http://beyondsuccess.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/robert-kiyosaki-wa

http://www.theartdeptchronicles.blogspot.com

“The fact of declaring chapter 11 will not cause the auto plants to evaporate. What will go away are the rediculous UAW agreements.”

I’d guess that you’re half right.

The UAW Collective Bargaining Agreements will evaporate, but the Big 3 “Maquiladora” assembly plants in Mexico will certainly remain…perhaps even be enlarged.

He spouts off about everything else under the sun, I just wonder that if he’s commented on this, it hasn’t been splashed.

One would think that for a guy who :made his bones” with the masterpiece: “Roger & Me”, he’d be front and center on this.

johnc: you’re coming from the right place, and it would be an utter disaster to bail these companies out and have the guvment overseeing them. But I think there is a good point to be made here. Your real beef is not with the politicians you resent who couldn’t run a lemonade stand (clearly this is true, and will always be so — after all, they are blowhard politicians), but the execs who actually have run the company into the ground (and thus also couldn’t run a lemonade stand). Ideological rhetoric — even the right kind — will only get you so far if you’re not willing to call out the true villains. Bitch about the lefty politicians all you want, and bitch about govt bureaucracy all you want, but in my view the real villain here is the confluence of greed and foolishness. The greed of the CEOs, who in my experience acquire an arrogance that seems close to divine right but whose salary is rarely if ever justified — the CEOs who, like well-positioned politicians, are usually insulated from disaster by their own political cronies — the corporate boards, who generally have pretty sweet deals themselves. Politicians, the lot of them, and rent-seekers all. When half-witted capitalists fail, they give socialist politicians opportunity to screw up our free markets, as well as saddle us with damaged GDP. So I say, a half-witted capitalist is more dangerous (and deserves more ire) than a no-witted and utterly predictable socialist.

I don’t know…the Post Office is pretty reliable. They hit every home and business in my neighborhood on a daily basis, even when it’s snowing. Ten bucks says your neighborhood gets the same treatment.

Social Security? It works pretty well. Raise your hand, Social Security haters, if you plan on NOT cashing any checks you may get. Raise your hand if you wouldn’t take the death benefit if a loved one died.

John McCain gets social security checks, even as he rails against them, and that dude is rich!

The problem with Social Security is not that it doesn’t work…it’s that it works too well! There will soon be too many people taking out money and not enough putting it in. It’ll become insolvent, but it does what it is intended to do. So does Medicare.

On the flipside, what about the military? If low-paid government employees are useless and for-profit capitalists are efficient, why send the Marines to war when we could just send in Blackwater? Oh wait…never mind. (I’ll take the grumpiest grunt over any “security contractor” any day.)

Right-wingers masquerading as conservatives need to get off this idea that government programs suck by virtue of being a government program.

(And yes…I said right-wingers masquerading as conservatives. They are NOT the same thing.)