For those of you who think America is on a downward trajectory, heading for violent impact soon, here is a video Mr Green found, showing the glory years of Detroit. We weren’t always ruled by a Marxist Kenyan intent on collapsing the system and destroying the middle class, pushing the middle class down to ghetto levels. If you scroll back a ways or use a keyword search, you can find a video maybe two pages back that covers what Detroit once was and what it is now. Also, you can search for Mr White’s essays on the topic.
BEGINS:
http://www.archive.org/details/LostLandscapesOfDetroit2010
Anyone who knows Detroit from the old days should find this of interest. It is a compilation of historic footage and some old home movies that give glimpses into Detroit from the 1920s until about 1970.
It is an hour long, so you might want to skip ahead. Worth watching are the following time codes:
15:15 – A news feature about the anti-Vietnam war protests going on, circa 1970
28:15 – Glimpses of various local businesses and car dealers
31:15 – A cool old “Hot Rod Shop” building
40:00—A Detroit Police Dept public relations film, circa 1950
52:40 – A PR film for Detroit “City on the Move”, circa 1963
How times have changed!
The video reminds of a Mr White post from many months ago. Here it is:
“Yo, Prez. Whattup?”
It’s the latest greeting in the black community. One that didn’t exist before Barack Obama ascended to deity status and the Oval Office. One side benefit of BO’s election could be a reduction, if not elimination, of the young black men and women given the name “Prince” or “King” or “Queen” or “Princess” as though these names would confer a status upon the possessor they might otherwise not achieve.
It’s damned frustrating to watch as a person who lived through the 1967 riots that tore Detroit apart, and ushered in an era of government-directed rebuilding that papered over the wounds and led to the even greater decline the city has suffered since. If you want to know what the future of the United States looks like under the current Progressive regime—both Democrat and Republican—look no farther than Detroit, for its current foundation has been built upon a virulent mixture of paranoia, victimhood and racism that pits city against suburb and has driven the populace away.
Once the country’s fourth largest city, Detroit has slipped to 11th, and will fall farther should the next census be even close to above board. Abandoned homes and buildings scar the skyline, and broad areas are open to the point that deer herds can be seen running (Local joke: “They want out of Detroit, too.”) should your plane be redirected on the long stack-up route that takes you out over the Detroit River on your way into Metropolitan Airport. This state of affairs pre-dates the collapse of the domestic auto industry, and has its roots in the days when Detroit was the wood-burning stove capital of the world. An industrial city, Detroit attracted immigrants from every corner of the globe, including a black population with fresh memories of Jim Crow laws in the South. This population grew exponentially when the auto industry opened the floodgates for unskilled labor.
Detroit has been a segregated city from its earliest days, with minimal crossover between the races. Sure, you could find the occasional mixed race party enjoying the music at Baker’s Keyboard Lounge and white teenagers dancing to the latest from Motown, but it was underpinned by a distrust that occasionally broke into the open. But it was the riot of 1967 that tore the city from its moorings and put government squarely in control of the city’s destiny. A white power structure unwilling and unable to control a restive minority population with Bull Connor tactics sparked a bloody civil war when it raided a blind pig (what many outside of Detroit call a “speakeasy,” or illegal saloon) one hot night in the summer of 1967. Before long, the National Guard was patrolling the city’s streets, gasoline sales were suspended from 6:00 p.m., and television screens were filled with pictures of armed Guardsmen and stores and homes alight against the darkness of the summer sky. “Molotov cocktail” became part of the lexicon, and those with relatives far outside the city’s borders decamped from the city while they hoped their houses and cars and possessions would be spared.
Detroit didn’t die that July night, or during the ones that followed. Wounded though it was, it would recover. The strong sales of domestic cars and trucks, and the growing size of the Baby Boom population would see to that. There was a market for what Detroit had on offer. Over time, the wounds would heal over, though the scars would remain, and life would go on.
Except that Jerry Cavanaugh, the Democrat mayor of the city and friend of the Kennedy-Johnson administration, pushed hard to make Detroit a poster child for the New Society. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) stepped in with both feet to “correct” the housing situation by funding a myriad of projects throughout the city. One in particular, Herman Gardens, became an eyesore in the intervening years, and was refurbished by administrations both Democrat and Republican as the tenant, who had no ownership stake in the sprawling row-house villa, destroyed the gift they had been given. In the 1980s, if memory serves, the units were rebuilt, with central air conditioning no less, but it didn’t take long before some renters decided that the walls needed to be crudely knocked down in order to help the cool air flow from room to room, or to make it possible to see the television from the kitchen. Today, Herman Gardens is fenced off, and the row houses have been destroyed. The ground has been leveled, and the view from Joy Road or the Southfield freeway is one of desolation. But fear not! Signs abound describing how the Feds once again—not having learned their lesson the first two times—will rebuild the site bigger and better than ever, even though the underlying problems that led to this situation remain. If that is not the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over in hope of a different outcome, then it certainly is a sign of mental illness.
