Mitt Romney–Pander Bear
Mitt Romney holds himself out as a brilliant business consultant who helped turn many companies around and become profitable again. So here is his advice for the Detroit auto industry–Sue the Federal Government to stop the law that Bush signed two weeks ago to increase fuel efficiency. Now there is a brilliant piece of forward looking strategy. Even GM’s Rick Wagonner would have thrown Mitt out of the room for such bone-headed advice. When John McCain had the temerity to tell Michigan voters, that “some of the lost jobs are not coming back” , Mitt pounced with his pandering government bailout talk:
Romney also pledged to ease fuel-efficiency standards and to spend billions of dollars in federal money to bolster automakers. “This is personal to me,” he told crowds.
[...] Jon Taplin’s Blog wrote an interesting post today on Mitt Romney-Pander BearHere’s a quick excerptMitt Romney holds himself out as a brilliant business consultant who helped turn many companies around and become profitable again….Romney also pledged to ease fuel-efficiency standards and to spend billions of dollars in federal money to bolster automakers…. [...]
Ahh, good old conservative corporate welfare…”What’s good for General Motors is what’s good for America…”
[...] Jon Taplin’s Blog wrote an interesting post today on Mitt Romney-Pander BearHere’s a quick excerptWhen John McCain had the temerity to tell Michigan voters, that “some of the lost jobs are not coming back”… [...]
moderator: here’s a corrected version, sorry!
OK. I’m a liberal. A ‘cradle liberal’, born in Marin. So let’s be clear on where I come from.
I believe that one of the main functions of government is to create a level playing field for the rest of us to–er- play on. A field that supports us and improves our lives and is borne by all. I support, for example, the idea that new home buyers should pay a tax to build necessary infrastructure to support that shiney new home, even though I make a living serving real estate developers.
And what those developers don’t get is this- as long as the rules apply to everyone, then the rules are building a better country. And same goes for auto standards.
Let the gov set fuel standards and we all benefit. And before you know it the car makers will be using new fuel efficiency as a sales tool, same as they do now about safety [remember how they squealed over requiring seat belts?].
Sheesh. I just can’t see the other side of this argument. I’ve tried.