Let Cerberus fix Chrysler Not The Taxpayers???

Essaress ; Prior of the F.C.F.J., said...

Little Bobbie Nardelli is gonna get his golden parachute though, you betcha!!!
My Spouse worked for Home Depot for years before Bo-Bo-Bobbie took the helm...before, it was a wonderful company...after (and after he stuffed the board with his placeholder proxies) it was a thoughtless jerk of an immature drunken teen age boy.
His policies caused the company to lose and lose and lose value until the board it self asked him to leave...but he got paid millions first.. (around twenty to be approximate)

NOW he heads up Chrysler??? WTF??

I want a place in society where no matter HOW BADLY I screw up, or HOW POOR MY JOB PERFORMANCE is ...I still get paid mega bucks...
But I guess I would have to make some kind of deal with a three headed dog from hell first...huh???

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Blogger Essaress ; Prior of the F.C.F.J., said...

And BTW but sorta off topic... Did any notice that the day before yesterday Gm had it's finance division given "Bank" status by the FED??? So, really they will get more money now than they were asking for and it will be with absolutely no strings attached....

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Blogger Cookie Jill said...

John Snow was really pushing for that GMAC bank status think. Cerberus owns part of GMAC. Personally, what these CEOs have done to the Country I would consider TREASONOUS.

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Blogger Essaress ; Prior of the F.C.F.J., said...

Amen ..

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Blogger Jack K. said...

...as a fairly with-it gearhead car guy, I strongly suspected that the ultimate demise of Chrysler was written back when Daimler-Benz became majority owner in 1998. Daimler's sale of its majority shareholding to Cerberus wasn't anything other than the sealing of the fate of the company we all used to lump under the old 'MOPAR' label back when it was the Chrysler Corporation...

The time of the Duster, the Super Bee, and the Charger Daytona is long gone, and the time of what we used to know as the Chrysler Corporation may well follow those marque models down the memory hole...

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Blogger Essaress ; Prior of the F.C.F.J., said...

I really do not disagree with you Jack...it makes me ask though..."IF" the CEO's and the Boards Of Directors are not the real culprits, if their contributions are not major and in fact very interjacent of success versus utter failure...then what the hell justifies the outrageous pay that these a-holes routinely draw???
If compensation is not comensurate to skill and ability then they are twice guilty of malfeasance AND gross negligence as well as intentionally driving the corporations overseen by them into some sort of crisis just so that their "friends" can come and suck the bones of the now dying entity...
If compensation is NOT tied to ability...then we absolutely are witnessing grand and large scale theft.. legally to be sure (thanks to lobbyists and a willing congress egged on by the visions of sugar coated nothing jobs with those lobbying firm or CEO status or at least board memberships), but theft nonetheless...
And Jack that makes me sad and angry and more than slightly impotent as to direction of action that I could take... I have no wish to see those firms die... But it seems that my wishes matter less than my blogging...
Wealth is the Big Voice here....

10:06 PM PST

Was Bernie The Only Thief In The Game???(posted on Skippy)

Without knowing anymore than has been reported..(and I'm sure that there is a truckload that has not) I have to say I tend to agree with the first post here...these folks all no doubt felt that they were getting a better deal than anybody else, that this was a "special" deal reserved for "deserving" people and ...yeah that is what they found, that they deserved exactly what they got...
The eight hundred pound gorilla that I don't hear anybody acknowledging in any way is,.. Just how many more of these assholes are out there??? How many banks are covering their "losses" by getting free money from the FED..
I DO KNOW that there is a guy right here in my area that just got indicted for the exact same thing but on a much smaller scale...and he operated for years in the open with the full blessing and backing of a major local bank. The bankers would actually steer investors to this guy...at one time before he got "too prominent" he was a board member.
And the whole time , in reality he was nothing but a damn thief.
But like my spouse and myself were discussing...if that had been one of us, we would have gone straight to jail years ago... I think there are a lot of "investment professionals" out there that are needing some serious spankings...
I'm just as sure that that will not happen...but we can pay , oh yes we can pay and we will....