As a microcosm for the rest of the city and, unfortunately, the region, Herman Gardens wasn’t as much a victim of racism as it was of a lack of opportunity and tough love. It was made worse by a former mayor (Coleman A. Young, let’s call the miscreant by nam) who screwed his people over in a vendetta against the predominately white suburbs, and made the populace proud that – even though they were the ones to suffer – one of theirs was “Sticking it to the Man.” Young, who beat the former white chief of police, John Nichols, for the top job, told criminals to “Hit Eight Mile Road,” a reference to the city’s border with the suburbs—a veiled threat to whites. As the Mother Fucker In Charge (Young’s self-description), he did not work to redress the wrongs of the past, but threw buckets of fuel on the fire, and instigated a crony politicalism more deserving of Zimbabwe than the upper Midwest. Aided and abetted by white liberals eager to pay whatever price for peace—a response to Detroit’s past when neighborhoods were physically separated by walls and fences, and suburbs actively kept blacks from moving in—he took advantage of their myopia and guilt, and paraded each capitulation as a victory over white overlords to his subjects when binding the wounds and extending a hand would have been much more effective.
Had Young, known locally as Mayor Mushmouth for his unique speaking style, taken a Rudy Giuliani-like stance and prosecuted those who broke windows rather than waiting until they stepped up to even greater crimes, the city might have had a chance. But true success would have meant taking on the unions (Teacher’s, Teamsters, United Auto Workers) and demanding value for money. But he didn’t. Instead he did what every Democrat politician before or since has done: he turned a blind eye toward their increasing ineffectiveness in return for their financial support. This unholy alliance, which extends to the state capitol in Lansing and includes, much like Obama and Rev. Wright, more than a few local church leaders, made it impossible to demand accountability or to rein-in government spending. Young’s legacy has given Detroit a bankrupt school system with one of the highest drop-out rates in the country, a structural debt of approximately $300 million, a spiraling crime rate (black-on-black in the vast majority of cases), and a police force that cannot solve 70% of the murders within the city. Yet, ask the bulk of the population—Detroit is a majority black city and has been for years—and they will tell you that, despite his excesses and corruption, Coleman A. Young was one of the best mayors ever to govern. Perhaps they believe that Young’s final campaign slogan, “Power for Tomorrow,” really will come true, despite the sorry state of affairs. Or perhaps they forget that Devil’s Night, which occurs prior to Halloween and results in a city-wide curfew to prevent a repetition of the three-night spree when 800 houses were burnt to the ground, is a legacy of his time in office. It had never occurred to this extent before he took control.
This legacy is one reason why the Detroit metropolitan area and Michigan remain segregated. Myopic politicians refuse to work together – look no farther than the open warfare surrounding the plan to put Cobo Hall under the control of a regional authority, a plan temporarily scuttled by city council president (now convicted felon) Monica (wife of John) Conyers. Instead they fight for short-term advantage rather than long-term sustainable gain. It is exacerbated by unions that demand more than they deliver in return, and who stifle entrepreneurship at every chance. The city and state know of no other way to govern than to raise taxes and promise more services, while driving toward a budget meltdown. Federal environmental law demands greenfield cleanups of former manufacturing sites, driving companies that might consider building anew on a so-called brownfield site the incentive to move out of the city, and take opportunity with them. Despite sex education, out of wedlock births have reached third-world proportions in the black community and are rising in the white, driven by government programs designed to help those who find themselves in trouble. The destruction of the black family structure, it could be claimed, began in Detroit in those heady New Society years of the Johnson administration, and were arrested only when state and federal welfare laws were revised. Despite this, the Obama administration and the Democrat leadership want to repeal welfare reform and re-enslave the underclass as permanent wards of the state.
