Polemic®

This is getting hard to understand.

There’s $700B to Happy Hank and $130B to AIG and so on and so forth, but Congress won’t cough up money for the auto industry?

I’ll be the first to lay blame at the US automakers. The last car they made worth owning was early editions of the Saturn. There should be about 1/10th the number of models and makes. (Mercury/Buick/etc.) Their “all in” move on SUVs was typically short-sighted. Et cetera.

But no matter what you think about American cars, they employ people. They make real things that people need. Can you say that about any of these paper-illusion financial companies?

I think the politics behind this is that the Republicans want to blame the auto industry’s failure on the UAW as a way to block any pro-Union legislation in the upcoming Congress. Of course a large part of this industry’s problems would go away if they weren’t paying for health care for their workers—god forbid an American job should do that…or just in general to make Obama’s job as impossible as possible.

So, even though this industry employs literally millions of people with decent jobs we’re not going to help them, but we’re going to bail out the douchebag brooks brothers mafia that continue to plop out of the anus of B-schools that created this mess in the first place??? While those assholes are whining about their bonuses and lecturing Congress for daring to attach any strings to their bailout, you know lest it fail to instill “confidence” in the market—most of Congress and the press being stupid enough to fall for that, since they actually believe that the “Market” has feelings (will anthropologists in the future think that we all worshipped an invisible, cruel, capricious, sacrifice-demanding God named “Market”?) and that the lede of every trading day news article isn’t essentially written by coin-flip, ouija board, and Magic 8-ball—the guy down the street from you that fixes mufflers at the dealer is getting laid off because GM is delaying rebate payments to their dealers for 2 weeks. Your cousin out east is getting laid of from his factory job.

That’s right. 3 million people—1% of all Americans—depend on the auto industry for their job. No bailout for you! Not even with strings attached. Not even with raised CAFE standards, or plugin and flex fuel technologies, or anything. Nothing.

It’s the final shitburger served up to the dying middle class by the Republican effort to make this country into a banana republic fit for fedualism. And this final shitburger may be more deadly than the other ones.

I’ve gone mute screaming at the pussified weak puny senate democrats to actually force a real filibuster for once. If you were holding out for one, this would be the time. How much money could we raise with pictures of that sagging semen colored multiple chinned shark-eyed dumb fuck Mitch McConnel reading the phone book at 3 a.m. to kill the American auto industry?

P.S. For the love of God—can we PLEASE stop hearing about these asshole “Reagan Republicans” in Michigan now? #%&#$@!@^&*(# Congratulations on turning your state into the first Anglo-American wasteland on the North American continent.