11:21 AM PST

"I Don't Think People Can Know How Deeply He Feels"

That's what I heard a JERK on MSNBC say tonight about Dick (head) Cheney...
He was referring to the amount of relative pain that the VP might or might not feel toward the resulting deaths of servicemen and women that his and Lil'George's actions have purchased for the American People.
Don't know???? Son of Bitch feels NOTHING......Thats how deeply he feels...not at ALL!!!!
Does he consider that his actions could have been even a bit more thoroughly considered???
HELL NO!!!
Does he think we have the right to dispute him??? Well,.. We can go "F&*k Ourselves"..
This motherf*$#er should be in prison... Him and George both... I know that it will NEVER happen, but that is where they should both be put in order for our Country to begin to earn back our trust worldwide... Why is it that we think nothing of telling other country's how they should act and treat their leaders,...but that same measuring stick cannot be applied to our own selves????
Have we actually earned the bad reputation we have worldwide?? Do we deserve it???
I don't know anymore...the last EIGHT YEARS OF CONTINUAL LYING have left me partially blind and deaf to the rest of the world....
I am convinced that this entire administration should be deeply and completely investigated, criminal charges brought to bear, court hearing held , and justice squarely handed out....
The last eight years have left me and just about everyone I know feeling lost and sickened..feeling that it really did not matter what was moral...what was publicly demanded, what the World Wants...no matter...what we would see would be what the Ultra Rich wanted, what the Mega Corporations Wanted...and what the Republican Party Wanted....
I want to be a part of a country and people that make me proud... not feel ashamed.
Not feel dirty.
Not feel like I am part of a conspiracy that savaged a large part of the planet..
I want to feel like an American again...

In Response to Several Protests Concerning Obama's Choice to Give the Inaugration Invocation.

Essaress ; Prior of the F.C.F.J., said...

Left I, I have been unaffiliated for ten 'effing years...it is shite just like this that caused me to leave the Democratic Party as an elected official...it is this type of pandering that I find disheartening and degenerating in nature (at the heart of the Party)...I voted for Obama , not because of some vague fear that "Bush- Lite" would be in there otherwise, but because of another type of stupid prejudice that has to stop in our country...
It has to start somewhere and I am certain it would never start with the criminal family called Republicans...It will start with the Democrats...
While this is a terribly upsetting action by my President...I am not about to repudiate everything he does AFTER he is sworn in, Before He Is Sworn IN!!!
I see it as an attempt to send the message of tolerance to those Fundamentalists , those American (Christian) Taliban... That he is willing to entertain their opinions at least, not that he is going to convert to their agenda...
But it is pandering, it is sickening and I don't like it...
"Threaten to not vote for him"???? Never gonna happen... I DID vote for him, twice, both in the primary, and the general election...
One poor (and badly judged) action BEFORE he is even legally President does not invalidate his administration Before it is even started...
Is it cause to drop Democratic affiliation??? You damn right it is...
Now it remains to be seen how compromised he allows things to get...
But again, history is never a smooth shot to the heights...it rarely ever goes forward without first going backward too...
We accomplished an historic event electing Obama...
Now we wait...

Is He, "AL FRANKEN" Qualified to be a Senator ????

Everybody knows a funny SOB from their family or neighborhood...but does that funny mother-shut yomouth make a living for decades from wittiness???
What I'm driving at here is Al's qualifications... Is he qualified to be a Senator???
I would argue that anyone able to stay employed and provide for a family and stay popular is a bit more than just a funny guy... I would argue that person is really rather intelligent and able to fully grasp their surroundings and those of the world in general and find a way to present those events to the population in a way that is easily and quickly grasped and in a way that offers no threat but includes them and thereby makes them feel safe enough to laugh...
I would argue that he, "Al Franken" is entirely qualified to be a Senator and as such would most likely be a Better one than his predecessor....
I hope he finally prevails...

I Just LOVE Our Melting Pot....

A few words at this point about cultural cross connections….
In my neighborhood there is a yard display of epic content and ambition… It has all the usual trees encrusted in lights from base to twig tip, the flashing sidewalk side lights showing the passerby the way to the front door.. It enjoys the truly majestic roof cloaking of possibly a couple of thousand twinkling tiny sliver lights and of course a life sized sleigh and reindeer…. There is no chimney but that hardly seems to matter…
AND ,…..as the “coupe’de grace” as it were,... a life size diorama on the lawn of that historic event that took place when SANTA brought the BABY JESUS some gaily wrapped presents!!!!!!
YES !!!
Just like it happened in the Bible!!!
Why I remember when that took place myself…it was right after Santa bravely defeated the Nazis at Pearl Harbor and flew to Europe so that he could prevent Al Queda from starting a Nuclear Summer. This enabled Santa to quickly race back to Trenton , New Jersey and with the help of his elves produce and hand out enough Ice Skates to equip each of George Washington’s Revolutionaries in a truly professional fashion . Thus George and friends managed to skate across the Potomac River and save Francis Scott Keyes from the Japanese and that allowed the Poet Keyes to branch out and write our national anthem…the Battle Hymn Of the Republic…
Thanks again SANTA!!!!!!!!

