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Why Is Rick Wagoner Fired and
Nancy Pelosi Still Working?
Posted 04/01/2009 ET
Updated 04/01/2009 ET
Apparently, it's OK for Obama to fire
the head of General Motors, but Bush can't fire his own U.S. attorneys.
It
is generally agreed that the Obama administration's demand that Rick
Wagoner resign as chairman of General Motors is the price of GM's
accepting government money.
To promote the sales of GM
vehicles, Obama says the government will stand by your GM car warranty.
And all the taxpayers will get a lube job. The new GM owner's manual
will come with a disclaimer: "Close enough for government work."
Now
that we're all agreed that the government can make hiring and firing
decisions based on infusions of taxpayer money, I can think of a lot
more government beneficiaries who are badly in need of firing.
Just off the top of my head, how about Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and
everybody at the Department of Education?
How
about firing all the former Weathermen, like Bill Ayers, Bernardine
Dohrn and Mark Rudd, whose university salaries are subsidized by the
taxpayer?
Nearly every university in the country accepts
government money. Is there any industry in America more in need of some
"restructuring" than academia? What's Berkeley's "business plan" to
stop turning out graduates who hate America?
And what is
Obama's justification for keeping Shirley M. Tilghman as president of
Princeton University as long as Princeton employs prominent crackpot
Peter Singer?
Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of
Bioethics at Princeton's Center for Human Values, believes parents
should have the right to kill newborn babies with birth defects, such
as Down syndrome and hemophilia, and says there is nothing morally
wrong with parents conceiving children in order to harvest them for
spare parts for an older child -- or even for society to breed children
on a massive scale for spare parts.
His views on these
issues are so extreme I'm surprised Singer hasn't been offered a
position in the Obama cabinet yet. Perhaps he paid his taxes and was
disqualified.
Singer compares the black liberation movement
to the liberation of apes, saying we must "extend to other species the
basic principle of equality that most of us recognize should be
extended to all members of our own species." (Imagine if Rush Limbaugh
had said that and then go lie down for 20 minutes.)
The
esteemed professor Singer also believes sex with animals is acceptable
and has no objections to necrophilia -- provided the deceased gave
consent when still alive. We're still waiting to hear his views on sex
with dead animals. Especially me, as I have no plans for next weekend.
Doesn't
a "new vision" for Princeton -- which benefits from massive taxpayer
subsidies in the form of student loans and government grants -- require
firing the president of Princeton? That university is clearly teetering
on the brink of moral bankruptcy.
When is the government
going to get around to firing 99 percent of public school
superintendents? They're clearly turning out an inferior product --
i.e., America's public school graduates -- as compared to some of the
foreign models now available.
In New York City, spending
on public schools increased by more than 300 percent between 1982 and
2001, coming in at $11,474 per pupil annually -- compared to about
$5,000 for private schools.
But in 2003, a New York court
ruled that graduates of New York City's public schools did not have the
skills to be "capable of voting and serving on a jury." (Worse, some
kids coming out of New York high schools are so stupid they don't even
know how to get out of jury duty.)
If Obama can tell GM and
Chrysler that their participation in NASCAR is an "unnecessary
expenditure," isn't having public schools force students to follow
Muslim rituals, recite Islamic prayers and plan "jihads" also an
"unnecessary expenditure"? Are all those school condom purchases
considered "necessary expenditures"?
Illegal aliens cost
the American taxpayer more than $10 billion a year, net, in Medicaid,
Medicare, food stamps, free school lunches, prison, school and court
costs. And yet cities, counties and states across the nation are openly
refusing to enforce federal immigration law against illegal aliens --
all while accepting billions of dollars of stimulus money on top of a
litany of other federal payouts.
Shouldn't somebody be fired over this? Like maybe Geraldo Rivera?
How
about hauling San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom before a congressional
committee and firing him? In fact, just being named "Gavin Newsom"
should be grounds for dismissal. San Francisco is getting $18 million
of stimulus money -- to say nothing of its residents who receive
federal money in the form of Social Security payments, government
grants, welfare payments, federal highway funds and on and on and on.
Doesn't
PBS take federal funds? Obama should really ask Big Bird to step down.
While we're at it, shouldn't Tim Geithner be fired?
Now that the government owns everything, there's no end to the dead
wood that can be cleared out.
Except
the problem is -- as this very partial list demonstrates -- most of the
dead wood exists only because of the government in the first place.
Capitalism has its own methods of clearing out dead wood, which the
government keeps preventing by forcing the taxpayer to bail out
capitalism's losers.
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