It’s not a pretty picture, nor is it one totally bereft of hope. However, it will take a miracle, and honest to God intervention by the Almighty, to straighten out the mess that has arisen over the past 42 years. Kwame Kilpatrick is gone and with him his text-messaging retinue of scofflaws and felons, but the former NBA great, businessman and new mayor, Dave Bing, can’t clean it up on his own. Maybe the people of the city will stop voting to stick it to whitey, and begin cleaning up the corruption that has destroyed what was once a great city. Maybe they will learn that losing gems like the Detroit Zoo (oddly enough located in the suburbs, though it was run by the city) and Cobo Hall is the price you pay for incompetence, theft, greed and not a takeover by the “White Power Structure.” So too may they understand that the city, like GM, needs to be put under regional control, perhaps even broken up in a city-sized version of Scumpeter’s creative destruction. There are designers at the automakers who have offered to redesign the city for a new future, but nobody is willing to listen. I cannot see anyone in Washington or Lansing rolling back the rules and regulations that have prevented Detroit and the region from moving forward—those greenfield regs would be a great place to start—or force the UAW and other unions to sit down, shut up, and put the interests of their members before their own, but I’m not holding my breath. Nor do I expect those inside and surrounding the Obama administration, who have already proven adept at playing the race card at every slight, whether real or imagined, to be any different. “Yo, Prez. Whatup?” indeed.
If you wish to see what your future holds, America, look no farther than Detroit.
Watch this video. Joker was stroking the ball in Hawaii for three days after this failed “man-made disaster” took place in Detroit. (Ironic, huh? Because inner city Detroit IS a man-made disaster, made by the Johnson Administration and all the other do-gooders.) Do you feel safe knowing these clowns are in charge? And one of the Democrat Marxists had the nerve to suggest that the CIA deliberately let this happen to embarrass the Joker.
“Yo, Prez. Whattup?”
It’s the latest greeting in the black community. One that didn’t exist before Barack Obama ascended to deity status and the Oval Office. One side benefit of BO’s election could be a reduction, if not elimination, of the young black men and women given the name “Prince” or “King” or “Queen” or “Princess” as though these names would confer a status upon the possessor they might otherwise not achieve.
It’s damned frustrating to watch as a person who lived through the 1967 riots that tore Detroit apart, and ushered in an era of government-directed rebuilding that papered over the wounds and led to the even greater decline the city has suffered since. If you want to know what the future of the United States looks like under the current Progressive regime—both Democrat and Republican—look no farther than Detroit, for its current foundation has been built upon a virulent mixture of paranoia, victimhood and racism that pits city against suburb and has driven the populace away.
Once the country’s fourth largest city, Detroit has slipped to 11th, and will fall farther should the next census be even close to above board. Abandoned homes and buildings scar the skyline, and broad areas are open to the point that deer herds can be seen running (Local joke: “They want out of Detroit, too.”) should your plane be redirected on the long stack-up route that takes you out over the Detroit River on your way into Metropolitan Airport. This state of affairs pre-dates the collapse of the domestic auto industry, and has its roots in the days when Detroit was the wood-burning stove capital of the world. An industrial city, Detroit attracted immigrants from every corner of the globe, including a black population with fresh memories of Jim Crow laws in the South. This population grew exponentially when the auto industry opened the floodgates for unskilled labor.
Detroit has been a segregated city from its earliest days, with minimal crossover between the races. Sure, you could find the occasional mixed race party enjoying the music at Baker’s Keyboard Lounge and white teenagers dancing to the latest from Motown, but it was underpinned by a distrust that occasionally broke into the open. But it was the riot of 1967 that tore the city from its moorings and put government squarely in control of the city’s destiny. A white power structure unwilling and unable to control a restive minority population with Bull Connor tactics sparked a bloody civil war when it raided a blind pig (what many outside of Detroit call a “speakeasy,” or illegal saloon) one hot night in the summer of 1967. Before long, the National Guard was patrolling the city’s streets, gasoline sales were suspended from 6:00 p.m., and television screens were filled with pictures of armed Guardsmen and stores and homes alight against the darkness of the summer sky. “Molotov cocktail” became part of the lexicon, and those with relatives far outside the city’s borders decamped from the city while they hoped their houses and cars and possessions would be spared.
Detroit didn’t die that July night, or during the ones that followed. Wounded though it was, it would recover. The strong sales of domestic cars and trucks, and the growing size of the Baby Boom population would see to that. There was a market for what Detroit had on offer. Over time, the wounds would heal over, though the scars would remain, and life would go on.
