We have with great frequency catalogued the ongoing farce that is the federal government’s $49.9 billion bailout of General Motors. Yesterday delivered us the next two-step in the charade.
The White House, for its part, was again in full self-rapture mode:
How Tough Love Averted Catastrophe & Led to 4,200 New American Jobs
These are allegedly new General Motors (GM) gigs. According to the White House’s own blog, we are still in full-on Government Motors mode.
The author is Ron Bloom, who is Assistant to the President for Manufacturing Policy (National Economic Council). And he repeatedly hails a “bold” President Obama for facing GM’s bankruptcy “head-on” with “tough love.”
“Tough love” the White House claims just resulted in 4,200 new gigs.
Or did it?
Remember the lamest of the lame attempted spin on the nearly 2009 $1 trillion alleged “stimulus” bill? It didn’t create jobs, it “created or saved” them?
The media fell for it like, well, always when it comes to Left-wing gyrations.
Well it appears that there aren’t “4,200 new American jobs” at GM. There are 4,200 jobs “new or preserved.” Which sounds like a new media euphemism for the same lame “stimulus” spin.
And so it is.
GM announces it will add or preserve 4,000 jobs
GM to add or preserve 4,000 jobs, invest $2B in plants
General Motors $2 billion investment expected preserve up to 2,000 local jobs
Although it appears CNN’s Roland Martin didn’t get the memo:
GM Expansion To Save Or Create 4,200 Jobs
Here’s to the terrible mangling of the language and our sensibilities that is “added or preserved” having an even shorter shelf life than did “created or saved.”
But how many of those jobs are added or preserved in the U.S.? And how many are do nothing, smoke dope in the parking lot union jobs that contribute nothing to the economy?
As many as you want. One thing about those “saved or created” numbers is that they are unfalsifiable.
They’re not *totally* unfalsifiable — you can’t claim to have “created or saved” more jobs than exist within the entire company….
Oh, wait, then you start “creating or saving” in the supply chain. Never mind.
Soon we’ll hear about jobs “created or saved” in the lunch truck biz near factories or dealerships.
25% were actually saved or created by McDonald’s.
Folks would be hard pressed to find anybody more traditional and patriotic than myself and our families. However, we wouldn’t lose a wink of sleep if any of the Big Three went under and went away. Not because they lack their once great quality, but because they feed the corruption of the labor unions throughout the chain of the auto industry.
We will continue to purchase our many vehicles from right-to-work states and non unionized auto and truck mfg’s.