Pat Buchanan Rants Over Obama Firing GM CEO Wagoner w/Chris Matthews (HQ)

[chukmaty]

Air Traffic controllers were government employees providing key services for the people on the taxpayers dime, GM was a previously private company that the government took over, signaling a beginning to the statist Obamanomics policies that are now showing themselves to be even more ruinous than anyone anticipated.

[callouschristian]

"More ruinous" to republicans maybe. Anything that doesn't create misery and steal from the poor is bad to republicans. Repbublicans are terrorists that deserve nothing but a noose and a wobbly tree.

[Reazzurro90]

What a stupid comparison. The Air Traffic Controllers were employees of the federal government.

It's not the same thing.

[dawgnpony]

R90: Obviously you've never heard of PATCO: founded in 1968 and decertified in 1981 following the strike which was broken by the Reagan Administration. The current union is NATCA which was founded in 1987.

A word of advice from Mark Twain, "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, then to pen it and remove all doubt."

[Reazzurro90]

patco wasn't private. It was a government union.

That's the difference which you still don't get

[dawgnpony]

R90: There is no such thing as a government run or privately owned union. You are a 21 year old, poorly educated simpleton that hasn't a clue of what you are railing on about. I have zero tolerance for mouthy, little twits that fail to think before posting inane comments. I suggest you grow up and stop making a fool of yourself.

[dbrock1973]

@dawgnpony You are an idiot to be attacking someone else without the ability to see the difference between the two. Air Traffic Controllers cannot legally strike. They were warned and then fired. And there is a difference in what a private union and a government employees union can do.

Your zero tolerance rule should apply to yourself. Well, it applies to you if you add the term moron to it.

[Userduder]

Pat rocks.

[playboy414]

what would you do

[exenrontexas]

I attended a shareholders meeting of JP Morgan Chase bank where a minority but substantial shareholder, the Sisters of Mercy, promoted a change in by laws and bank policy that allowed the bank to lend directly to agencies and businesses in third world countries such as Latin America. The bank's policy was to lend to the Central Banks of those countries with the hope that they would lend to such groups. That proposal was DEFEATED because the US government want to prop up foriegn governments.

[exenrontexas]

What Obama is doing is CORRECT and in accordance with corporate standards. The CEO and Board are elected by the common stock shareholders. The US GOVERNMENT has a MAJOR position in that and would be NEGLIGENT if they did not act to remove ineffective management. Corporate executives COOK THE PROCESS by voting for themselves the shares that owned by ESOPs and schmoozing other large shareholders such as mutual funds. THEY do NOT promote the well being of the majority of shareholders.

[gilbertl2000]

This has nothing to do with whether Rick Wagoner should have the job or not, it's not the president's place to fire him. He has no legal authority to do so. Of course people are upset at what Mr. Wagoner is doing with taxpayer money and want justice, but you can't pick and choose which laws to abide by. Even if you are the president. That's a perfect example of the unintended consequences that come when the federal government starts bailing out companies and getting into business where they

[gilbertl2000]

don't belong.

[moronpaul]

Alright.

- I am planning on buying a new car later this year.

BUT IT WON'T BE AN OBAMAMOBILE.

[classicallady]

Again last OI checked OUR MONEY were used to bail them out HENCE is OUR company and the elected President, representing the ppl should obviously FIRE him!

[konekufpictures]

Right. Americans became shareholders and therefore a say. That's what all these 'free marketeers' don't get. They justify a president busting PATCO (air traffic controllers union) because they were government employees, but get their knickers in a twist over Obama firing a CEO that couldn't get his finger out of his arse which caused a company that employs thousands to fail.

[classicallady]

And don't forget their NERVE about flying to Washington in their private ass plane! Also to say, maybe according to freemarketers, all those ceo losers at Wall Street, should indeed get their bonuses for bankrupting the country AND the world! It's like rewarding a child for stealing and destroying!

[NYJared04]

This man was running for President as a Reform party candidate back in 2000. He's got his shit right. He knew how corrupt our gov't was. He was the only man attacking this New World Order.

He writes very good books.

[rpsurfr]

The PATCO people were employees not a CEO, it is different it is like firing a Senator

Nice work Comrade Obama.

Next we will get the Chinese to build our next Space Shuttle

Take a look at the Congress and it's role in the demise of the US Autos, you think a company wants to fail? Come on people

[edizzidydawg]

dawgnpony, you ask if Buchanan was upset about Reagan firing the air traffic controllers. That's a pretty ridiculous comparison considering the air traffic controllers were GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. They were government workers who refused to work. Of course they should be fired. As to Wagoner, he was a CEO of a company in the private sector. Understand the difference, because it's a crucial difference. He wasn't informed of any plans to step down when he took initial bailout money.

[superfrognyc]

Pat is right again! (he usually is)

[loadi2]

fired wagoner thats good should have shoved a hummer up is ass before he left

[Kratos332]

snarf