barack Obama stands for nothing, except his own, disgusting ambitions.
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.
Barack Obama is probably a decent fellow. So it makes it unfortunate that I have to say, time and again, that he is weak, ignorant, naive and gullible. One can only surmise that the man is patently clueless when it comes to human nature. While Iran has stated that it wants to pursue nuclear power, it has similarly said that it is entitled to the bomb. North Korea and every other state that has eventually obtained nukes has started with the cliched, “it’s for power”… what we never seem to get is what kind of power they’re talking about. In the case of North Korea, that power wasn’t of the electrical type… it was of the extortion type. The case is for certain similar where it concerns Iran.
LONDON — President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful.
In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, he also restated plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran to encourage it set aside any ambitions for nuclear weapons it might harbor.
Oh, I feel better… he’s going to “encourage” Ahmadinejad to set aside ambitions for nukes. Ahmadinejad has shown a real propensity for reason and compassion in the past, hasn’t he?
Iran has insisted its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity. But the U.S. and other Western governments accuse Tehran of seeking atomic weapons.
“What I do believe is that Iran has legitimate energy concerns, legitimate aspirations,” Obama said, adding that the international community also “has a very real interest” in preventing a nuclear arms race.
The president has indicated a willingness to seek deeper international sanctions against Tehran if it does not respond positively to U.S. attempts to open negotiations on its nuclear program. Obama has said Tehran has until the end of the year to show it wants to engage with Washington.
“Although I don’t want to put artificial time tables on that process, we do want to make sure that, by the end of this year, we’ve actually seen a serious process move forward. And I think that we can measure whether or not the Iranians are serious,” Obama said.
Sanctions? Oh yeah, now there’s a real threat. He doesn’t want to put artificial time tables on the process? Hello, Mr. Obama, there is a very real time table at play here, sir. When they have the bomb and an ability to deliver it, your options become few… but then I think you know that, and that’s what frightens me. Barack Obama seems to be saying to Iran, “Hurry up!” It makes his ability to throw up his hands and say, “Awwww well,” that much easier when Iran has the bomb.
“What we want to do is open a dialogue,” Obama told the BBC. “You know, there are misapprehensions about the West, on the part of the Muslim world. And, obviously, there are some big misapprehensions about the Muslim world when it comes to those of us in the West.”
Oh, here we go again. While the Muslim world has misapprehensions about the West, we in the West have “big” misapprehensions about the Muslim world. See, we’re just misguided racists over here. Guys like Ahmadinejad are human beings too and well, human beings are all wonderful at heart. Just ignore Ahmadinejad’s calls for the destruction of Israel and denials of the Holocaust. He’s simply misunderstood.
Barack Obama has shown an ability to recklessly abandon reality and reason when it comes to his world perspective. It seems America can do nothing right, sees nothing for what it is, and owes the whole of the world an apology. At the same time, hateful, miserable, petty despots of the world are held up as “legitimate”.
Congratulations America, we elected ourselves a guy that wants to put this country second, third or fourth behind the likes of Iran, North Korea and Venezuela. In this crazy pseudo reality, our ally Israel is the nation deemed illegitimate. Madness. Obama’s commitment seems to be rooted in reining in Israel while allowing Iran to run amok.
Obama sounded an optimistic note about making progress toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, although he offered no new ideas for how he might try to secure a freeze on new building of Israeli settlements. The United States has called for a freeze, but Israeli leaders have rejected that.
Uhmmm Barry, Israel isn’t stopping. Israel is running war drills at this very moment. Mr. President, I implore you to please, get a clue.
Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.
You could be moved to tears reading Michael Moore’s account of GM’s demise and the ruination of his home town of Flynt. Woe are the autoworkers and the families of Michigan. Who could have seen this coming? Nevermind that twenty years ago Michael Moore created “Roger and Me” a “documentary” about the demise of none other than Flynt Michigan. Did Mike think that there was going to be some kind of a robust BOOM in Flynt? Did he not garner from his own film that Flynt was a town in ruins? Apparently not.
