Cash for Clunkers

How about that? Big and Bigger Governments new program to make automobiles more affordable is working.

Cash-for-Clunkers

Who would've guessed that making cars more affordable would encourage Americans to buy them. Certainly not the Detroit automakers otherwise they would've thought of it 30 YEARS AGO!

While car prices have been sky-rocketing to pay for fender rivoters' pension plans and free healthcare America has been sinking further and further into oblivion. We get all panicky when someone uses the phrase "socialized medicine" but nobody says a word when they socialist based United Auto Workers union (UAW) runs roughshod over the American auto indutry. The socialst UAW has run the auto industry and the American economy into the ground.

Compare socialism to the UAW. In both the workers get free healthcare, guaranteed pensions plans, and paid when they don't work (laid off workers get 95% of their take home pay and benefits).

The UAW workers are a financial burden. The foreign auto-makers have proven that it's possible to make affordable cars on Amercan soil. American auto-makers just don't seem to have a clue how to do it. They could stop over-paying the UAW employees for doing jobs just about anyone can learn how to do in a matter of weeks. In a November 18, 2008, New York Times editorial, Andrew Ross Sorkin showed that, counting benefits, each UAW worker receives $74 per hour while Toyota workers receive about $44 per hour.

The whole assembly line technique was invented by Henry Ford. Henry Ford wanted the factory to be filled with what he called "Farmer Machines". They were called "Farmer Machines" because they were supposed to be so simple to use that he could take any farmer out of the field and have them productive in two weeks. The auto industry is no different today. Why should UAW workers be making the same money as highly educated people with Bachelor and Masters degrees for doing jobs so simple any High School can do them?

Obama-care!

Socialized medicine? Bring it on. I’d like free healthcare and I’d also like the rich to pay for it. Come on. Who wouldn’t like the idea of Oprah, Alec Baldwin and Michael Moore paying for our healthcare so we don’t have to? I think it’s a GREAT idea.

Ok, ok. Sure there are flaws. Barry Obama and Nancy “never blink” Pelosi’s healthcare plan is horrible. It’ll never work. It’ll wreak havoc with our healthcare system and damage the economy. So what?

I think we can all agree that the current system of healthcare in America is ALSO horrible. It is a broken and antiquated system that is collapsing on itself and bringing America down with it. So why replace one horrible system with another horrible system? Well, to get rid of the current horrible system, run the democrats out of office and fix the new horrible system.

If “Obama-care” becomes the law of the land then we’ll all suffer and the rich will pay for it. Thanks to our wonderful form of Democracy the politicians will also pay for it. When everything comes crashing down the newly elected politicians replacing the outgoing politicians that messed things up will have no choice but to fix the system. Plus, it’ll be nearly impossible to go back to the current horrible system. Yay!

Once us meek common folk out here have free healthcare we’re not going to want to go back to paying for it. The new politicians in office will fix the system or they’ll be leaving office next. We’ll keep replacing the current bozos with new bozos until the system is fixed. It’ll be a vicious cycle that’ll benefit all because that’s how democracy works.

What? Mix socialism and democracy together? Yes, of course. We already do it all the time. Our public school system, library systems and police and fire departments are ALL socialist programs within our capitalist democracy. The right mix of socialism, capitalism and democracy will always be the strongest system.