U.S. occupies GM, establishes secure ‘Green Zone’

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U.S. occupies GM, establishes secure ‘Green Zone’

by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace · 3813Commentshttp://www.scrappleface.com/?p=38132009-06-12+11%3A48%3A45Scott+Ott · · Print This Story

The U.S. occupation of General Motors, following a ’shock and awe’ lightning-speed takeover, began this week with the appointment of a new provisional administrator, and establishment of a secure ‘Green Zone’ in the heart of Detroit.
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1 boberinyetagain // Jun 12, 2009 at 8:12 am

Detroit could use a green zone…Philly could too come to think of it.

Good one Scott
2 gafisher // Jun 12, 2009 at 8:19 am

Members of the local resistance movement, known in the dialect of the area as “Ottawarks,” have been found using “Improvised Earning Devices” such as mowing lawns, flipping burgers and panhandling in an effort to retake a traditionally-held region they call “the Middle Class.”
3 boberinyetagain // Jun 12, 2009 at 8:20 am

“They want the kind of safety and security that comes from knowing you’ll always have a job”

Unless you happen to be a dealer for them
4 boberinyetagain // Jun 12, 2009 at 8:22 am

gafisher…they’ll never make it…doomed I tell ya, doomed from the start. “Middle class” is an illusion we once embraced but…now just a memory
5 gafisher // Jun 12, 2009 at 8:39 am

Detroit is wrongly but perhaps best known for its gang-controlled ‘hoods.’ Unfortunately, thanks primarily to the efforts of Gov. “Generous Jennie” Granholm and Barry “King Tut” Obama the only ‘hood’ that’s been closed is the one called livelihood.
6 Newsman // Jun 12, 2009 at 9:49 am

GM all by itself is the sole cause of any loss of livelihood of its own employees.

Incompetence eventually catches up to its owner.

Hopefully, it can now change its ways and return to some of its former glory !

Incidentally one of the most modern and efficient auto plants on the planet is run by Ford in Brazil. Too bad the UAW blocks its emulation here in the US.
7 Darthmeister // Jun 12, 2009 at 12:09 pm

Green zone? The only thing “green” about the automobile industry zone is the hundreds of billions of inflationary greenbacks being run off the Treasury presses.

No segment of American industry did more than high tech to elect Barack Obama as President of the United States. The 2008 Obama campaign will go down in history as having made better use of digital technology than any before it. From a hugely powerful website to the reproduction of the “Hope” poster on thousands of Facebook pages to the President’s own ‘tweet’ on election night, Silicon Valley played a crucial role in the success of President Obama . . .and Silicon Valley naturally assumed that the new President would do the same in return.

It hasn’t quite turned out that way. . .

The first surprise to many Valleyites is how innately anti-entrepreneurial the new Administration has turned out to be. Candidate Obama looked like a high tech executive - smart, hip, a gadget freak - and he certainly talked pro-entrepreneur. But the reality of the last six months has been very different.

As libertarian Glenn Reynolds correctly noted: “Another bunch figures out who the rubes are.”

Stupid is is stupid does. Nothing like educated fools to ruin a country, eh?
8 Darthmeister // Jun 12, 2009 at 12:20 pm

Drats. Should read, “The only thing green about the automobile industry zone is the hundreds of billions being run off of Treasury presses TO PAY FOR THEIR BAILOUTS.”

BTW, the fact the UAW has pressured American automobile manufacturers for the last fifty years to pay exorbitantly inflated wages, create “safety nets” which pay idled workers for doing absolutely nothing for years on end, and feather the retirement beds with lavish retirement benefits by way of a labor union Ponzi scheme is the real problem.

Anyone that knows anything about running a business knows payroll and benefits are the biggest business expense and that market dynamic was essentially taken out of GM/Chrysler/Ford’s hands by the greedy UAW and braindead union workers who didn’t care one whit about the viability of the company they worked for or for future workers who will have to pay the price of bankruptcy, bailouts, and shutdowns.

