"The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch."
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
Check out this wild yacht.
Retro motor bikes. Big $$$
"We had one idiot put a bomb in a shoe, and now everybody's got to take their shoes off? Where's the bra bomber at? I say, if we've gotta wait in line, let's make it fun for everybody."
You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
Ok. Listen up. We's gonna design ya a health plan. Way it works is, if you got no health plan 'cause your boss don' offer one, or you ain't workin', or just can't afford one for whatever, we're gonna take care of ya. If you can throw some change our way to help us pay for it, that's good - but if not don' worry, we got ya covered.
What we're gonna do is, all those people out there who have health plans at work? We're gonna put a tax on 'em, on what their plan costs for them. The better the plan they got, the more tax they pay. But you union guys, not to worry. We know you gots the best plans going, so that tax would just be way too much for ya. You don' gotta pay it. After all, you guys is family.
Does it really sound any less fugging stupid when your government says it?
Your government "bailed out" a major auto maker while claiming loudly and publicly that it would not interfere with the company's planned process for recovery. But now senators and state representatives are successfully blocking the automaker's attempts to close retail outlets in their neighborhoods.
And the UAW, with help from the big white house, has successfully blocked the automaker's plan to have a new small, fuel efficient product line manufactured overseas.
My heart is on the "keep the jobs here" side of the coin, but the UAW deserves no influence interfering with the recovering company's plan. The UAW, who successfully rose above federal law recently by becoming creditors before bond holders in another bankruptcy, and, took no meaningful concessions at the negotiation table prior to the collapse, is now responsible for a unit of that new product line costing you working folk $1,200 more if you want one. Yeah, that will help the company sell a lot of those.
From President Obama's speech, June 1, 2009:
What we are not doing -- what I have no interest in doing -- is running GM. GM will be run by a private board of directors and management team with a track record in American manufacturing that reflects a commitment to innovation and quality. They -- and not the government -- will call the shots and make the decisions about how to turn this company around. The federal government will refrain from exercising its rights as a shareholder in all but the most fundamental corporate decisions. When a difficult decision has to be made on matters like where to open a new plant or what type of new car to make, the new GM, not the United States government, will make that decision.
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