Thursday, November 19, 2009
Car Czar Rips Free Market and Praises Mao?
I heard the audio clips on Glenn Beck a while ago, and my cousin just sent me the YouTube. The "shocking" things are quite shocking indeed, but Obama car czar (and former assistant to the president of United Steel Workers) Ron Bloom says the stuff so nonchalantly that I would like to know the context. In the YouTube below I got you at least 30 or 45 seconds before the money quotes kick in, but I still can't understand what the heck he is talking about.
Do I just need to accept the fact that Obama's got plenty of people who (a) not only believe socialism is better than capitalism but (b) have traveled in such circles that they don't even realize how shocking their views sound if stated plainly?
Or is this just a Glenn Beck hit piece, and Bloom is talking about a dream he had or something?
Do I just need to accept the fact that Obama's got plenty of people who (a) not only believe socialism is better than capitalism but (b) have traveled in such circles that they don't even realize how shocking their views sound if stated plainly?
Or is this just a Glenn Beck hit piece, and Bloom is talking about a dream he had or something?
Comments:
Bob, here is the link to Part 1 of the video you linked to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5REpyFNFqKQ
# posted by 
: November 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM
: November 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Sounds like a politician who hasn't yet learned how to obfuscate. From a politicians POV the USA IS about power and influence not about voluntary trade in a free market. If you try to simply trade in a free market you will get "beat up and robbed" by the guy with the power. So you need some power of your own and political power comes from the "barrel of a gun."
Perhaps what is shocking to you is how accurately he has identified the primary social/political trends in the USA during the past 50 years.
Perhaps what is shocking to you is how accurately he has identified the primary social/political trends in the USA during the past 50 years.
# posted by : November 19, 2009 at 8:21 PM
: November 19, 2009 at 8:21 PM
I agree with Jeremy. The Mao part didn't sound so shocking. Political power is defined by the use of a gun. If you have power that doesn't come by the use of force, then it isn't political power...
Yeah, even Dagny Taggart shot a dude dead when rescuing John Galt. Force trumps reason, eh?
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