Your REAL problem is General Motors

I haven’t heard many of you weigh in on this issue, and the ones that DID weigh in on it did so marginally, or from a view point that left me feeling that some really don’t understand…….”things”.  That issue is the announcement by GM that it intends to shutter some plants, at least one being in a state critical to President Trumps future as the leader of a nation of idiots.

Let’s take the democrat bombast out of this right away…..democrats would endure anything to ruin the President and the nation, and putting a few thousand people out of work by closing their plants is a small price to pay; I am sure that the left feels like it can get enough illegal voters, immigrants and terrorists in the nation to pick up the slack.  So let’s ignore this.  And, for the record, I get that a lot of you do not like Trumps’ tone.  I personally don’t care about his tone, I have worked for a lot of tactless people, and I myself have been accused of being a bit abrupt at times…..and I don’t think that matters as long as he is producing……face it, a lot of people he deals with need to be talked down to REGULARLY, so I don’t care….but I get it that you do.

General Motors, like the other big two of the big three car makers, suffered from YEARS of bad management, and gang rape by the UAW and its’ partners…..and I am not talking about the rank and file; if you want me to pay me $45 an hour and a pension and benefits for driving a forklift or installing a windshield…. I AM GOING TO DO IT.  I am no fan of unions, which I DO think had a role in the early 1900’s.  But union roles have largely been co-opted by the government (except for those wild ass salaries), so I ain’t feeling the love.  

Any research you do on the fall of Detroit, the car manufacturers, and US industry as a whole, places plenty of blame on the manufacturers, as well as on unions that frankly didn’t care as long as they were getting theirs’.  I WHOLEHEARTEDLY disagree with the bail out of two of the three automakers (and I drive a vehicle from one of those two).  I also disagree with the bailout of the investment banks….but that is another story.  And I DEFINITELY disagree with the way the Obama administration basically took over GM as part of the bail out.   I listened to a man who had owned a total of 18 GM cars in his life, and was heavily invested in GM, until the bail out saved the unions and cost him 50% of every nickel he had invested in GM….money that was just gone, to pay off the unions. GM and the unions could have avoided all of that, but hey, why bother when the tax payer will pay for it….and NOBODY asked the taxpayer for THEIR input.  So, GM took not only a multi-billion dollar bail out, paid off the unions, closed a bunch of dealerships, and cut the portfolio of their common stockholders in half, they did not change a single management process, the union did not change a process, it was then back to normal operating.  What most people do not know is that GM had struck a deal with the treasury, that allowed slightly less than $10 Billion of the bailout money to be put into GM’s financing arm (basically their bank); General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC), which then promptly changed its’ name to Ally Financial (or was bought by the existing Ally Financial.  That almost $10 Billion was to be used by GM to RE-PAY portions of the original loan to GM.  If it sounds like the taxpayer gave GM billions, then gave them billions to pay back the original billions….that is exactly what it did.  Now you know why experts say that we will never know if GM has actually re-paid ANY of the bail out money.  In the end, GM received around $49 billion in tax payer dollars, some of which it used to re-pay part of that very loan.  To date, the most honest figure I can find is that GM still owes about $15 billion in the original loan…..which there is some doubt will ever be repaid.

As I said, in return for the GM name, the corporation closed a slew of dealerships, actually acquiesced to a CEO put forward by the (then) Obama administration AND….and this is not a commonly known fact, became THE defacto government test bed for cars that, thus far, nobody wants.  That is correct; while demanding that GM operate at a profit, the government, under the libs, requires GM to produce cars that ensure it operates at a loss.  General Motors is now un-officially, “Government Motors”.  Overall, the loss to the government (you and me) for all of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which INCLUDED the GM bailout (the GM numbers, however are NOT included when discussing the recoup of TARP money owed) is estimated by the Treasury Department, to be $100 Billion.  A total of 30% of that is from the auto-makers.  About 70% of that 30% is from GM.  General Motors, to date, has repaid NO money as a result of profit from sales….none…..zero (I doubt they ever will).  The Treasury Department estimates that “one day”, “in the future”, when General Motors can once again sell its’ stock at a profit (stock that became virtually worthless to the stock holders after the bail out) then it will be able to repay some of the bail out money.

