Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Auto Extortion

The government is being extorted by GM and Ford to the tune of 25 billion of your Earth dollars. They say that they are too big to fail, and if they are allowed to, two and a half million people will be out of work, the sun will go black, and you'll have to eat turd sandwiches to survive.

I have a modest proposal. Let us instead purchase GM and Ford, as taxpayers, and then set up each company (or one combined company) as a not-for-profit corporation.

The capitalists are waving the white flag, here. A low interest loan will only delay the inevitable. But if you go my Socialist way, you don't have to even make a profit. Workers' wages could continue to be negotiated via unions. The board of this new corporation could be compensated through a salary and benefits package approved by Congress. A trust for profits could be established, and used to fund expansion and investment.

Just an idea, folks. A big, fat RED one.

3 comments:

GamerCow said...

so if they buy ford stock with our tax money, can we get dividends when the stock goes up?

Anonymous said...

Hi, I am The Man In Black and I approve this post.

I want t-shirts that say "Non-Profit America" in a bold upper-case font, red print on black, the A's bigger and tightly circled. yea or nay?

mel said...

Oh, my, C. said pretty much the same thing. Now I'm wondering if she read your blog first!