Car people are nothing, if not salesmen.
NO. It stands alone as a complete sentence.
Salesmen know how to take NO for an answer.
The three Super Salesmen who flew into Washington on private jets to cajole Congress for billions of dollars Gimme Money for Detroit should be told in no uncertain terms NO, NO and NO.
Roll the tape to hear Senator Corker (R-TN) ask about their overseas EXPANSION.
Yeah, well, that’s ’cause we’re making money overseas. Duh, explain the Automakers Extraordinaire.
Can’t you transfer the needed funds from your overseas Money Makers to your stateside Losers?
Yeah, well, we’re expecting those operations to be affected as the crisis Goes Global.
Ah, so they want ANTICIPATORY protection?
Us, too.
Many of our personal financial woes are expected to worsen in 2009.
By Detroit Logic, for those of us whose portfolios have already taken a 40% hit and who apprehend additional setbacks in 2009, the Government should either waive our tax bills or bail us out. We are gratified that Hank the Bank has learned what we already knew, that it will not much help us if he buys stock in our devalued assets. We, too, prefer straight cash infusions.
What the hell kind of way is this to run a business OR a country? If THIS is our Change, if THIS is our new direction then, by all means, run the country like Detroit…it practically guarantees Gridlock. Gridlock is hell, as a rule. But if the options that lie ahead are a multi-car pile-up or driving off a cliff, Gridlock is Grace.
It defies Reason that the only people in Washington who know what they’re doing are up to no good, but it also defies Reason to ignore evidence.
Defiers R Us.