I am amazed by the crickets chirping on the left side of the fence. It was only months ago when we heard the supposed liberal/Democrat protectors of civil rights lambaste the Bush administration for a litany of charges. Bush violating civil liberties? How interesting. Dick Cheney shredding the Constitution? Wow.
Now let’s turn to Earth, where the current administration is, by its own admission, tossing aside the Constitution. In fact, this week President Golden Calf has stuffed the Constitution down the toilet and flushed it, while like a mob boss he goes from business to business for the purpose of taking them over.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t find in my copy of the Constitution where it says the President of the United States is authorized to take over any company he wishes like some kind of mob boss. Yet, that’s what he’s doing.
And yet liberals/Democrats are now curiously silent.
It’s not even relevant that the man has never run a business. “Community organizing,” i.e., rabble rousing, is enough. So he takes over Chrysler, and Chrysler fails. So much for all those billions he and Congress siphoned from the “people.” I thought he Next to go kaput is GM. With the U.S. government now owning a significant part of that company, and the UAW just being given another significant part, General Motors is basically an arm of the Democrat Party.
El Rushbo summed it quite nicely on Tuesday:
World War II, ladies and gentlemen, ended with a surrender on the USS Missouri. Capitalism may have surrendered in the General Motors boardroom. You go over to Chrysler, it’s even worse. There, Don Obama’s capo di tuttis, the consiglieri, whatever, the soldiers? They get 55% of Chrysler, Don Obama gets 35%, and the private sector gets 10% of Chrysler. I had somebody send me a note last night: “I’m never buying an American car again.” Now, let’s take a look at some real facets of this. Let’s start with General Motors. Don Obama has 50% of the company. His soldiers, the UAW, have 39% ...
I predicted this back in December. I knew this was gonna happen. This was the game plan all along. It’s not Obama’s answer to every problem; it’s his objective: Nationalize every business. It’s not his solution. It’s his objective. You know, people are getting caught up, “Well, his answer to this problem is he’s gotta do this and gotta do that.” No! This was his objective from the get-go. So let’s say when the deal here is done, let’s talk about Chrysler, 55% of Don Obama’s boys own the thing. When you go in to a Chrysler dealership, do you realize you’re going to be walking into satellite office of the Democrat National Committee? These dealerships will close on Election Day. You won’t be able to buy a car on Election Day. You’ll probably be able to register to vote when you buy a car. Voter registration will be on -- and union membership will be automatic, even if you don’t work at a union place, you’ll be an honorary union member when you go buy a car.
Every car will produced with Obama bumper stickers built in. You can’t rip ‘em off. Dealerships will check applications to make sure the applicants who want loans to buy cars are Democrats. If your car breaks down and you complain about the repair bill, you will get audited -- and you might want to keep a sharp eye on your kneecaps. And then try this. This is going to be interesting for me to watch at Chrysler and General Motors. Chrysler has 55% of the UAW owning the company. That means they’re going to have a majority of seats on the board of directors. At General Motors, it’s 39%, so they’ll have not a majority but they’re going to have a lot of people on the boards of directors. So it’s going to be union people deciding how much union people earn. It’s going to be union management telling union employees where they have to work, how much they have to work.
Let’s see how the union does as management. Let’s see how the union handles salaries, wages, overtime and all of this. Who’s going to design the car? … The Sierra Club, Earth First, these will be the designers of automobiles. But now seriously, stop and think of this. The union will be on the compensation committee. The union will be determining how much the union makes. The union will be becoming management and so forth.
And, of course, nobody in the union is going to have to have had sunk a dime of investment into this company. They’re just being given these positions.
Rush is being tongue-in-cheek, but the cold hard truth is frightening. And liberals/Democrats are tickled pink by this unprecedented, unconstitutional executive overreach. Hypocrites.
This may sound hyperbolic, as readers of this blog on both sides of the fence of have occasionally have accused me of. But I’m gonna say it anyway: We are standing at the gates of tyranny. A soft tyranny, but a tyranny nonetheless.
“The Great One” Mark Levin—whose book Liberty and Tyranny is still #1 on the NY Times bestseller list but no one in the liberal mainstream media has bothered to acknowledge it—discussed this federal governmental overreach on Wednesday, starting with this quote from philosopher C. S. Lewis:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Now, if we cannot gather the courage and the confidence to stand against the soft tyranny of our day, where GM and Chrysler are being nationalized in front of our eyes by the federal government, where big chunks of the company is being delivered to the UAW, where the banks are being forced to turn their operations to the federal government through a massive stock-flipping scheme, where the government is taking over our health care system, where the government is taking over the student loan industry, where the government is making demands on the credit card industry, where the government is taking over the energy industry through the back door, where the government is on course to make us less free and poorer people, where the government is stealing the wealth of future generations as well as our own wealth … When this and more is taking place, if we cannot gather the courage to use the political process, including the primary system to fight back, then who are we? What have we become?
I don’t know what we have become, but it certainly is not the United States as envisioned by our Founders.
Today it’s Chrysler and GM. Tomorrow it will be your business. And the day after it will be your formerly-private home.
Hope and change, my gullible friends. Hope and change.
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