“Some day”, “in the future”, $49 Billion, borrowing money to pay for borrowed money, making cars that won’t sell, changing no processes….this is what happens when the government takes over stuff…..we all lose.

Why do you need to know this?  General Motors took as much money from the government as it costs to put troops on the southern border to protect from the liberal/media promoted illegal immigrant invasion…..which is all over the news regardless of how often it is shown to be a fraud.  The government, the PEOPLE, basically bought GM whether we wanted it or not (I did not)…..and in my mind, the President earned EVERY RIGHT, by virtue of the shitty deal made by his predecessor, to tell the CEO of GM what HE WANTS THEM TO DO.  He hasn’t acted through congress (and he won’t, because if it meant GM being the most dollar producing entity in the history of man, the left would oppose it because President Trump wanted it).  He hasn’t done an executive order, he hasn’t asked for legislation, he has told the CEO of GM what he WANTS to see, and GM should heed that….because they will need help again….because remember, they didn’t change anything.

If you have a problem with GM’s announcement of plant closings, after screwing its’ stockholders, paying off the unions, and returning to business as usual….then you DO have a problem with GM’s announcement of plant closings, and not the Presidents’ tone.  Take President Trump out of it and what you have a problem with is General Motors…..they robbed the nation, in daylight, in public, with government help, then robbed it again to make the first theft less painful, then ensured that they would set themselves up with government help, to rob the nation yet again.

Your problem is not with President Trump, or his tone…..or what he says, your problem is with General Motors.

It beats working......I guess

Yesterday I drove all over creation (okay, this corner of Illinois) looking for something that could have been gotten at Walmart, Home Depot, and of course, Menards (Menards has everything AND the people to help you).  I drove south and started my way north back towards Collinsville, and was pulling through the Home Depot parking lot.

AND I WAS ASSAILED BY A PANHANDLER!!!

And this guy was GOOD. He had tale of woe that SHOULD have worn him an award.  It went like this.

INTRODUCTION: (I suppose a name makes it personal).

STORY LINE:  He and his wife were visiting their daughter, a sophomore at Southern Illinois University; Edwardsville (SIUE), and their cars, BOTH of their cars, ran out of gas right there in the HD parking lot (IN PARKING SPACES NO LESS).  He claimed that neither of his debit cards worked (which I understand CAN happen if you have no frigging money), and all he needed was enough gas to make it home (which is about 30 miles outside of Columbia, MO…which is pretty much in the center of Missouri). 

ME:  “Ummmmm………..no”.

What an IDIOT….and I am sure an idiot that encounters more than a few bigger idiots….and me, being a normal thinker, thought this:  What sort of odd ball child leaves the center of Missouri, home of the University of Missouri, and Columbia College, and fights their way through about a dozen reputable schools to go to ILLINOIS and Southern Illinois University.  And what adult brings two cars across the state, and then runs out of gas and has the misfortune to not have his/her debit card not work?

But, that was more deliberation than was needed for a “no”.

Fifteen minutes from here is a steel plant, closed during the Obama years.  The plant (I think it is a US Steel plant) kept a crew there to keep the lights on, and this past year it opened up and went from about 25 people back to about a thousand is still re-bounding.  This week there were ads in the paper for jobs at that plant….not boilermakers, not engineers, not technicians, just people……for $21 an hour.  Walk in, pass a drug test (increasingly more difficult these days; I get that), and start at $21.  I have every idea that it is back breaking work….I mean, IT IS A STEEL plant, but you don’t have to know crap…..just come to work….that’s it.

And it SURE as hell has to beat panhandling in shin deep snow in 28 degrees in the Home Depot parking lot.

Some people…..but the good news is that the House of Representatives, and before next week is out, probably the Senate, are these kinds of peoples people…..that plant may close and pan handling will be an honorable profession.  In this state it will be unionized and a new protected class established.

