General Motors: Fantasy and Reality

by Maynard on May 14, 2010

A post by Maynard

Here’s the advertisement GM is running:

Some wag has redubbed it:

You decide which version conveys a more accurate perception of reality.

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  1. RuBegonia says:
    May 14, 2010 at 20:18

    WOOF that SPOOF – thanks Maynard. A lesson and a laugh.

  2. BeforeGoreKneel says:
    May 14, 2010 at 22:11

    Gonna add that one to a clip and save folder, no way is that going to be up past Monday.

  3. thierry says:
    May 15, 2010 at 05:05

    what few people ever realize or at least opt to comment on is GM has been a company forever on the brink of failure since it’s inception, right about the same time Ford came out with the model T. the guy who started it william crapo( not a typo. no comment) durant was a profligate spender/buyer upper and a flexible but stunningly poor manager. it was known as a company that operated in complete chaos with no cost controls and random ill thought out changes in direction. in 2 years his company was bankrupt due to his poor business choices and weird flighty spending habits. he did such things as losing his whole fortune buying his own stock to keep it out of the toilet. banks were forever bailing him out- because he was ‘ too big to fail’- he was forced out of his own company several times in this manner. a guy named sloan took over and they eventually righted themselves.

    it’s credit for car ownership, started by GM( the GMAC), that ushered in out modern age of mass finance which our economy teeters upon to this day. before they started offering credit for car purchases the only thing respectable people bought on credit was a home. the 1920s and the industrial revolution- modernization of mass production – and the creation of widespread consumer credit- gave us our modern world . it also gave rise to the eventual acceptance of the communist streak in progressives. at least then this new economy was indeed new-a transition from the victorian and steam age. only then people like hoover, a republican, were loathe to have federal government too involved with making or breaking or managing the economy because it had no constitutional mandate to do so. then came the new deal democrats to ‘the rescue’. and here we are- wallowing in failed policy with now extra government padding that’s wearing thin.

    the depression was only ended however not by the federal government but by world war 2. and we’ve still learned by bailing GM out and all urkel’s smoke and financial mirrors nothing from the decades of flux and pure misery this country under went. GM represents every thing that’s wrong with capitalism and democracy being forced to run on communistic values of ‘ seizing the means of production’ by the government which amounts to rewarding failure, punishing success. it has never worked- communism can only be founded in tyranny not a democracy. you can’t have both and a free healthy market . america did not become one of the wealthiest most stable nations through destruction of the free market and tax payer support of mismanaged failure.

  4. Pat_S says:
    May 15, 2010 at 06:54

    Detroit’s demise is a metaphor for what’s happening to the country. A city built upon ingenuity and innovation made possible through Capitalism, crumbled under mismanagement, corruption and destructive economic policies. A metaphor right to the end, the vacant buildings in Detroit will be demolished using stimulus funds. The Washington Post makes it sound like a wonderful thing.

    Project to demolish 450 houses starts in Detroit

    The war on vacant houses in Detroit took on new force Tuesday as officials announced plans to demolish about 450 of the most dangerous structures within the next two months, and immediately tore into the first home on the list.

    The city is under attack by dangerous houses. It’s war! Those houses must be stopped. The malicious, criminal, degenerate houses give sanctuary to illegal drug and weapons operations.

    “It’s part of the rebirth we are going through,” County Executive Robert Ficano said, surrounded by other local officials and a dozen religious leaders. “These are havens for drugs and other things.”

    Detroit’s mayor wants to tear down 10,000 vacant houses over the next four years and, with them, evict the illegal drug and weapons operations that often move in after residents move out.

    The house targeted Tuesday is among several dilapidated structures along a street dotted with vacant, weedy lots, and demolition work is expected to resume later this week. The county’s project is funded through federal stimulus money.

    Yippee! This is so wonderful. Thank goodness the auto industry collapsed and the city decayed.

    “We can’t create new things unless the old has gone away,” said the Rev. Edgar Vann, pastor of Second Ebenezer Church. “It’s a real victory for the community. Now, we see a real opportunity here and leadership.”

    The Detroit motto is “Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus”– “We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes”. Get ready America. The change Obama and his leftist cronies hope for is coming your way. We will be told to love our downfall. The sooner the better. Do you hear us George Orwell?

    • Chuck says:
      May 15, 2010 at 09:36

      Among the houses is Romney’s childhood home in Palmer Woods. Palmer Woods is one of the neighborhoods in Detroit with grand Tudor-style homes, large lawns, amidst beautiful tree-lined streets. Unfortunately, property crime, and high property taxes drive people away from neighborhoods like this. As an example, a Palmer Woods homeowner cited on their website (www.palmerwoods.org) says “I often work late and come home after dark. I call our private security patrol officer. He meets me in my driveway and escorts me to the door. Living in a safe neighborhood with low crime and security patrolling everyday is important to me.” Now, would you want to live in a place where you need to be escorted from your driveway to your front door????

      Buyers won’t invest in Detroit and go north to other much safer neighborhoods (Birmingham, Royal Oak, suburbs), where you can get a nice house and get better schools, less taxes, etc. It’s not worth it and a real shame.

    • Maynard says:
      May 15, 2010 at 20:16

      The “cash for clunkers” borrowed money from China to pay us to melt down our cars. Here they’re borrowing stimulus money from China to pay us to tear down our houses. The next generation will lack the infrastructure because we junked it, but they’ll still have the debt we took on to pay us to junk it. The primary function of the IRS will be to grab money and send it to China. If future generations ask why we’re impoverished, the answer will be, “Because the government paid us to beggar ourselves.”

  5. morecowbell says:
    May 15, 2010 at 09:08

    What’s a Wag ?

  6. animalfarm says:
    May 15, 2010 at 15:39

    Elephant in the room: the real cause of inner city crime. Ignoring it or blaming it on failing industries will not make it go away. So many hoped Obama would finally break the PC ice on this taboo subject and aggressively address it. White America is too cowardly to ‘judge’ inner city culture. Will Obama? Fat chance.

  7. Laura says:
    May 15, 2010 at 18:54

    I am so tired of seeing commercials that imply we are that stupid that we would actually believe what is being stated, another example is the commercial for Lovazo, a prescription containing fish oil, indicating that you cannot get it at a health food store, wrong!! What they really are stating is they cannot make a profit off of the one at the health food store! The fish oil in and of itself is the main ingredient to counteract the problem!

    Every single governmental agency and any connection to those agencies is infested with progressives running the entire show, and it is communism and tyranny, both of these commercials attack the private sector and deem to control and enslave the population thereby attempting to influence the population into falling for their objectives so they can profit and use us for their infinitive attempts in remaining in power

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