President Obama got the opportunity to trumpet his campaign season theme of the revival of American auto companies and to court his needed union supporters in one shot in an address to the United Auto Workers today.
“And you know why I knew this rescue would succeed?” Obama said at the union’s Washington convention. “It wasn’t because of anything the government did. It wasn’t just because of anything management did. It was because I believed in you.
“I placed my bet on American workers,” the president continued, according to prepared remarks released by the White House. “And I’d make that same bet again any day of the week. Because three years later, that bet is paying off for America. Three years later, the American auto industry is back.”
Obama told the union members “you make me proud” and said the auto bailout helped save a million jobs in their manufacturing sector.
“Think about everyone who depends on you – schoolteachers and small-business owners; the server in the diner who knows your order and the bartender who’s waiting for you when you get off,” the president said. “Their livelihoods were at stake, too.”
He used the address on the friendly turf to criticize opponents of the GM and Chrysler rescue.
“It’s been funny to watch some of these politicians completely rewrite history now that you’re back on your feet,” Obama said. “These are the folks who said if we went forward with our plan to rescue Detroit, ‘you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye.’ Now they’re saying they were right all along.
“Or worse, they’re saying that the problem is that you, the workers, made out like bandits in all of this; that saving the American auto industry was just about paying back unions,” he said. “Really? Even by the standards of this town, that’s a load of you-know-what.”
This is typical psychological profiling. These people have been the bait of many politicians and union leaders being lead by the nose and they donot even see it.Obama’s speech writer uses psychological profiling to create a self-serving speech to boost up the confidence of the rank and file. Nowadays people are looking for any boost they can get to feel good about the future and he is feeding this bs to everyone he can.
In reality, Obama believed in the American taxpayer. When you take tens of billions of dollars of debt off the books of a company (paid by the taxpayers), of course it can turn a profit. And the government takeover circumvented normal bankruptcy procedures, placing unsecured union debt ahead of secured bondholder debt. Remind anyone of Solyndra? So, of course this is part of a pattern of union favoritism (every time Obama says “middle class”, translate this as “union workers”). And notice that Obama rejects the charge without providing any evidence that it is wrong.
The president called charges that the auto bailout was about paying back unions a “load of you-know-what.”
Here are a couple of other (reasonably accurate) allegations that this president might call a load of crap.
That his administration is intentionally using the espionage act to silence its critics
That he and his liberal cronies think the United States Constitution is outdated & that they know better
“And you know why I knew this rescue would succeed?” Obama said at the union’s Washington convention. “It wasn’t because of anything the government did. It wasn’t just because of anything management did. It was because I believed in you.
So typical of Obama.
It all starts with him, the lowering of the seas, the soundness of a business, yea even the soundness of a nation. Everything.
He has even said…”The difference now is that you’ve got me.”
(Oh boy, have we got you. And can’t wait to un-get you.)
– Obama Load.
Government Motors still owes us taxpayers 13 billion, or 13 thousand million.
The irony about the big 3 and the UAW is that their best selling vehicles, those that deliver the profits, are trucks and SUVS, vehicles loathed by the Left. It is we conservatives that keep both Detroit and the UAW afloat. We fund our enemies in the UAW who funnel money to the Democrats. We fund the opposition.
Conservatives need to stop buying American branded cars to break the back of the UAW.
TOYOTA!
Our “Scary” President
Less than four months into the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, Lou Pritchett, a former vice president of Procter and Gamble, posted an open letter to Obama on his blog which began, “Dear President Obama: You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.”
The original missive had been sent by the legendary corporate legend, noted public speaker, author, and teacher to the New York Times which chose not to print it although less distinguished publications did. It was subsequently accorded the seal of accuracy by leftist-leaning Snopes.com and only now has gone viral.
In retrospect, it’s understandable why the Times, a principal MSM Obama lackey, wanted no part of Pritchett’s letter but Obamians predictably came out in force to condemn Pritchett for his stupidity, ignorance, inaccuracies, and venom for daring to express his viewpoints on their Anointed One.
The letter reflects the author’s early and insightful realization that America was in serious trouble with our new leader and commander-in-chief.
Just months into Obama’s tenure, Pritchett noted Obama was unfit for office by virtue of his murky background, lack of experience and qualifications, radical past associations, arrogant sense of omnipotence and omniscience, his demonization of all opponents, and his extreme spending and health care plans which have since come to fruition.
In what is easily the scariest feature of Pritchett’s alarm was citing Obama’s mainstream media for its failure to vet candidate Obama as it had always done with previous presidential hopefuls and, since his election, has given him a free ride, never questioning his motives, never investigating his claims, never doubting his sincerity.
The remainder of Lou Pritchett’s letter follows: (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=15150.)
I hope everybody’s feet were off the floor.
Chrysler is NOT an American auto manufacturer any more. Italian Fiat owns over 50% and is on track to own 70%