Maybe the panhandler is on the cutting edge of something.

All is well in the world today

Well.  Well it has been almost a week since the midterm elections.  Not only is Nancy Pelosi doing a victory lap, but New York elected the first openly economically ignorant AND arrogant congress woman, the democrats elected a female muslim who is demanding the end of Israel, Arizona looks like they may have elected a next generation McCain/Flake in Ms Sinamen (whatever her name is), who is on record for being anti-military as well as anti-border enforcement, and both Georgia an Florida may have elected corrupt, racist socialists, and Florida FOR CERTAIN has a problem in obeying election law…..in other words, a liberal day at the beach for voting.

BUT, there is no fraud, despite the fact that overwhelming leads by Americans are virtually always reduced if not eliminated by “ballatology” that inevitably favors only democrats.

There is no fraud.

There are also no street standoffs between irate, redneck white men, proto/pseudo NAZI’s or fascists, or anti-abortion Christian fundamentalist.  No conservative sideshow has whipped out an arsenal of “assault weapons” and gone all Rambo on a school yard.  Nobody’s health care has been revoked, women aren’t being groped by roving gangs of judges……as a matter of fact, nothing from the right, projected as happening if every single democrat in the land was not elected re-elected, elevated, promoted, worshipped and deified……has happened.

Clearly all is right in the world again…..the left has won the house and can ramp up their efforts at deconstructing the nation…and that was a close call….who KNEW that all of those damned racist, raping, hayseed Christians were going to ramp it up and vote for Trump?  I mean, the left couldn’t POSSIBLY have realized that there were actually people, Americans, in this country that saw what the left had done and was doing to this nation and were willing to quit having sex with their underaged neighbors long enough to find their way to the polls.  THAT was close.  It has taken two years of the left campaigning against and railing against the system, the law, and the people that prevailed two years ago, in order to get them to last week….where they could take a breath, a short one, before making sure Americans are not ever heard again.

In the House of Representatives the left returned a majority of people that, for two years, have been filmed by and promoted by and campaigned for by the media, preaching against the people.  They promised higher taxes, more liberal judges, more illegal immigration, less law enforcement, less decency, less safety, less defense, more social give aways, more regulation, a return as promised to the days of Obama.  THEY PROMISED to defeat the people, to defeat the nation, to defeat the principles, to re-define the language, to cater to every single splinter idea in order to hold power….and they got enough idiots, or created enough of the idiots, to believe that promise, and that it was better than what they have.

You will hear no more from Madonna and DeNiro, Streisand and Cher……the left is back……serfdom is the new success…..failure and corruption and lying the new cache, the coin of their realm.

All is well in the world again.

The loser is now bigger than a political party, the Americans.  The loser is also not just the people who set the nation back on course, didn’t fix it, but nudged it back on course.  After Tuesday the loser is the world…..we have proven that the media, the liars, the left, the unedjucated, the uninformed, the ones that chose raw, stupid emotion over rational thought and learning, can not just destroy a nation….but destroy the very idea of a nation.  The left has hated the idea of the nation since before the ink dried on the Constitution, and they proved it on Tuesday.

All is well in the world again…..the comeback might take another two, maybe six years….but the left has showed us who our real masters are…

…..as well as what they are willing to do to remain our real masters.

The victory government education over the nation

I have heard many people, smart people, not people in the media or other lefties, but common, working people, ask how in the world it was possible for a democrat to be elected dog catcher last week.  That is a valid question, unless you live in NY, CA or IL where it is a waste of oxygen.  But, rather than analyze the question, I offer you an answer via a real life, no shit, serious conversation that I had with a US Army Colonel on Monday night.  This story DID happen, I was a part of it, and my head still hurts.

