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Title: Obama outsources Chrysler
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Michigan Review
URL Source: http://www.michiganview.com/article/20120715/MIVIEW/207150347
Published: Jul 18, 2012
Author: Jason Vines
Post Date: 2012-07-18 11:13:16 by jwpegler
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Views: 1453
Comments: 2
The Obama administration is breaking the laws of the land at such breakneck speed, it would make Tricky Dick Nixon and Scarface Al Capone blush. The latest? Slander against Mitt Romney and defying a nearly two-decades-old welfare reform law crafted by Bubba Clinton and a bi-partisan Congress. The Romney slander is further evidence that: 1) President Obama hasn't the remotest idea how business works; and 2) his campaign is desperately seeking to discuss anything besides his record. Romney's Bain Capital was in the private equity business - meaning it bought troubled firms that would otherwise "buy the farm" in order to fix them, thus saving the company and jobs. That included outsourcing company sectors that were uncompetitive (sometimes the very reason the company was on the verge of death in the first place.) Obama and his team don't seem to get this - even though Team Obama itself has been party to two prime examples of outsourcing: Fisker Motors and Chrysler. Electric carmaker Fisker (run by One Percenter Henrik Fisker, ahem) got bucket-loads of taxpayer cash (officially bagillions) and is building luxury sports cars in. . . Finland. "We're not in the business of failing; we're in the business of winning. So we make the right decision for the business," Fisker says. "That's why we went to Finland." At Chrysler the whole company - minus a few thousand dealers and employees who got the ziggy - was outsourced to Italian automaker Fiat in order to save it. As with private equity, Obama's outsourcing has come with mixed results. Fisker has pretty much been a basket case since day one - and may never build a single vehicle in the U.S. as promised when it got the dough. Chrysler's results, thanks to St. Sergio Marchionne, have been marvelous and the company is on solid footing again, saving tens of thousands of jobs - and the communities their facilities serve - in the process. Calling Romney a felon after he went to save the Olympics while Bain did the same thing as Obama's auto task force is so slanderous that the liberal Washington Post's fact checker took only four hours to call Team Obama's charges a lie. A lie. Bammo Obamo. Crime #2 last week was against the 51 percent of us Americans that pay taxes. With an official policy directive, Obama negated Clinton's 1996 bipartisan welfare reform by flushing the federal requirement that - to get a welfare check - you must either work or train for work. "According to the Congressional Research Service, those requirements are 'mandatory' and cannot be waived even though some other parts of the law can," said the Washington Examiner in a Sunday editorial. "Part of the law," that is, unless you're Obama - who for the sake of truthfulness, should change his campaign slogan from "Moving Forward" to "Laws are Meant to be Broken." Too harsh? Consider the rap sheet: - Would the U.S. Attorney in Washington D.C.'s prosecute AG Eric Holder for his criminal contempt of Congress - even after a bi-partisan vote on the botched "Fast and Furious" debacle? Nope. - Would the administration prosecute Black Panthers practicing blatant voter intimidation? Nada. - Reward Arizona for upholding federal laws against illegal immigration? No. - Allow states to purge illegal voters (including dead people and foreign nationals) from the voter ranks? No. (Oh, and this is after our federal government files suits against states trying to make sure people voting are actually who they say they are by demanding a Photo I.D.) And then there is this gem: "The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve an actual or imminent threat to our nation." Those words were freshman U.S. Senator Barack Obama's - criticizing his predecessor, George W. Bush. But when Libya blew up, President Obama did not practice what he preached. On CBS Sunday morning, Obama complained about his inability to "change" Washington. Oh, Mr. President, you have indeed changed Washington AND our country. For the worse.
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#1. To: All (#0)
And of course, do it retroactively.
"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom (A.K.A. minnigold)
#2. To: jwpegler (#1)
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