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

Pat Buchanan goes on a rant over President Obama's firing of GM CEO Rick Wagoner. Was Buchanan this outraged when President Reagan fired the air traffic controllers for going on strike and thereby becoming a union buster? MSNBC's Hardball with Howard Fineman and Chris Matthews (aired: 03/30/09).

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.