Except that Jerry Cavanaugh, the Democrat mayor of the city and friend of the Kennedy-Johnson administration, pushed hard to make Detroit a poster child for the New Society. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) stepped in with both feet to “correct” the housing situation by funding a myriad of projects throughout the city. One in particular, Herman Gardens, became an eyesore in the intervening years, and was refurbished by administrations both Democrat and Republican as the tenant, who had no ownership stake in the sprawling row-house villa, destroyed the gift they had been given. In the 1980s, if memory serves, the units were rebuilt, with central air conditioning no less, but it didn’t take long before some renters decided that the walls needed to be crudely knocked down in order to help the cool air flow from room to room, or to make it possible to see the television from the kitchen. Today, Herman Gardens is fenced off, and the row houses have been destroyed. The ground has been leveled, and the view from Joy Road or the Southfield freeway is one of desolation. But fear not! Signs abound describing how the Feds once again—not having learned their lesson the first two times—will rebuild the site bigger and better than ever, even though the underlying problems that led to this situation remain. If that is not the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over in hope of a different outcome, then it certainly is a sign of mental illness.
As a microcosm for the rest of the city and, unfortunately, the region, Herman Gardens wasn’t as much a victim of racism as it was of a lack of opportunity and tough love. It was made worse by a former mayor (Coleman A. Young, let’s call the miscreant by nam) who screwed his people over in a vendetta against the predominately white suburbs, and made the populace proud that – even though they were the ones to suffer – one of theirs was “Sticking it to the Man.” Young, who beat the former white chief of police, John Nichols, for the top job, told criminals to “Hit Eight Mile Road,” a reference to the city’s border with the suburbs—a veiled threat to whites. As the Mother Fucker In Charge (Young’s self-description), he did not work to redress the wrongs of the past, but threw buckets of fuel on the fire, and instigated a crony politicalism more deserving of Zimbabwe than the upper Midwest. Aided and abetted by white liberals eager to pay whatever price for peace—a response to Detroit’s past when neighborhoods were physically separated by walls and fences, and suburbs actively kept blacks from moving in—he took advantage of their myopia and guilt, and paraded each capitulation as a victory over white overlords to his subjects when binding the wounds and extending a hand would have been much more effective.
Had Young, known locally as Mayor Mushmouth for his unique speaking style, taken a Rudy Giuliani-like stance and prosecuted those who broke windows rather than waiting until they stepped up to even greater crimes, the city might have had a chance. But true success would have meant taking on the unions (Teacher’s, Teamsters, United Auto Workers) and demanding value for money. But he didn’t. Instead he did what every Democrat politician before or since has done: he turned a blind eye toward their increasing ineffectiveness in return for their financial support. This unholy alliance, which extends to the state capitol in Lansing and includes, much like Obama and Rev. Wright, more than a few local church leaders, made it impossible to demand accountability or to rein-in government spending. Young’s legacy has given Detroit a bankrupt school system with one of the highest drop-out rates in the country, a structural debt of approximately $300 million, a spiraling crime rate (black-on-black in the vast majority of cases), and a police force that cannot solve 70% of the murders within the city. Yet, ask the bulk of the population—Detroit is a majority black city and has been for years—and they will tell you that, despite his excesses and corruption, Coleman A. Young was one of the best mayors ever to govern. Perhaps they believe that Young’s final campaign slogan, “Power for Tomorrow,” really will come true, despite the sorry state of affairs. Or perhaps they forget that Devil’s Night, which occurs prior to Halloween and results in a city-wide curfew to prevent a repetition of the three-night spree when 800 houses were burnt to the ground, is a legacy of his time in office. It had never occurred to this extent before he took control.
This legacy is one reason why the Detroit metropolitan area and Michigan remain segregated. Myopic politicians refuse to work together – look no farther than the open warfare surrounding the plan to put Cobo Hall under the control of a regional authority, a plan temporarily scuttled by city council president (now convicted felon) Monica (wife of John) Conyers. Instead they fight for short-term advantage rather than long-term sustainable gain. It is exacerbated by unions that demand more than they deliver in return, and who stifle entrepreneurship at every chance. The city and state know of no other way to govern than to raise taxes and promise more services, while driving toward a budget meltdown. Federal environmental law demands greenfield cleanups of former manufacturing sites, driving companies that might consider building anew on a so-called brownfield site the incentive to move out of the city, and take opportunity with them. Despite sex education, out of wedlock births have reached third-world proportions in the black community and are rising in the white, driven by government programs designed to help those who find themselves in trouble. The destruction of the black family structure, it could be claimed, began in Detroit in those heady New Society years of the Johnson administration, and were arrested only when state and federal welfare laws were revised. Despite this, the Obama administration and the Democrat leadership want to repeal welfare reform and re-enslave the underclass as permanent wards of the state.
