Sometimes it’s amazing how things happen.
After submitting my essay last week, I checked my emails and found an item from the Kettering Tea Party.
It was submitted by a friend talking about the government’s intervention in the automobile industry. I will share it with you:
Monday morning, I attended a breakfast meeting where the speaker/guest was David E. Cole, Chairman of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), a professor at the University of Michigan).
An engineer by training, Mr. Cole told stories of the difficulty of working with the folks the Obama administration has sent to save the auto industry.
In many meetings, a 30-plus-years experienced automotive expert has to listen to a newcomer to the industry, someone with zero manufacturing experience, zero auto industry experience, zero finance experience and zero engineering experience, tell them how to run their business.
Mr. Cole’s favorite story:
A team of Obama people began explaining to him that the auto companies needed to make a car that was electric and ran on liquid natural gas (LNG) with enough combined fuel to go 500 miles so we wouldn’t “need” so many gas stations (a whole other topic).
They were quoting BTUs of LNG and battery life that they had looked up on a website.
To accomplish this, said Mr. Cole, you would need a trunk full of batteries and an LNG tank as big as the car. Otherwise, there were problems related to the laws of physics that prevented them from…
The Obama person interrupted.
He said, and I quote: “These laws of physics? Whose rules are those? We need to change that.”
Other Obama persons wrote down the name of the law so they could look it up.
We Have Control
Said one: “We have the Congress and the administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or use an Executive Order to get rid of the problem. That’s why we are here, to fix these sorts of issues.”
And these are the people who are going to fix healthcare?
The next day I found a Washington Post/ABC News poll that said: “Two-thirds of Americans are dissatisfied or downright angry about the way the federal government is working.”
I hope the two-thirds of us unhappy with the workings our government will remember that when it comes time to vote. Many of us lose our long-term memory on Election Day, and we take the easy way out, voting for the incumbent.
As I stated last week, I am becoming more in favor of the “Get Out Of Our House” (GOOOH) movement. If our representatives in Washington are not going to represent the people of their districts, we should replace them with someone who will.
This past weekend I heard that our folks in Washington are considering a radio tax for stations playing music. What’s next from the poor leadership/representation we have?
America is a great country. We the people must once again take control.
Mr. Hennessey may be contacted at pmhenn@sbcglobal.net