So, it was election night.  The only humans on our floor of this huge, joint headquarters, with tentacles around the world are me and a US Army Colonel.  She makes the comment, as she is watching the coverage, that “she cannot believe that the republicans are beating “us” by so much.  I heard that and let it go for a few reasons; she is a colonel and I am a contractor and I do not need that crap sandwich because I would have it force fed to me and shown the door, plus I like the woman, she is a good person.  And I get it, she is a mixed race (black and Algonquin Indian-believe THAT or not- and she is obviously a female and she is from Massachucetts……so there is literally NO breaking through that leftist skull.  But like I said, get past the intellectual disconnect of serving your nation in uniform and being a democrat, she is a good person.  A few moments passed and she said, I think just speaking out loud, “What’s the big deal about the congress?  Congress and the senate are about the same, right?”

She should have said “those ones”, because I damned near stroked out right there.  I composed myself and said “eighth grade civics ma’am.”  She asked me what I meant.  Now, she is a few years younger than me, but not by much.  Most of my peer group is either retired or are 2 and 3 star generals now, so as colonel would be my age junior, meaning that she MUST have had just a little of what you and I think of or remember as “civics”.

I explained to her in painstaking detail the intent of the lower and upper houses of “congress”, including the fact that, technically a “senator”, like a “representative” was also a “congressman”…..a small point but one lost on most people.  I explained the difference in intent, that one represents the interest of the state, the other of the people OF the state, and that the house was the only part of congress that it was specified would be elected “by the people”.  I explained to her the seventeenth amendment and why I thought that was a bad idea.  She listened, she seemed to understand, but I in no way “educated” her.

And I KNOW I in no way educated her, because before we were done, she made the comment that she felt like the democrats offered more “freedom” and she was committed to womens’ “freedom of choice”.

And you cannot, you CAN NOT reason with people of that mindset.  A key element of their development is missing, has been ignored or not even addressed, and that is “edjukation”.  For a leader, a field grade officer, in the US armed forces to interpret socialism as “providing more freedom” is an abomination…..agree or disagree you should at least UNDERSTAND.  Also, to not know the difference and intent of the two houses of the US legislature is also a tragedy, especially if you are voting for either.  AND….and, this problem ONLY gets worse the younger the voter.  The college generation of today would be flabbergasted to know the intent of the federal government, the meaning and the purpose, because their whole life they have been fed a lie, if fed at all.  For them, the XVIIth amendment, which makes both houses a popularity contest among the uninformed, seems perfectly normal.

And bona fide idiots making public pronouncements showing THEIR lack of understanding of the system in which they are in, don’t help.  Wednesday Nancy Pelosi, celebrating the lefts regaining the majority in the House, praised the founders for establishing the legislative branch first among the branches of the government.  Her position was that the fact that the legislative branch was first in the constitution, it was an indicator the importance the founders put on the legislature.  However, even an exhaustive reading of the founders papers would give no indication OTHER THAN the fact that the states already had several, different, legislative bodies, giving the founders something to work with rather than creating something out of whole cloth, as the reason for establishing the legislature first in sequence.  The three branches of government are supposed to be, meant to be, co-equal.

But Pelosi is an idiot….and this colonel is not….you don’t get to be a colonel by being a moron……the military actually considers that a disqualifier (usually).  The colonel is only indoctrinated.

Most likely, like your kids….or possibly, even your family.

The cognitive dissonance of the left

Election 2018 and the cognitive dissonance of the left.

Despite that hefty title above, I am going to zip right through this….no need to write even MORE common sense shit that will have ZERO impact.

In 1988 Bush the Elder swore on the campaign trail that you should read his lips….”No New Taxes”.  He promptly back pedaled in 1990 and signed a democrat house budget that was jammed full of new taxes.  How did the left force Bush to become a liar?  Why, the threat of a government shut down of course.  That boogey man that most Americans with a brain could not care any less about.  The left considered, and considers him a hero for hiking taxes.  They considered him so much of a hero that they ran against him with a philandering, likely rapist, former hillbilly governor, steeped in more than a few dishonest dealings and married to a woman only slightly more corrupt than him.  That candidate, Bill Clinton, remarked during and after the campaign that the issues facing the nation could be summarized in the sound bite “It’s the economy stupid”.  I always thought it telling that the left got their tax increases and two years later had to run on the economy….should not the economy have been a non-issue?  For virtually the entirety of the Clinton administration the economy WAS good…fueled in large part by Al Gores invention of the internet.  But the economy was like “The Matrix”, a system on top of a system…..what WE saw was under cut by regulation, the monstrous government Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac scam…..and a system like that, which we saw around 2007 cannot sustain itself…you simply can’t poison the goose and expect it to continue to lay golden eggs.

