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Friday, May 19, 2006

Protecting the "little guy"

Ya gotta love the hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty of lefties. Strike that. It would be funny if only it didn't lead to economic disaster, real unfairness and loss of freedom.
Today in Prairie Pravda Chris Rasmussen of Minneapolis writes how Sen. Larry Pogemiller should lose his seat in November for proposing a tax on sports memorabilia that is "regressive" because the "little guy". That this tax on the "little guy" will possibly scuttle the stadium deal. That it's only the children and their parents who want a memento of their first twins, Gophers, Vikings, etc game that will have this tax fall on them.
And Rasmussen sees absolutely NO irony in that the stadium bill, as now envisioned, is going to be paid by people who have no choice in the matter. Thousands upon thousands of "little guys". When Rasmussen's "little guy" willingly buys "
a cap, pennant or jersey to wear home as a souvenir" that "little guy" pays directly for what he uses. He calculates the total cost of his purchase versus the enjoyment and makes a decision. My widowed mother has no such luxury in the "stadium deal" (which is no deal for her or many other "little guys"). She will be forced to pay for something that she neither wants nor will ever use or benefit from. And she is one of the "little guys" Rasmussen supposedly defends. And sees no irony in Pogemiller's decisions.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Vive le difference!

There has been a lot of buzz, in recent weeks, about the release of the movie "The DaVinci Code" based on the book of the same name. While I have not yet had the opportunity to read the book (I would need at least 3 more hours in each day in order to add more reading to my plate), I have read enough about the book to have a pretty good idea what it is about, but I digress...

What struck me the most about the discussions was the reaction to the book/movie. Remember that the basis of the book and the movie is that the deity of Christ was "made up" some 300 years after his death. You have Christians
writing lengthy scholary papers disputing the allegations in the book, you have Christians suggesting protests or boycotts of the movie, you have Christians talking about lawsuits. Contrast that reaction with the reaction of the Muslim world where they had rioting, looting, burning and murder all because of a series of cartoons that "insulted" Mohammed....

A world of difference, don't you think?

The depravity of Islamists

I have tried to maintain a rather neutral tone when speaking on this subject because I realize that there are a lot of Muslims who are Muslim in name only, just like there are Catholics in name only (that is they were born into a Muslim/Catholic household but they never practiced the faith). However there have been a couple of stories this week that have just about pushed me over the edge.

First is
this story. It just stuns me (and saddens me) that ANYONE would rejoice in the death of a child!

The second is
this story. What kind of sick, twisted degenerate would string up a wounded 12 year old boy from a power pole - leaving him there to die! As the mother of a 12 year old, this story hit me hardest! I can just imagine the horror that child's mother felt upon learning that her husband had been brutally murdered and her precious child tortured in this manner.

"Terrorist elements named Jundollah (God's soldiers), headed by Abdolmalek Rigi, claimed responsibility for the attack," General Eskandar Momeni, a deputy commander of Iran's police force told Iranian media. "

I'm sorry, but anyone who commits murder in the name of their God, whether it be Islamists or those who shoot abortion doctors, are not speaking in the name of a "peaceful" god (as Islamists claim Allah is). Murder is murder and sick is sick and these people are just evil!

Obviously this means we need more gun control

According to KSTP News, Eagan police are looking for a young man who is suspected of armed robbery. According to store surveillance video, the young man is seen walking into the store, pouring himself a cup of coffee and then walking up to the counter to pay for the cup o' joe. When the clerk opens the register, he throws the coffee in the clerks face and grabs a handfull of cash and runs out the door!

Sadly, this is not the first
time that this has happened. Thankfully the clerks in both incidents were not badly burned by the coffee.

However, this just goes to prove an old adage that gun control freaks refuse to acknowledge.....take away the guns and crooks will find something else to use as a weapon!

A couple of quick hits to start the day

I have a couple of lengthy posts in the works, but to tide you over I have a couple of quick items to ponder.

Why is it that when Republicans point out a Democrats record on something it is an "attack" but the Dems have no problem making up LIES about his/her Republican candidate in order to get elected?

