December 4, 2008
Since my last column on the auto industry, much has changed. The CEO’s of the big three are attending hearings this week in Congress to convince lawmakers to give them billions of dollars. In fact, they are getting so desperate that all of the CEO’s drove the 500 miles from Detroit to Washington, D.C. in hybrid vehicles. This is a far cry from the private jets used a few weeks ago, which in response to Congressional and public ire, are now being…
Tags: Economy, unions
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November 19, 2008
Why is everybody so scared that the “Big 3” automakers will file Chapter 11 bankruptcy? The Democrats would like you to believe it is because allowing one of these companies to go down would create massive unemployment and economic catastrophe. Is that what happened to the airline industry after 9/11? Major carriers such as United, US Air, Delta and Northwest all filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. In fact…
Tags: Economy, unions
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December 23, 2008
…k, the final nail in the coffin of a free market, was hammered. President Bush decided to give our friends in Detroit approximately 17 Billion Dollars. Of course, there were many strings attached to this bailout. For one, the auto companies must prove they are competitive and on the road to profitability by the end of March. Secondly, the UAW must agree to substantial concessions; these include elimination of the jobs bank and acceptance of compa…
Tags: socialism
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March 30, 2009
…y and not necessarily for this column. Now, onto politics which is now and will always be my passion, besides making movies of course! It seems that President Obama finally did something right this morning. He told the United Auto Workers to: “take a long walk off a short pier.” Well, not in so many words, but in reality, that is what happened. I agree with this wholeheartedly. Although, the implications of the rest of his speech have more far re…
Tags: Auto Industry
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January 21, 2012
… seemed on the superficial level to offer continuity, it was actually an ideological reversal, back to the Liberal wing of the Republican Party. Though he lambasted his opponent Michael Dukakis, tarring him with the “Liberal” label, which Reaganism had turned into a dirty word, Bush himself was every bit a Progressive. His admitted trouble with “the vision thing” prevented him from continuing with Reagan’s unfinished work: shrinking government, e…
Tags: Compassionate conservatie, Debate, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, nomination, Rick Santorum, Ronald Reagan
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October 30, 2011
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
Tags: " "Dancing with the Stars, Chaz Bono, Fini Goodman, JR Martinez
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November 30, 2011
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
Tags: First Amendment, Religion, Separation of Church and State
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September 8, 2009
…bipartisan plan right now. As reported by Fox.com, the plan would include penalties for those who do not get insurance depending on income level and family size. It would also be the first mandatory plan in the same vein that Auto Insurance is mandatory in many states. However, it would not include a public option at all. In its place, the plan would include non-profit cooperatives (whatever the hell they are). If this plan addresses all of the…
Tags: socialism
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December 10, 2011
…the United States — (applause) — not just because it’s good for business, but because it’s good for the country that made their business and their personal success possible. (Applause.) I think about the Big Three auto companies who, during recent negotiations, agreed to create more jobs and cars here in America, and then decided to give bonuses not just to their executives, but to all their employees, so that everyone was invested in…
Tags: Andy Stern, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac., GE, General Motors, Kansas, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Remarks by the President on the Economy in Osawatomie, SEIU, Serious Materials, Solyndra, the tea party, unions
Posted in Craig Covello, Domestic Policy, Economy | 6 Comments »
May 27, 2009
…ankruptcy of GM and the second is about our current standing in foreign affairs. Specifically, what is going to be done about North Korea and Iran? As far back as November 19, 2009, I have been stating in this column that the auto industry bailout was a waste of taxpayer money. The inevitable was that both Chrysler and General Motors would be forced into Chapter 11 protection under the United States Bankruptcy Code. Well, I was right. Chrysler fi…
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