You saw what I did there, right?

So, why bother you with all of that?  Good question.  The left cornholed the nation and Bush reneged on his promise, which probably cost him re-election, making him a leftist hero.  In return, the nation as a whole didn’t get shit while setting the stage for Obama, eight years in which the nation got shit on.  Despite what you read from Paul Krugman and Robert Reich, no existing metric indicates that anything Obama and the left did, was good for the economy.  I think that the best thing that can be said is that we didn’t ALL end up homeless AND jobless.  We experienced the worst recovery from the worst economy since numbers have been kept on the issue, and that INCLUDES the great depression under FDR, which history indicates would have been a hell of a lot less severe had it not been for government intervention.  All of his speeches notwithstanding, along with the revisionist history being written on the left daily, cannot change that.

What has changed that is President Trump and his policies…..I can barely spell economix, but what I read, the same indicators used to illustrate the failures of Obama and the left, is good. 

Yet, on Tuesday, thousands, hundred of thousands, maybe millions will go to the polls and vote against their best interests, and the interests of the entire nation.  They will vote for increased taxes, and increased spending, but for no return on the investment.

Today, next week rather, we will see that the left has been stunningly successful in getting people to not look at what is important.

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     Thousands of people will vote for women because they actually believe that women tell the truth about the sexual predations of males 100% of the time, and consider an allegation as good as proof and are pissed off that Brett Kavenaugh was not tarred and feathered for something for which there is no proof.

·        Thousands of people will vote for ANYONE that will promise them unfettered, free health care.  They will love the idea “medicare for life.”  They will ignore the reality that THAT promise will require the eliminiation of medicare as we know it, the removal of all private insurance and a tax to provide a government plan called medicare for life, which will break the nation.

·        Thousands of people will vote for the person that promises to accept all comers, regardless of point of origin or intent; you want to come to America, come to America, on our dime.  The news media will tell you that the constitutionalists, those of law and order kill joys, are trying to scare you with stories of importing disease, crime and poverty…..assuming that none of you are currently living among the disease, crime and poverty.

·        Thousands of people will vote for candidates that despise law and order, like the leftist candidate for the governor of Florida, primarily because they are idiots.  Those same people will vote for someone who promises to ban guns, because they were not idiot enough already.

·        College kids around the nation will vote for someone solely because he or she supports LBGTQXYZ (whatever), and thinks that those people deserve all of the rights that they already have.

·        Supporters of ANTIFA will flock to the polls to prove that education and money cannot make you civilized….and they will vote for those who support that.

·        Droves will vote for liberal plans that require increased taxes and promise nothing in return.  Ask yourself, if government, especially liberal government, with its’ hands in your wallet up to the elbow, could FIX crime, shitty public education, crappy college programs, leftist generated racism, un-livable (almost exclusively liberally run) cities, illegal immigration, religious persecution, broken foreign policy….while making America prosperous…..don’t you think it would have happened by now?

And guess what?….It won’t even take a year before the mistake is plain for even Ray Charles to see.  Returning businesses will not, hiring will slow, economic growth will plummet, illegal immigration will cease to exist because the name will be changed, unemployment and crime will be up, the world will be increasingly violent and America will not be nearly as safe as it is.  And all of those people voting for leftards on Tuesday will be scratching their asses and wondering “What happened?  What did Trump do?”  They will never ask what they did.

Cognitive, intellectual dissonance; they will be completely unable or unwilling to confront the reality that, voting for the left, is a vote for their own enslavement.

And two years from now…unable to grasp simple reality, they will do it again.