BTW, I belong to a graphic communications union so I’ve earned the right to make this analysis.
9 boberinyetagain // Jun 12, 2009 at 12:30 pm

“graphic communications”?

pretty sure we don’t want to know…
10 R.A.M. // Jun 12, 2009 at 12:34 pm

I’m still trying to deal with the takeover and illegal occupation of the White House by a dictatorial foreigner that is bent on destroying America!

wv: redrafts Watergate Obama’s administration makes Watergate look like a parking violation!!!
11 boberinyetagain // Jun 12, 2009 at 12:51 pm

“a dictatorial foreigner that is bent on destroying America! ”

who would that be and how did they get past security?
12 gafisher // Jun 12, 2009 at 1:06 pm

Re#6: “GM all by itself is the sole cause of any loss of livelihood of its own employees.”
…
“Too bad the UAW blocks its emulation here in the US.”

What a bargain! Two views in one!

But neither GM nor the UAW can take the bows for hundreds of thousands of non-GM, non-UAW jobs lost as a result of Granholm’s anti-business policies and more immediately by Obama’s betrayal of hundreds of independent auto dealers.
13 RedPepper // Jun 12, 2009 at 2:51 pm

As I said earlier …

“Plus ça change, plus ç’est la même chose.”

Actually, it wasn’t me … it was Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr who said it.

I guess IntenseDebate didn’t cut it …

FWIW, Scott, the ~~old~~ present format seems fine to me … always did … just my 2¢s …

? But where are the trolls ? ?
? There ought to be trolls ! ?
14 RedPepper // Jun 12, 2009 at 2:56 pm

For that matter, where are the musical notes ?

Oh well …
15 boberinyetagain // Jun 12, 2009 at 3:22 pm

la, la, la…lala…

sorry, best musical interlude I could come up with on such short notice
16 Libby Gone // Jun 12, 2009 at 3:32 pm

gafisher #12,
AMEN! Jenny has been up to these tactics LONG before I ever heard of Ocrock Baramit! Michigan was already in bad shape.
17 Newsman // Jun 12, 2009 at 4:44 pm

I fully agree with every word of Darth’s comment on the UAW.

That stance of the UAW is precisely why Ford’s most advanced auto plant in Brazil cannot be built in the US.
18 camojack // Jun 12, 2009 at 5:07 pm

“It’s not easy being green.”
-Kermit D. Frog
19 Libby Gone // Jun 12, 2009 at 7:56 pm

The real answer is on Drudge right now! Obama and his minions are looking to bulldoze vast areas of Detroit, Flint, Memphis, and cities out east that have deteriorated, leaving the land return to countryside between the remaining urban enclaves. Scott u r psychic!
20 mindknumbed kid // Jun 12, 2009 at 8:31 pm

Whether it is a union leader or a politician speaking, remember what Jesus said in Matthew 26:11
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
21 mindknumbed kid // Jun 12, 2009 at 8:36 pm

re#18 - Time’s fun when you’re? having flies. - Kermit the Frog
22 mindknumbed kid // Jun 12, 2009 at 8:59 pm

I thought that kids were always gonna do it, no matter what we do to keep them from doing it…
“Historic anti-smoking bill aims at stopping teens” - (AP)
23 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 13, 2009 at 12:36 am

“I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” Ecclesiastes 1:14
24 gafisher // Jun 13, 2009 at 7:26 am

JL3 Re#23: Good commentary on solar and wind energy.
25 gafisher // Jun 13, 2009 at 7:43 am

mkk Re#22, Good point! Abstinence never works*. What’s needed is school classes teaching, and widespread media campaigns promoting, safe smoke.

Why, our own President could do the first big PSA!

* Except every time it’s tried.

wv - Groton infected - See! They should have practiced Safe Smoke!
26 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 13, 2009 at 10:33 am

This is just a random comment:
One of the things I don’t get from Matthew 26:11 is that Jesus, the Christ, was providing a schematic for a permanent subsection of humanity or some such class structure; such a “fate” was totally negated by The Choice presented to the disciples as He was anointed over yonder in Bethany just prior to His betrayal.

No one should be poor and neither should everyone else but stuff is always liable to happen since we’re not in Eden anymore.

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.
27 mindknumbed kid // Jun 13, 2009 at 6:48 pm

Not providing a schematic, but perhaps stating a truth. Not just that there will always be those on the lower end of the financial spectrum, but also that when the time of his physical presence on earth was complete, the poor would remain.

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