Yes it is kind of old news, but I bet you never heard about it, because they control both Houses, but wait till after midterm.

For the foreseeable future, Chrysler will be on the federal dole, both directly and indirectly. The Obama-Rattner plan puts UAW in charge of Chrysler, which is good news for the Democratic Party.

UAW's political action committee spent $13.1 million last election cycle, a slow year for the union's political arm. Of the PAC's $2.3 million in direct contributions to candidates and candidate PACs, more than 99 percent went to Democrats. Of 42 Senate candidates to get UAW money, only one was Republican, and that was Arlen Specter.

The union's PAC also reported $4.5 million in independent expenditures supporting Obama, plus an additional $423,000 opposing John McCain.

So, here's the arrangement: You pay your taxes, the Obama administration funnels some of the money to Chrysler, whose profits enrich the UAW, which in turn funds Obama's re-election.

Predictability, precedent and the rule of law have been replaced with the fiat of politicians. Chrysler could become a pass-through entity from taxpayers to the Democratic Party. And in charge of it all is a Democratic fundraiser. Boss Tweed would be proud.


Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-auto-policy-All-in-the-Democratic-family-44414452.html#ixzz10wf2aRPT

As if we expected liberal to help themselves....

Quote from: Cryptic Bert on September 29, 2010, 08:26:59 PM
As if we expected liberal to help themselves....

They help themselves alright, to our money.
But it gets even worse.
From an email.

The feds organized their "Automotive Task Force" to fix Chrysler and GM. Obama, in an act that is 100% unconstitutional, appointed a guy named Steve Rattner to be the White House's official Car Czar - literally, that's what his title is.  Rattner is the liaison among Obama, Chrysler, and GM.

Initially, the national media reported that Chrysler 'had made this list of dealerships.'  Not true!  The Washington Examiner, Newsmax, Fox News and a host of other news agencies discovered that the list of dealerships was put together by the "Automotive Task Force" headed by no one other than Mr. Steve Rattner.

Now the plot thickens.  Remember earlier we said that there was neither rhyme nor reason why certain dealerships were closed?

Actually there's a very interesting pattern as to who was closed down.  Again, on May 27, 2009, The Washington Examiner and Newsmax exposed the connection.   Amazingly, of the 789 dealerships closed by the federal government, 788 had donated money, exclusively to Republican political causes, while contributing nothing to Democratic political causes.  The only "Democratic" dealership on the list was found to have donated $7,700 to Hillary's campaign, and a bit over $2,000 to John Edwards. This same dealership, reportedly, also gave $200.00 to Obama's campaign.
Does that seem a little odd to you?

Steve Rattner is the guy who put the list together.  Well, he happens to be married to a Maureen White.

Maureen happens to be the former national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee.  As such, she has access to campaign donation records from everyone in the nation-Republican or Democrat.  But of course, this is just a wacky "coincidence," we're certain.

Then comes another really wacky "coincidence."  On that list of dealerships being closed down, a weird thing happened in Arkansas, North Louisiana and Southern Missouri.  It seems that Bill Clinton's former White House Chief of Staff, Mack McClarty, owns a chain of dealerships in that region, partnered with a fellow by the name of Robert Johnson.  Johnson happ ens to be founder of Black Entertainment Television and was a huge Obama supporter and financier.

These guys own a half dozen Chrysler stores under the company title of RLJ-McClarty-Landers. Interestingly, none of their dealerships were ordered closed - not one!

While all of their competing Chrysler/Dodge and Jeep dealership were!  Eight dealerships located near the dealerships owned by McClarty and Johnson were ordered shut down.

Thus by pure luck, these two major Obama supporters now have virtual monopoly on Chrysler sales in their zone.  Isn't that amazing?

Go look in The Washington Examiner, the story's there, and it's in a dozen or so other web-based news organizations; this isn't being made up.

Now if you thought Chrysler was owned by Fiat, you are mistaken.  Under the federal court ruling, 65% of Chrysler is now owned by the federal government and the United Auto Workers union!  Fiat owns 20%.  The other 15% is still privately owned and presumably will be traded on the stock market.  Obama smiles and says he doesn't want to run the auto industry.

As horrifying as this is to comprehend, and being as how this used to be the United States of America, it would appear that the president has the power to destroy private businesses and eliminate upward of 100,000 jobs just because they don't agree with his political agenda.

There are voices in Washington demanding an explanation, but the "Automotive Task Force" has released no information to the public or to any of the senators demanding answers for what has been done.

This actually makes me sick how all of this was manipulated.  Explains why long time Dodge dealerships disappeared and were replaced with a new dealership whose name I have never seen before.  This may bear some research on my part. :o :o :o :o

This seems to be this administration's idea of free enterprise and capitalism; shut down the competition.

The fact that they could address the expiring bush tax cuts or even set a budget while somehow having time for a million and one liberal passion projects.....as the economy burned and people suffered is nothing less than gross negligence.

Did you mean they "couldn't" address the expiring Bush tax cuts or have I missed something else?

Yes ma'am. That's what I meant to say. Thank you for the correction. I was typing on my I Phone this morning and it's hard to see enough of the text to proof read when on my I phone.

Quote from: crepe05 on September 30, 2010, 03:12:29 AM
This seems to be this administration's idea of free enterprise and capitalism; shut down the competition.

OUCH!!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D
Sadly, you're correct, the left could never survive on a level playing field.