Does the word "hypocrisy" ring a bell?

[kpete]

MITCH ALBOM
If I had the floor at the auto rescue talks

BY MITCH ALBOM • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST • November 23, 2008

OK. It's a fantasy. But if I had five minutes in front of Congress last week, here's what I would've said:

Good morning. First of all, before you ask, I flew commercial. Northwest Airlines. Had a bag of peanuts for breakfast. Of course, that's Northwest, which just merged with Delta, a merger you, our government, approved -- and one which, inevitably, will lead to big bonuses for their executives and higher costs for us. You seem to be OK with that kind of business.

Which makes me wonder why you're so against our kind of business? The kind we do in Detroit. The kind that gets your fingernails dirty. The kind where people use hammers and drills, not keystrokes. The kind where you get paid for making something, not moving money around a board and skimming a percentage.

You've already given hundreds of billions to banking and finance companies -- and hardly demanded anything. Yet you balk at the very idea of giving $25 billion to the Detroit Three. Heck, you shoveled that exact amount to Citigroup -- $25 billion -- just weeks ago, and that place is about to crumble anyhow.

Does the word "hypocrisy" ring a bell?

more at:
http://www.freep.com/article/20081123/COL01/811230371/?imw=Y

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. I'm glad you said that. What the hell is wrong with these people? Are they crazy?

How could they give that windfall to banks, and meanwhile a huge industry that holds 3,000,000 of our jobs is allowed to fizzle out?

[SharonAnn]

7. It will let them destroy unions. That's all, folks.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

9. I hate the Repuke f*ckers. God I hope Obama helps unions. Only with unions strong...

will the rest of us who work in fields that are not unionized do well financially. Some people just don't get it do they?

[LatteLibertine]

2. Get use to it and I don't think it's "changing"

http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

[kpete]

4. check this out

World’s only private resort for billionaires goes bankrupt
http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/19-11-2008/106720-resort_billionaires-0

[GCP]

11. I'm distraught, distraught I tell you

:rofl:

[lligrd]

8. Great Article - Thanks nt

[HereSince1628]

3. You suppose it has to do with most Congress Critters having large investment portfolios

but very little personal contact with anyonen working in the auto industry?

I do. Congress is as it always has been--made up of people who are myopic.

The CEO's of the US Auto industry might be arrogant and out of touch but MANY people in the finance industry should be going to jail on the fraudulent nature of credit-default-swap derivatives. They never will.

[Demeter]

5. It's Still GOP Ideology--Based on Prejudice and "Eliteism" Not Facts

Unfortunately, it looks like democrats are no better at handling "Facts" than the GOOP.

What other explanation can there be for Pelosi NOT pursing impeachment, for the trial balloon of NOT restoring the tax on sizable fortunes, for Lieberman STILL having a committee chairmanship, for Harry Reid STILL waffling in the Senate, for Howard Dean being treated like the red-headed step child, and for countless other stupidities?

[geckosfeet]

6. Cause they make 20th century gas pigs that no one wants. Why throw good

money after bad.

What they need is the leadership to develop technology that will serve us well into the 21rst century. If they ask for money to keep building the same old crap that no one wants, how does that help anyone? The reason they got a thumbs down is that they showed no willingness to change their failed business models.

[BobRossi]

10. Bitch Albom.

Should stay with sports writing where he is almost capable.