As I sit here in GM’s birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I am surrounded by friends and family who are filled with anxiety about what will happen to them and to the town. Forty percent of the homes and businesses in the city have been abandoned. Imagine what it would be like if you lived in a city where almost every other house is empty. What would be your state of mind?
I don’t know Mike. Maybe after 20 years of watching my town be flat busted, I’d have moved myself and my family out of there and followed the 40% of the people that were REALISTS. Oh but hey, what am I saying? The people themselves have nothing to do with their lives, the blame rests solely with the heartless corporations… namely, GM.
So here we are at the deathbed of General Motors. The company’s body not yet cold, and I find myself filled with — dare I say it — joy. It is not the joy of revenge against a corporation that ruined my hometown and brought misery, divorce, alcoholism, homelessness, physical and mental debilitation, and drug addiction to the people I grew up with. Nor do I, obviously, claim any joy in knowing that 21,000 more GM workers will be told that they, too, are without a job.
But you and I and the rest of America now own a car company! I know, I know — who on earth wants to run a car company? Who among us wants $50 billion of our tax dollars thrown down the rat hole of still trying to save GM? Let’s be clear about this: The only way to save GM is to kill GM.
Yes, kill GM. Make it something tangible. Drive that stake into the heart of the beast! Make it into a scapegoat for all of the “misery, divorce, alcoholism, homelessness, physical and mental debilitation, and drug addiction” that has befallen people that worked for the auto giant. Nevermind that GM has sustained generations. Nothing good ever came out of GM. It just used people up, right Mike? Nevermind that GM buried itself in legacy costs that rendered it uncompetetive. I know, with proper management things would have been different. Of course that’s easy to say, seeing as we never got to witness the alternative… that is until now. Now we’ll see what liberal politicians know about running a couple of auto companies. I’m sure Ford, Toyota, Honda and Nissan are quaking in their boots. Since Obama hasn’t yet levitated, perhaps he can make a car that does?
In the end, Moore ends up stating that he saw this all coming 20 years ago… I wish he’d make up his mind. First it’s all GM’s fault that the people of Flynt are a tattered remnants of drug addled, booze addicted, wife beaters… and now he says in essence, I told you so?! So people that have been living in Flynt for the last 20 years are still VICTIMS? When do people have to take responsibility for themselves in Mr. Moore’s world? Is ten years enough? No. Fifteen? Nah. Twenty? Doesn’t seem so. In Moore’s world, there are only hapless dupes, evil corporations and juggernaut bureacracies.
Unfortunately, it’s more government that Mr. Moore seems to want. Nevermind that they’ve proved to be as inept as any corporation. He runs through a littany of “suggestions” that he feels should be considered given that he foresaw all of this… uh huh. Most of Mr. Moore’s suggestions seem to revolve around mass transit. Gee, just what free wheeling Americans want… to be bogged down on buses and trains. Yes, I’m sure that the people will be flocking to these transit options. Nevermind that in South Florida, Tri-Rail is nearly bankrupt. Ah, but Mike has this covered. See you get people out of their cars by TAXING THE HECK OUT OF GAS! Gee, there’s another novel idea… eh? Who else has spewed the old “tax it” line when it comes to gas? Gore, Kerry, the list of liberals intent on making the freedom of personal transport extinct in this country goes on, and on, and on. We should all be living in cities. We should all be crowded together like cattle. Leave the suburbs and the countryside to the animals, or the wealthy… like Mr. Moore. That’s what so irksome about what he suggests. This is the kind of socialistic rambling that you expect from garden variety liberals these days. We’re too dumb or too reckless to be FREE.
You can read Mr. Moore’s “letter” on his website. While he makes good points about outsourcing and the inferior products that GM has been manufacturing it all gets buried beneath his folksy blame game. It’s a shame that he can’t see that the relationship between GM and its workforce was unhealthy from both sides. Maybe his “documentaries” would be more readily accepted as factual if he took into consideration both sides of the topics he explores. Just a suggestion.