Dollar Failure OK, Big 3 Failure Unacceptable

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The current administration has no issue with endless cash printing, fractionally reserving the dollar toward Mugabesque inflation, and debt ceilings that reach into the stratosphere. But the automakers cannot fail.  Apparently it is actually impossible.

Congress refused an auto bailout, but the WHite House, never an entity to let the chains of legality hold it back, is going to step in and try to force the issue. One can only imagine whether, if things continue, the White House would issue an executive order disallowing a GM bankruptcy filing, or whether it would demand the FBI arrest any bankruptcy judge willing to consider such a filing.

Nero Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino muddled reality as defenders of emperors and despots often do, stating:

A precipitous collapse of this industry would have a severe impact on our economy, and it would be irresponsible to further weaken and destabilize our economy at this time.

And thus the attitude of government is summed up rather succinctly, allowing natural laws to unfold is tantamount to making thing happen.  This position is not dissimilar to stating that by Congress failing to ban the sunset, the government caused the next day to appear illuminated on the horizon.

There is no authority this President thinks he lacks, and his god complex is as understandable as the tearful screams of a spoiled child.  Congress has given Herr Bush nearly everything he’s ever wanted, and failed to take away even his most dangerous toys.  Even through their alleged anger, name calling, and suggestions of blatant wrongdoing, Congress has not lifted a finger in defense of the Constitution or to ensure any ceiling on executive powers–and the Democrats have had a majority since 2006.

The doom and gloom what-if? prophesies of ignorant government and their economic cronies does not change the fact that bankrupt motor companies will continue to exist; that someone will purchase them, reorganize them and improve them.  The repeated nonsense that “we can’t let them fail” sound like the musings of a madman.  They have already failed.  Taxpayer-funded bailouts will not change that sad fact, nor will such “salvation” last very long under the weight of union contracts ensuring workers at the Big 3 make twice what other autoworkers do.

The sudden interest in the survival of the economy is beyond laughable coming from a President who salivates at the thought of engaging in the unaffordable, like gift to African despots, endless wars fought for increasingly vague objectives, and the largest non-military spending increases in human history.  Now we are to believe that further damaging the dollar by creating wealth with which to plug the massive holes in a sinking ship is a good idea.  Next he is going to repeat him commitment to the free market while the MSM regurgitates its definition of the nationalizing fascist as a “conservative” and “constructionist.”

Whether to make a real point, or hope to embarrass them into considering the truth, Operation Legislative Education is a real step toward informing Congress that there are plenty of us who aren’t going to stand for government by whim.

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