In Response to a Skippy Posted Video About The "True" Cost Of Wal Mart

Just as when , in orientation I had to listen to a member of management tell a room full of adults that,"Wal Mart is not anti-union..Wal Mart is pro-Associate"..and tell us that with a straight face... I proceeded to get into a protracted argument with that man over the stupidity of such a statement...
It is usually followed up with remarks like ,"We simply feel that our associates are smart enough to decide what to do with their pay and no union should be involved"...
More stupidity...
However, If you are going to go around talking about the evils of a thing...you really should know in detail, what you are talking about...
That hasn't stopped an unknowable number of folks holding forth about the horrors of this drug, that company, that religious group, etc...but it should have...
Wal Mart for instance DOES provide access to health care for it's associates...it isn't really worth having...but they do it...so when I hear from some video source that they don't...it gets me a bit angry...because it puts me into the position of having to appear to defend a corporation that I truly feel is a blight on our economy...

Tell the truth, derived from facts...thats all I'm sayin...

3:32 PM PST

He Didn't Do Anything "WRONG".....

Right, right, right.... he didn't do anything ,"WRONG"...just a bunch, a truck load, a stunning pile of COMPLETELY ILLEGAL stuff.....
I am so surprised by the Governor of Illinois...
Not by the "gimme Money, Gimme MORE @!!!"...but by the totally stupid way in which he and his staff went about it...
Apparently this guy Knew he was being seriously looked at by the FEDS...and he just kept doing the same dumb shit!! ??????
So,...Okay....Not Wrong...Just STUPID!!!!!!

I Honestly Could Not Explain....

Seriously,....I could not begin to explain to anyone at all what the Congress of the United States is thinking....
I mean if they are afraid of appearing to be a completely clueless grouping of spineless boobs...they are too late!!!
They gave nearly a trillion dollars to a fucking guy that sat right in front of them and told them point blank that he could not explain to them where he really was going to be spending that money....
THEN....
Along come the car companies and ask for thirty four billion in LOANS...and,
they more or less tell them to go fuck themselves....

SERIOUSLY GUYS!!! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING??????

Do the car companies really need this money??? Probably....
Should we give a shit???? ONLY IF they can show a real plan to change their methods of construction and engineering...
And ONLY IF they can show a timetable to actually switch from oil based solely, to at least some hybrid technology....

SO, WHY DID THE FUCKING BANKERS GET THAT MONEY??????
If you actually don't get that the answer is as simple as MONEY..then I guess you either don't live here, or you have been in a long term coma.

I am just sickened by all this shit.....
And hey!!! Where the fuck is MY MONEY???? I'm broke all the time mostly because of poor judgment concerning money....
WHERE IS MINE??????

See??? I Told You They Would Say It !!!!!!

So, now the big fucking objection to Obama is being voiced by the FUCKING RELIGIOUS RIGHT.. Huge FUCKING SURPRISE!!!!!!
They are saying that he should stop calling himself a "Christian" because he answered a question from Franklin Graham about the only path of salvation with a short discourse on his own deceased mother...
Question,"Is the Only Path to Salvation through Jesus Christ???"
Answer," My own mother was not a Christian, and yet she was one of the noblest, finest hearted people I have Ever met. I find it impossible to believe that She is Not in Heaven..."
In other words, no, J.C. not the ONLY path...
But then, two thirds of the Planet already know this....
Sorry, (no, I'm really not sorry), but I am convinced that this sort of social extortion has to be stopped...its one thing to have and strongly hold personal beliefs... It is damn near criminal to FORCE those beliefs down the throats of any and all that do not share them....
Goddam...how would the fundamentalists scream if the Church of Satan was allowed to grill any political quester with even Half the openness and ugliness that the "Christians" have been allowed???
And on that subject,...why haven't they been allowed the same or equal freedom???
Our tiara of freedom is looking a bit tarnished now....ain't it????