It’s not a pretty picture, nor is it one totally bereft of hope. However, it will take a miracle, and honest to God intervention by the Almighty, to straighten out the mess that has arisen over the past 42 years. Kwame Kilpatrick is gone and with him his text-messaging retinue of scofflaws and felons, but the former NBA great, businessman and new mayor, Dave Bing, can’t clean it up on his own. Maybe the people of the city will stop voting to stick it to whitey, and begin cleaning up the corruption that has destroyed what was once a great city. Maybe they will learn that losing gems like the Detroit Zoo (oddly enough located in the suburbs, though it was run by the city) and Cobo Hall is the price you pay for incompetence, theft, greed and not a takeover by the “White Power Structure.” So too may they understand that the city, like GM, needs to be put under regional control, perhaps even broken up in a city-sized version of Scumpeter’s creative destruction. There are designers at the automakers who have offered to redesign the city for a new future, but nobody is willing to listen. I cannot see anyone in Washington or Lansing rolling back the rules and regulations that have prevented Detroit and the region from moving forward—those greenfield regs would be a great place to start—or force the UAW and other unions to sit down, shut up, and put the interests of their members before their own, but I’m not holding my breath. Nor do I expect those inside and surrounding the Obama administration, who have already proven adept at playing the race card at every slight, whether real or imagined, to be any different. “Yo, Prez. Whatup?” indeed.
If you wish to see what your future holds, America, look no farther than Detroit.
This came from Dyno King, who lives where they’re shutting Detroit down.
Take a look. Follow the link.
- Cap and Trade, which will make energy much more expensive, make Al Gore rich, and function as a tax across our entire economy.
- ObamaCare, which could have a down payment of $1.6 trillion, and still will not provide universal coverage, but it will lead to a government system competing against insurance companies, the intent of which is to put private companies out of business in a matter of a few years. Smaller, smarter changes to the existing system will serve better. Please see the links a few posts down to a Wall Street Journal piece by Karl Rove.
- Stimulus spending. This puts us in the hole for decades, for generations to come. Borrowing is so high that the Fed has to buy its own debt. The rise in interests is now stifling the housing market. The economy is still sick, but it’s not getting much worse, and that’s without all Obama’s spending. We don’t need to spend all that money.
- Seizure of private industry and private wealth. GM and Chrysler are trapped. Who’s next on the list to be run down and destroyed?
- Trillion-dollar deals made with General Electric on medical equipment and windmills. Is this open, fair and honest?
It’s not change I can believe in.
This is a well-done piece by Newt Gingrich, and is spot-on accurate.
Last week, Fritz Henderson, the newest leader of the Evil Manufacturing Empire (GM) was addressing the govt’s Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. He politely and properly answered every query, and was wholly the professional business exec he should have been, in such a situation. I can’t tell you if he’s any smarter/better equipped to run GM than Rick Wagoner was, but at least he’s a face that hasn’t yet been shit on by our government. How long that lasts is anyone’s guess.
So, extant from all the things he HAD TO say, here’s my take on what he WANTED to say:
1. Hey, guess what? Detroit HAS been building vehicles the American public wants. Americans generally want big vehicles: SUVs, powerful full-size pickups, et. al., that get the job done for them, are easy to maintain, and are reasonably priced. I guarantee that not once has a group of American car engineers sat around the drawing board and said: “Let’s see if we can build a shitty car that no one wants to buy.” But, if you’re our gov’t, that’s pretty much how you think it went down. Yeah, GM, Ford and Chrysler are run by dumbshits, while Toyota, Nissan and the rest are all Rhodes Scholars. Riiiiight… BTW: Chrysler’s Vice Chairman and President, Jim Press, was previously the highest-ranking American in the huge Toyota global machine.
2. Oh, also by the way, American media have it wrong again…reporting that GM has been one of the largest companies in the country. How about THE LARGEST and most profitable corporation in the world—for decades. GM in the 1960s had nearly 50% market share in North America. The best-selling car for much of the ‘70s was the Oldsmobile Cutlass, a car that hundreds of thousands of Americans a year chose to buy. So, should the gov’t mandate GM to retool for a ’76 Cutlass again? Nothing would surprise me.
