Another Rendell Bailout: Building Ships With No Buyers

Freindly Fire Zone ^ | 6 Jan 2011 | Chris Freind

[grace522]

In the movie Dave, Kevin Kline plays a presidential lookalike who finds himself running the country after the real President falls into a coma. Convening a Cabinet meeting, this political novice uses common sense to expose the ludicrous mentality of the entrenched Business As Usual crowd.

Kline asks the Commerce Secretary about an ad campaign his Department has implemented to boost consumer confidence in the American auto industry. “It’s designed to bolster individual confidence in a previous domestic automotive purchase,” the Secretary proudly explained.

Speechless at first, Kline fires back, “We're spending millions for somebody to feel good about a car they already bought? I don't want to tell an eight-year-old kid he's gotta sleep in the street because we want people to feel better about their car. Do you want to tell him that?” The shocked Secretary (finally) sees the light, and the program is eliminated.

Incredibly, that mentality isn’t limited to fictional Hollywood scripts, but is a large part of the way our governmental leaders operate. Look at what Pennsylvania’s Ed Rendell is trying to pull off before he walks out of the Governor’s Mansion a few weeks from now.

Shortly before leaving office, Rendell authorized $42 million in taxpayer money to be sent to the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) to help bail out the sinking Aker Shipyard in Philadelphia.

The funding, we are told, would prevent Aker from going under, since it would be building two new tanker ships.

Of course, there’s one small problem.

There are no buyers for the ships. And the prospect of that changing course anytime soon is virtually nonexistent.

[grace522]

Good stuff!

[familyop]

Heh. Here’s the kind of car that the wise can maintain. See ya on the other side of “TEOTWAWKI.” ;-)

http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_wind_modelAtest.html

[familyop]

"Shortly before leaving office, Rendell authorized $42 million in taxpayer money to be sent to the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) to help bail out the sinking Aker Shipyard in Philadelphia."

And BTW, according to morons, that'll build "ships" alright.

"Lying twisted and broken under the acceleration, Barlow realized that some things had not changed, that Jack Ketch was never asked to dinner however many shillings you paid him to do your dirty work, that murder will out, that crime pays only temporarily." --Cyril M. Kornbluth, "The Marching Morons"

[brityank]

"Shortly before leaving office, Rendell authorized $42 million in taxpayer money to be sent to the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) to help bail out the sinking Aker Shipyard in Philadelphia."

Fast Eddie's going out with a bang! Plus he blew up with Leslie Stahl on '60 Minutes' about the casinos: "If they're going to blow their paychecks, then we should make sure we get the money in PA!" F'n lying thief.

[Tribune7]

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