Writing the Obama Anti-America Legacy

The Legacy of the Obama Era in American politics and American history is being written, day by day, at such a rapid pace that I'm sure we are all missing something. The changes being brought about are devastating to huge segments of American Capitalism and the future of our very country is at stake. Obama is, as he says, remaking America.

The automobile industry in particular is being remade. Smaller cars, greener cars, cars nobody wants. This may be the most disastrous act in American manufacturing history. A headline this week asks: Could Obama's Economic Advisor Want American Car Companies to Fail? (Warren Buffett) This is a connect-the-dots kind of moment because Buffett has invested heavily in the Chinese electric car market and this week General Motors announced it will import thousands of Chinese made cars. Humm Quid Pro Quo?

As of March 2009, General Motors was taken over and is still being dismantled by the United States Government. President Obama fired Rick Wagoner, the GM, CEO in a fit of revolutionary fever of his Hope and Change theme for America. He appointed a new CEO and a new Board of Directors partly made up of Union officials. Even a 13 year old, like a young man named Alex Good, could understand the ramifications of Obama's actions.

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In case you haven't heard, President Obama and the White House has fired the General Motors CEO, Rick Wagoner. I'm not going to go into details on why this happened, I am only here to voice my opinion on whether or not this was a good choice, and how I see it.

When Obama fired Wagoner, I immediately thought of the concerns voiced during the election about Obama being a socialist, or having a few socialist beliefs or interests. As far as I know, Socialism is up there with Communism.

General Motors has been one of the most iconic companies in American history. There have been songs written about GM's most popular cars.



On August 23, 2005 General Motors Fairfax plan t created it's 10 millionth automobile. Union workers in the in the UAW Lo cal 31 Shop and the General Motors were among the top 3 assembly plants in North & South America as of July 5, 2008 according to JD Power.

"The Fairfax Plant & UAW Local 31 members have consistently produced high quality
products.  They are a fine example of how UAW employees have answered the challenge
and build award winning vehicles for the global market place," said Cal Rapson,UAW vice president.

"The J.D. Power award is one of the most coveted awards in the automotive industry,
and for our plant to receive two in 2008 only highlights the excellence of the Malibu product,
the employees who build it, our engineers who designed it and our suppliers,"
said Michael Dulaney, Fairfax plant manager. "It should also be recognized that we achieved
these results in our launch year and beat both of our major competitors -
Toyota Camry and Honda Accord."

This was the heyday of the one of the iconic industries in American history. Automobile manufacturing once the life blood of communities across the nation is now reduced to anafterthought by the Obama Administration's handling of the economy. It was not always thus.

The Fairfax plant was immense, a 3,200,000 sq ft facility, sitting on a 700,000 Acre plot of of prime real estate on the fertile bottom land in Kansas City, next to the Missouri River, on the Kansas side of the river.

The site has been the home to airports, the B-25 Mitchell war plane m an ufacturers and General Motors in it's storied past. It was the hub of the Kansas/Missouri postal servic e airport in 1925 as well as the the main airport that President Harry Truman flew into whenever he came home from Washington D.C. General Motors had built cars on the site since just after World War II.

The future is here, now, in a literary déjà vu of sorts from George Orwell's p rophetic science fiction novel 1984. Condensed here from SparkNotes study guide:

Orwell portrays a state in which government monitors and controls every aspect of human life to the extent that even having a disloyal thought is against the law. As the novel progresses, the timidly rebellious Winston Smith sets out to challenge the limits of the Party's power, only to discover that its ability to control and enslave its subjects dwarfs even his most paranoid conceptions of its reach. As the reader comes to understand through Winston's eyes, The Party uses a number of techniques to control its citizens, each of which is an important theme of its own in the novel.

• Psychological Manipulation - Purpose: to overwhelm the mind's capacity for independent thought.
• Physical Control - Controls the physical body.
• Control of Information and History - Control information, rewrite the content of all newspapers and histories.
• Technology - Telescreens and hidden microphones monitor people's every move.
• Language as Mind Control - Language has architectural form that can limit concepts. If you control of language you can make it impossible to have disobedient or rebellious thoughts, because there would be no words to form thought.

This is all seems very familiar. It sound like Obama is using 1984 as a template for Society and he has stunning ideas about the economy wich see to parrot a new book, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller. It reads like a blueprint for what Obama and his Administration are doing to engineer their new economy. They are tearing down the bastions of old Capitalism and replacing it with a theory.

Therein lies the problem. It is a theory and not all theories are proven. Obama's legacy may not be in remaking America but in bringing America to it knees under tyranny. His rhetoric may be high minded but his reality is frightening.