Ok Goofy was already beserk.

Movies have been made — books have been written.

Now some politicians are going to cure the ills of the US auto industries by throwing US taxpayer money down the rat hole. (0zero’s use of “just words” Hope & Change — but recycle the same words aka “Czar”.)

When we needed to replace our trusty Toyota I did research using two criteria — reliability and fuel efficient. Honda Civic. I did more research — Honda Civic. No US cars were found in the top models.

Our last “built like a rock” Chevy truck — had the absolute worse quality control and workmanship on any vehicle — according to the mechanic who had to replace the engine block because of GROSS mis-drilling of the holes in the engine block. Once the engine block was exposed and naked — it took no special equipment to SEE that the engine block was never inspected. GM did nothing — and most of the guts of this truck had to be replaced because of GROSS lack of quality control. The left rear tire has blown (as in boom) 3 times — due to poor workmanship.

All three car companies should be allowed to go bankrupt — and then merged into one car company under the leadership of someone who knows how to run a successful car company — knows how to hire people to make good reliable, efficient vehicles.

No Czar — just bankruptcy. And I happen to know one of the Executive Officers for one of these car companies — a very nice man. But his company builds cars ready for the junk yard as soon as they roll of the assembly line.

Now, it’s “THE HOMELAND.”

It’s positively Hitlerite.

And, we call any head of a commission or a department or an investigation, “A CZAR!”

Ferchrissakes, doesn’t anyone out there take offense at this but us?

It’s godawful Orwell-Speak. You know, I sat and watched Orwell’s 1984 the other day. It’s fairly short, you can watch it on YouTube, and it’s chilling to see how much life these days resembles life in Orwell’s Oceana.

Give it a shot. For those who’ve invoked it, but never actually watched it, you’ll be amazed at how far down the road we’ve already traveled. Particularly in London.

Security at any cost has a price, ya know.

Nothing like living in a black and white world with no shades of grey. If only it was so simple.

How did you get this soapbox?

You may have gotten on this website because you may have been good at bashing and throwing mud at Obama, but you come up short when talking about economics and topics like the auto sector where you obviously do not have a clue.

All you are really saying is that you believe in small goverment and that the government should not help industries in this country at all, particularly the auto sector.

Such a profound statement from someone who really has no idea about what is going on in the global auto industry and why they are in the position they are currently in. And from someone who also seems to have no concept of what is really going on with the economy of this country right now and has any concept of how important the auto sector is or what its failure could mean to the economy.

Nobody likes the situation the auto sector is in, but to do nothing would be tragic and frankly makes no economic sense.

By the way the last time the government helped Chrysler they made money.

I am interested in knowing why you think bailing out the auto industry is not a good idea?

1) do you not think the U.S. should have an auto industry or the large manufacturing base that it provides?

2) do you think they can survive without a government bail-out?

3) do you not think government loans and/or an equity stake will not work?

4) do you think that lending money to the auto companies to get them through the current credit crisis is not the best means to help them? and say bankrupucy is a better alternative?

5) are you not worried about the larger implications to the broader economy?

6) do you think it is not a big problem that other countries are in the process of also bailing out their own auto sectors, so it is no big deal that the Big Three will be at a competitive disadvantage.

7) do you have no problem giving big money to financial institutions, but when it comes to a manufacturing base it is a different story, or maybe you do not think the financial institutions should have gotten money either, so you really do not care about the larger implications to the economy.

etc. etc. etc.

Your logic is also flawed given that you seem to imply that lending money to the U.S. auto sector is only a zero-sum game and there is absolutely no benefit to it.

If you are really going to comment on this highly complex topic you should be doing a cost-benefit analysis. What do you think it is going to cost the U.S. taxpayer if the auto sector is not granted a loan? What do you think the unemployment benefits costs alone are going to be? etc. etc. etc.

I didn’t think so.

Past behavior is a good indicator of future behavior.

Oh, so true! Based on that truism, why do we keep electing Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, etc? The good news is that Louisiana voters finally ousted William Jefferson, so maybe there is hope that other districts in the country will vote out the rest of the criminals in Congress.

Past behavior is a good indicator of future behavior.

SP – perhaps you can elucidate us as to why exactly the above article shows a lack of understanding of the subject of which it treats? In what way is it ridiculous? What are these “complex problems”? Do explain. How did you come to these conclusions?

Still waiting, eh?