The Root...professionally crazy

I am beginning to wonder if “The Walking Dead” is a TV show, or a news commentary.

I read something on Face Book today, and before you spew your beer on your keyboard, hear me out.  Some clown, and that is being generous and I am ONLY being generous because he was serious, so I figured he was mentally un-packaged, some clown posted a graph purporting to show that about 90% of all domestic terrorist attacks in the US were by white men (and remarkably poorly planned I might add, because there are A LOT of shitheads that would not be upright if 90% of all domestic terrorist attacks were by thinking, white males…..and you know who you are). 

And like I said, this clown was serious.

His graph was from the black / urban publication “The Root”……and I actually considered subscribing until I realized that the standard mail box can’t hold that much shit.  And “The Root” used as a reference “Google (never, ever biased), an un-named former source at the Department of Homeland Security…..AND….Mother Jones.

No reason to question any of THAT bullshit, is there?

Of course there is….so let’s get started.

Forget the source material….for all I know one or two of the statistics might actually be correct, meaning that the sources did not do their own research.  That said…..what is considered a “Domestic Terrorist?”  And I don’t mean the definition in an Obama sort of way, but  real one?  To say that 90% of all domestic terror attacks are by white males should, on the face of it, mean that all terrorist attacks on US soil, by US citizens are white males….and in a nation that is about 80% white, that could be possible.  BUT….that would mean that a domestic terror attack is not the same as a murder in Saint Louis, East Saint Louis, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, El Paso, New York City, Miami, New Orleans; all places where the vast, VAST majority of murders are committed by non-whites on non-white victims.  Notice that “The Root” did not draw attention to THAT.

Is a “domestic terrorist attack” an attack with a particular kind of weapon?  If you are sprung load to the “AR-15” weapon answer, cool your jets.  As someone pointed out, AGAIN, this week, almost ZERO gun murders are done by someone wielding ANY rifle, and less by those wielding a weapon designed on the AR-15 platform.  SUICIDE claims almost as many annual victims as murder and the good old fashioned ass beating is still the murder leader (albeit delivered with a ball bat or hammer)…..so that cannot be the “domestic terrorist” trigger.

Let’s take a good look at terminology….if you are informed at all, you have heard of the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The SPLC was founded during the civil rights heyday, and unlike most conservatives I am willing to give them the prop that AT ONE TIME the organization had some noble objectives.  However, today the SPLC is a leftist tool, aimed at villainizing the white male and the Constitution.  Don’t take my word for it, you would be an idiot if you did that….read for yourself.  When you look at the statistics compiled and reported by the SPLC, you would think that white males are a black lynching, Jew burning, female raping, thunder monsters.  I gotta admit……the thunder monster thing sounds cool in a DC Comics, Batman sort of way.  That aside……the SPLC, though deeply empowered by, and trusted by the left (they even prepare briefs ahead of hearings on judicial nominees, is far more of a hate group, far more dangerous to the republic than any “hate group” of white males.  The SPLC definition of a domestic terrorist attack will almost, by necessity, focus ONLY on white males…..a fairly useless, though widely used, tool of the left.

Now, the stupidity of the article aside, let’s take it for what it is.  Let me change that; what it wants to be.  President Trump is not a racist, is not an anti-Semite and will never rival Don Lemon for race hatred.  Smart people, and ones on the left sometimes too, do not listen to some IDIOT like Maxine Waters and translate that stupidity into a shooting spree.  All of the efforts of CNN, MSNBC, the other networks and the print media is NOT going to make white males and Christians and Constitutionalist the animals that the left wants them to be…..and you would think that they would learn….these idiots that shoot up others, with the possible exception of the dude that shot Steve Scalise, are not conservatives, no matter how they are reported by the media.  Conservative principles, which are traditionally American principles, don’t motivate people to kill people.  Crazy motivates them.  And it appears to me that the left, and “The Root” should spend a little less time casting the white, conservative male as a terrorists, and start working on the real problems.

Democrats.

Sorta get to “The Root” of the issue.