Why Was The Chevy Driven Into The Levee?
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Don McLean sang the song “American Pie’ in which one verse says:
So bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
But with GM having to file bankruptcy just to stay afloat, it makes one wonder who drove the Chevy into the levee? It is easy to point fingers and blame the GM executives who may have mismanaged the company. Or to can blame the UAW for draining the company dry in demanding excessive perks.
We can blame the Republicans for their allegiance to corporate America in which they appear to be in bed with each other. Or how about the Democrats for being anti business in appearance and who want to tax the heck out of businesses. The only ones we can’t blame are the Libertarians and Independents.
We can’t blame China since they haven’t started exporting cars to the U.S. Nor can we blame Tibet since they manufacture no cars for themselves. We could blame the Japanese for building a better car than America car builders could. But how about the Koreans, Germans, Swiss, and all of the other car companies? Should we blame them as well?
Who do you blame?
After all: isn’t it the new wave of thinking? Blame everyone except for yourself?
Drop a note and let me know what you think.
5 Comments
Buffet
June 6th, 2009
at 11:40pm
I personally blame GREED. The bastards priced themselves right outta business. The lesson to be learned here is to be content with a fair and reasonable profit.
Martin Kruse
June 9th, 2009
at 6:49pm
UAW wanted to get paid more and more and refused to take a paycut during downturns and bleed the company dry of cash. I have no sympathy and will not be buying a vehicle from “Government Motors”
leftystrat
June 9th, 2009
at 8:44pm
Wasn’t it more a question of who drove the plane into the levee in the song?
What you’re talking about is Corporate Welfare.
We have somehow managed to privatize profits and socialize losses.
Now let’s all get back to Americans Idle.
NeverEnough It Seems
June 11th, 2009
at 7:56am
It seems as if we appoint people to places that have NO business there! No matter whether, Gov., Corps,. (no jab intended ). People that CAN’T give you the approximate price of milk and whether it is higher than gas or not, should live off of one-half our budget, that ask to serve us as a collective. Whether DC or De t riot (misspelt on purpose). You have GM and Chrysler about to go belly up and the infinite wisdom of the Govmt. is about to print more money to cover the debt. ,,,, I read not long ago ,,, we the USA has 300 Million people and IF we gave each one One Million Dollars to buy homes and cars buy good used cars (were the monies will not go into all the money hungry bastards pockets), get a plot of land buy some acreage for cows and do our on milking. Pay our bills on time ,,,, Hell! ,,, You either get the idea by now or you are one of them!
DoesntBuyAmerican
June 14th, 2009
at 9:32am
It’s more like “Bye bye, Miss American Pie” and “Hello Ms. Socialist Piece of the Pie”.
I blame American cars because they suck, and myself for being too smart to buy one. Let them go down so we can start making something we’re actually good at. I mean besides Laws and Government.
What are they going to do about the bankrupt Six Flags theme parks? Turn them into Gov Land?