Get Activated!

While I hold out very little hope that the politically engineered bankruptcy and takeover of Chrysler by Italian carmaker Fiat will bode well for either company, their suppliers or the Michigan economy overall. I believe that it will inevitably fail and here's why; First, Fiat is a small company to start with and it is not in good financial health either. Secondly, having been delivering parts inside of the Warren assembly plant where the Dodge Dakota and Ram trucks are put together when the filing was made public, I talked with several Chrysler workers on the loading dock, and learned that several suppliers had already stopped shipping parts, including the Warren Stamping Plant (another Chrysler facility)! No more floor pans were being brought in and you can't make any vehicles without that!

Chrysler is going to go away! It may take a few more months, but it will go away. And along with it many suppliers will fail. Once that happens, the community businesses that are supported by a robust automotive sector (like mom and pop restaurants, party stores, and bars) will also fall as the Michigan economy implodes.

It will be an exponential acceleration to the bottom as businesses fail, the population leaves, and tax bases evaporate. The Michigan government is already $1 Billion in the red this year, and next year's budget is projected to have a deficit of over $2 Billion! We aren't that far behind California as far as deficits go. Well we do have a little bit better looking jerkenator for Governor after all.

Even Michigan's most wealthy county, Oakland is starting to show signs of the economic strain. Oakland County Michigan is one of only 49 counties in the entire United States with an "AAA" bond rating, but that may be changing soon according to the County Executive, L. Brooks Patterson.

Ah, but we have "Hope and Change" to look forward to saving the day!

What is telling about the Government orchestrated Chrysler deal is that it gives the majority ownership stake in the new company to the union! That is such a transparent act of payback for the loyalty of the votes of the union in Obama's election to office. His administration is so blatantly transparent, so brazen, so unapologetic for their political pandering and groveling it makes me want to heave. He does not really care about the union, the workers that it represents, or the "microeconomy" that he views as Michigan; all that matters to him is political expediency.

Don't believe the "drive-by media" who experience those tingly feelings up and down their legs whenever Obama speaks. (They actually have Obamagasms whenver the Annointed One is near). If you really want to know what is truly going on with our government I suggest that you do three things. First, go to Amazon online and purchase the book "Liberty and Tyranny; A Conservative Manifesto" by Mark R. Levin, and secondly Go to the website for the Heritage Foundation and join and make sure that you order a copy of the pocket sized edition of the Declaration of Independence and The United States Constitution. Every American citizen should have one and know what is in it! Also go to Glen Beck's 9/12 Project and read up, join, and sound off on what you believe in! And above all, share all of this with as many people will be receptive. Activate yourself and others. It matters. It is important!