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Tag: gubernatorial

Government takeovers, broken promises and fraud in Detroit? (Nooooo...)

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Tue Apr 28, 2009 at 07:40:56 AM EST
Tags: 2010, gubernatorial, Williamson, GM, Obama, Reeves, Detroit City Council, fraud, corruption, whistleblower, racism (all tags)

Welcome to another swine-flu-free edition of RightMichigan.com. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, today's blog is brought to you using one-hundred-percent sans influenza. No pork was consumed at RM HQ today and no animals were harmed in the making of this blog.

Alas, the good news seems to stop there. Raise your hands if you DIDN'T see this one coming... General Motors new restructuring plan, the one being proposed this week by the CEO and the Board of Directors President Obama personally appointed, is going to propose nationalizing the company and ceding complete operational authority to the federal government. Because that management structure worked so well in the old Soviet Union.

The Detroit News reports:

The U.S. Treasury Department would own a majority of General Motors Corp. and have the right to appoint all of its directors, under the company's turnaround plan unveiled Monday -- the latest sign of the government's growing role in the automaker's restructuring.
The administration also told the Detroit automaker it wouldn't support giving bondholders any more than 10 percent equity in the company.

The bondholders, obviously, aren't happy. And neither should be the Michiganders working at GM plants or relying on those retirement checks. Many expect this move is a precursor to a bankruptcy filing and a messy round of fire sales and layoffs.

15 percent unemployment, here we come. Tomorrowish. And thanks specifically to the Obama administration.

By this point we should be used to Democrats behaving badly, though. The locals here in the Great Lakes State aren't exactly going to win citizenship awards any time soon, either. Over in Flint we've got the former mayor and potential 2010 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Don Williamson making a liar out of himself and demanding $600,000 in back pay from the city.

Read on...

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