3. No thinking person really wants an electric car, given the current state of battery technology. 45 miles in a Chevy Volt before you have to find a pre-wired safe harbor for a multiple-hour recharge? During the typical American’s daily commute, that wouldn’t make for a round trip. Yeah, that’s efficient. Plus, if you run out of go-juice you can’t just walk to the corner station and buy a gallon of electricity. And dont overlook that nasty little question about the replacement cost of the battery packs. Once the subsidies have gone away, then what? Or are they perennially subsidized? Doesn’t that kind of defeat the purpose?
4. And who’s producing all that wonderful electricity anyway? Uh-huh…coal plants, some hydro, or (for shame!) nuclear. For some warped reason, it’s okay for Obama to laud the Iranian crazyman for supposedly developing nuclear powerplant technology (i.e. fissionable bomb material) even though Iran sits on an ocean of crude. But, here in our country, the idea of building any more nuke plants is more distasteful to the liberals than a mouthful of Reagan’s denture grip. WTF?
5. Give American car companies a true level playing field and we’ll do just fine. Un-hamstring us from the UAW contracts and strong-armed legacy costs, relax the ridiculous CAFÉ regs, and let us run with the ball. Even with the approximately $1500 advantage per car the Japanese manufacturers have, we can at least have a fighting chance.
6. Let’s not forget history. After WWII, American money helped Japan rebuild its manufacturing industries. That gave the Japanese literally a multiple-decade advantage over our manufacturing (take steel, as a for instance) plants which were mostly built in the early 1900s. Ford’s Rouge auto plant dates back the Model T for heaven’s sake. So the Japanese got a huge leg up (thank you, Uncle Sam) and we’re still paying the price for it. Want a statistic? The United States occupation of Japan (1945-52) resulted in the rebuilding of the nation and the creation of a democratic state. United States assistance totaled about US$1.9 billion during the occupation, or about 15 percent of the nation’s imports and 4 percent of GNP in that period.
7. If our gov’t is so enamored of high mpg vehicles, why don’t they buy some new cars for Obama and crew? Sure, trade in that fuel-swilling Caddy limo (actually, it’s a completely custom fabricated heavily armored sedan shape on top of what is probably a 1-ton GM pickup platform, with the requisite Cadillac grille and taillights glued on) for a Chevy Volt or two. And what about all those Chevy Tahoe and Suburban SUVs that cart around the Secret Service at about 9 mpg? Certainly, a fleet of Malibus or minivans would be a greener solution. Get right on that, guys.
8. Obama says he doesn’t want the gov’t to tell GM what types of cars to build. Yeah right. How long before the anti-green Corvette and Camaro are done away with permanently? How many months before big dually pickups are castigated as evil? Don’t laugh, it could happen.
9. To recap: General Motors management isn’t the greedy, corrupt, stupid, lazy people the gov’t makes us out as. That’s a more accurate assessment of Washington’s own manpower. How many businesses have any of them ever run? (Well, I guess Al Gore’s been doing okay with his “greenmail” ethics. Increasing his fortune from about $2 million to an estimated $100 million in just eight years isn’t a bad return on one’s insipid blathering.)
10. As I said to the gov’t committee: Initially, the New GM will be owned primarily by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the governments of Canada and Ontario, the UAW’s post retirement healthcare VEBA trust, and the unsecured creditors, largely the bondholders, of the old General Motors. Now, I’m just praying that Obama and his goons don’t completely rape the American car business to the point of irreparable collapse before the 2010 and 2012 elections. If they do, then Lord help us all.
More Links About Partisan Attacks On Chrysler Dealers Who Contributed To GOP
Author: Mr BlackMr. Red sent these links.
http://www.redcounty.com/obama-closed-and-stole-republican-car-dealerships
http://www.businessinsider.com/internet-trying-to-figure-out-if-chrysler-dealerships-were-politically-motivated-2009-5
To quickly review the situation, I took all dealer owners whose names appeared more than once in the list. And, of those who contributed to political campaigns, every single one had donated almost exclusively to GOP candidates. While this isn’t an exhaustive review, it does have some ominous implications if it can be verified.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/05/did_chrysler_play_politics_wit.html
Mr. Red sent this in. Disgusting. Obama is dumping only Republican-owned dealerships in the Chapter 11 reorg of Chrysler. Strip away wealth, destroy those who oppose you. The Kenyan Tyrant is a piece of filth. I’d expect this in Zimbabwe or Kenya or some other African hellhole. But not in America. This is the formation of a dictatorship.
