GM and Socialism

During March Madness, the NCAA Basketball tournament, there occurred another form of Madness. Over the weekend it was announced that the CEO of GM was going to be removed. Not at the hand of the board or even the shareholders, but at the hand of the government.

GM as you may recall took money from the federal government and as such the government owned GM much like a pusher owns an addict.

Some felt that this was no big deal others felt it was a very big deal. Of course the President made it sound like it was the best thing that could be done in order to make the automotive industry more secure. Such Orwellian chatter was becoming more common place.

People who thought this was a good move in a few months began to realize that the federal takeover of the private sector had begun that day in March.

It was hard for those opposed to the President to sound reasonable. Presidents always sound like they are in charge, that they are reasonable. They stand behind the Great Seal; a flag draped stage with great lightening. Others cannot compete with the setting, nor the aura that a President holds. Just ask Bobby Jindal. The message no longer mattered; we had begun to be a nation of citizens that viewed our politics like an episode of American Idol. We were not the judges, the talking heads of the media were the judges and the conservatives were being voted off every week. .

So the few people who stood up against the President sounded like they were crazed. Direct questions where thrust at them while the President made his statement and walked away. Those in disagreement stood no chance. Being bombarded with pointed questions made them sound far from main stream. Again the media had great influence over the way this act was portrayed.

Soon companies that really could use some federal funds to survive refused them out fear of being micromanaged by the Feds. It did not matter because soon the Feds were micromanaging numerous companies all across the land, companies that did not take any Fed funds. The madness was spreading like a plague and those opposed were labeled non-believing heretics.