"Fat, Drunk, and Stupid is no way to go through life, son."
Posted on 06/01/2009 9:03:18 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Filmmaker and leftist activist Michael Moore said the demise of General Motors filled him with ‘joy’ Monday and then suggested the Obama administration launch into a massive socialization of U.S. industry to build ‘green’ autos and bullet trains.
To pay for it all, he suggests a $2 per gallon federal tax.
Writing on The Daily Beast Web site, Moore said he was writing from Flint, Michigan, GM’s birthplace, which he described as abandoned and emptied by the company’s incompetence and eagerness for cheap labor.
“Who among us wants $50 billion of our tax dollars thrown down the rat hole of still trying to save GM?,” wrote Moore, who came to fame with a film, “Roger & Me” that mocked GM’s management in the 1980s.
“It refused to build automobiles that the public wanted, cars that got great gas mileage, were as safe as they could be, and were exceedingly comfortable to drive. Oh—and that wouldn't start falling apart after two years. GM stubbornly fought environmental and safety regulations. Its executives arrogantly ignored the "inferior" Japanese and German cars, cars which would become the gold standard for automobile buyers,” Moore wrote.
He then gives 10 suggestions for revamping the auto industry and the entire U.S. infrastructure.
First, he proposes taking the money being poured into GM to give laid off workers of all stripes jobs in a massive reindustrialization similar to the World War II effort.
“Announce that we will have (My Note: The Shinkansen) bullet trains criss-crossing this country in the next five years. Japan is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its first bullet train this year.
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Why does he remind me of a big hog?
I doubt it.
The fact that Moore claimed that he drives a Chrysler is pretty solid evidence that he does not.
If Moore claimed that the sun rises in the East, I would look for the sun to rise in the West tomorrow morning.
So here we are at the deathbed of General Motors. The company's body not yet cold, and I find myself filled with -- dare I say it -- joy. It is not the joy of revenge against a corporation that ruined my hometown and brought misery, divorce, alcoholism, homelessness, physical and mental debilitation, and drug addiction to the people I grew up with. Nor do I, obviously, claim any joy in knowing that 21,000 more GM workers will be told that they, too, are without a job--Michael Moore Mass E-Mails On The End Of The Company Whose Tower "Roger" Hid In
You kidding? He, and all of "our Betters", will be given some sort of (medical/ security/whatever) wavier, allowing them soome kind of four door, duce-and-a-quarterr land yacht. You may grin, but wait and see...
Like every other Democrat, Mr. Moore is a friend to the working man and woman only when they can do something for him. Beyond that, he holds them in contempt.
When will these fools who believe in and vote for the Democrat Party ever learn?
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Michael Moore has way too big a carbon foot print and the planet would be far better off if his fat carcass was immediately recycled.
How does someone that fat and stupid live so long?
I contend that it is one of life’s greatest tragedies that Michael Moore’s mother never made the acquaintance of the recently departed George Tiller.
The same senario will play out among illegals and the left - think Sierra Club and overpopulation and water supply, etc. etc.
I kinda like it . . .
I was listening to an '08 NPR Roundtable taping earlier when it was first announced that Bush would aid the carmakers with the iniatial offering $13.5 + $4 bil. NPR reported Bush agreed with most Democrats, that this loan, as they called 'it' then, needed to be done asap to save the jobs of the workers. There were just too jobs at stake to see the Auto Industry go down. This money would last 'til March '09 was the forecast, then it would be Obama's problem.
Michael Moore is even a more despicable POS than I thought him before, since he is happy to see people suffer unnecessarily. And deluded, too, if he believes socialist policies will achieve what he apparently hopes.
The Ted Kennedy-Satan reverse soul mortgage...
I’m sure it does fill him with joy.
Michigan is a liberal paradise: they had high unemployment during the boom years. :)
No, instead let's throw away $50 billion building bullet trains to nowhere. Moore must be living a wet dream these days - every day he wakes up we are closer and closer to becoming Cuba.
“Michael Moore: GM’s Bankruptcy Fills Me With Joy”
Now we know what makes a Communist happy.
"Fat, Drunk, and Stupid is no way to go through life, son."
I should have known that. I’ve said that about Teddy for years. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
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