Posted by
Locutisprime on Friday, October 02, 2009 8:53:36 AM
U.S. September Auto Sales Plunge; GM, Chrysler Hit Hard
What was that clunk that hit the headlines yesterday? Must have been
the sound of the American auto industry clunking and crashing to the
ground (again). So, they are right back to where they were before the
federal bail out and the cash for clunkers program of the past few
months attempted to save them.
It was my opinion (and that of many others) from the beginning
(September of last year) that we should have allowed the auto makers to
file for bankruptcy and de-a s s the smothering union contracts that were
crippling and killing the American auto industry. But Obama and his
union supporting thugs were having nothing of that. Nor would our out
going president Bush before him. Bush seemed content to just let the
wreck of the American economy, coast silently into the next
administration, while he prepared for the blessed obscurity that he
longed for after the past eight years. (Thanks George).
Then once in office, Obama's rescue plan materialized. Spend billions
on bailouts and the buying up of GM and auctioning off Chrysler to
Fiat. Then create the cash for clunkers scheme and sell that to the
people as a viable alternative to reality. Actually, cash for clunkers
wasn't Obama's plan or his idea to begin with. The French and the
Germans had already implemented a similar program in Europe, months
before he ever debuted his plan here. And the European clunkers plan
ended in the exact same result as ours has.
A lot of government money propping up a sinking auto industry and a
forced perspective that changed absolutely nothing in the end. (What
was that about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a
different outcome?)
The only measurable result of any government sponsored forced
perspective, is that in the end the people have less money and the
problem remains unaltered and unchanged, only to become larger. These
programs cannot be maintained or sustained simply by spending the
people's money to create an alternative reality. (Money runs out
eventually and so does credit.)
Alternative realities are wonderful works of science fiction, but the
practical application of them by those engaged in relativist social
gerrymandering has never worked and it never will. Nature always seeks
it's own level of equilibrium just like water does. No matter how many
times man attempts to alter the natural order, given the time and the
opportunity, nature always returns things to as they were and seeks to
provide its own non imposed solutions for the dilemma.
Thus is the current reality and the coming epitaph of Obama's grand
scheme concerning the auto industry. The beauty part about capitalism,
is that left to it's own devices, it will follow the same course as
nature and water. It will find its own equilibrium. And having done so,
just like the Darwinist scheme of natural selection, only the strong
will survive. Which is as it should be.
Barack Obama hasn't saved the American auto industry, he has killed it.
And he killed it by refusing to allow it to right itself and suffer
through the throes of re-birthing itself into a new and viable
industry, after having shed these strangling unions. He killed it
because the disease that killed the American auto industry (union
labor) told him to do it. He had to do it, after all.....the unions got
him elected.
So now, the first month's numbers after the end of the cash for clunkers scam is in. And what do the statistics reveal?
"Sales for General Motors Co and Chrysler -- the two U.S. automakers
struggling to regain momentum after emerging from bankruptcy -- dropped
by 45 percent and 42 percent, respectively."
Which is precisely what the statistics will reveal in the months to
come, as 2009 closes out as one of the worst economic years on record.
The American economic egg (Humpty Dumpty) is broken. And all the king's
horses and all the king's men, can't put Humpty Dumpty back together
again.
Eggs (golden or otherwise) once broken must be discarded. Our time and
our effort (as a nation) needs to be invested in nurturing the goose
that lays our golden eggs, not in strangling the old bird and cursing
her over the eggs that we have broken. But our Fabian socialist "chef
in chief" remains hell bent on making his socialist souffle and selling
it to us as a banquet.
Marie Antoinette once served the people cake..... Meanwhile, our
illustrious leader is hell bent on selling us fluffed up broken and
rotten eggs.