Why is it that the same organization that can not even come up with an ID card to protect it's own employees, is one that thinks it can impliment "tamperproof" biometric id cards for illegal aliens?

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Con libertad y justicia para todos

The St Paul Pioneer Press alerts us to this story out of Lakeville.

"Minnesota educators leading students in the Pledge of Allegiance would be barred from using a Spanish version of the pledge under legislation announced Monday by Rep. Marty Seifert, R-Marshall."

What brought this fine example of government "interference" was word that the principal of the Kenwood Trail Middle School in Lakeville was leading the children in the Pledge of Allegiance in English AND Spanish! The principal says he was doing it to "practice his Spanish". OK......

Our ever-judgemental friends at the Star Tribune (Prairie Pravda as Amendment X calls it) had this headline in
reporting on the situation.

"Reciting 'Pledge' in Spanish raises hackles"

Compare that the the Pioneer Press' headline which simply said "Bill would bar Spanish pledge in Schools". Just reporting the facts ma'am....no bias here.....

Thankfully, the Lakeville area has a Rep with an ounce of common sense.


"Rep. Mary Liz Holberg, R-Lakeville, said the controversy has stirred much talk in her community. The consensus? "The pledge is not the thing to practice your Spanish on," she said. "I think the majority believe that if you're in this country, you should speak English."

On one hand, I hope that this is just electioneering grandstanding. I would like to think that there is not an overwhelming demand for this. Then again, given that we already have "Nuestro Himno" maybe it is necessary.

Marginalizing conservatives... and a good toothbrush.

We're all hearing it. Again. "If you sit home on Election Day...", "It will be worse under the Democrats...", "Can you say SPEAKER Pelosi ?", "Don't waste your vote by...", etc., etc., etc....
I hate taking issue with my friend Captain Ed (or with Lady Logician ), however, I'm tired of hearing the threats of my voting lockstep. Captain Ed takes a view like Lady Logician.
He says that we conservatives will be marginalized. And what are we now? When I'm taken for granted, when I'm threatened with the alternative, when rather than being told that I can vote FOR someone instead of voting against the alternative, I've already been marginalized. I've heard the song and dance for over five years. I've endured "No Child Left Behind", "Medicare Prescription Drugs","Ethanol", no border security or even attempts to secure the border, the Gang of Fourteen, Harriet Miers, $200,000,000,000 for Katrina and Chocolate New Orleans, no drilling in ANWR, John McCain trying to kiss and makeup and on and on. And I'm NOT marginalized?
GWB had an small opportunity to at least look like he was making an attempt to try to appeal to conservatives with his Monday night speech. The result? Here, here, here, here and here.
And this from my friend Professor Joe Olson (law professor at Hamline Law School and a national expert on the 2nd Amendment and founder of MNCCRN ). The article has this resounding quote:
"the latest surveys reflect a significant shift in the political landscape as growing numbers of conservatives who have long and loyally kept their brooding private are now going public about their deepest dissatisfactions with George W. Bush [and thereby "moderate" Republicans]. ***, but conservatives won'’t be satisfied this time around with more token efforts on issues like marriage and dire warnings that “the Democrats would be far worse. Conservatives have heard that song before and know it never has a second verse."
And the toothbrush reference? One I've used before. As a child when I had an appointment with the dentist, I brushed my teeth until my gums bled. I was going to brush away every single cavity and put one over on Dr. Schoenleben. And the Republicans seem to have that same childish outlook with their voting records and the appointment they have with me on November 7th.
Brush real hard kids!

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Criminal matter or war?

Last week-end, Coleen Rowley was published by the Star Tribune. The subject of her piece (which I posted on here) was the Moussaoui trial and how it showed we could treat the Global War on Terror in the courts as opposed to on the battlefield. The tenor of my initial post was a bit snarky. What I would like to do here is to show why her theory will not work against the global jihad in which we are currently engaged. Many of the links I have posted here are from Dr. Bruce D.Tefft, Director of Terrorism Assessment Center for CRA-USA in Alexandria Virginia. I got to know Dr. Tefft in a political discussion group that we both belong to. These links are from newspapers and other "open sources". When put together, this information shows why treating the GWOT as a police action (which is the tactic that candidate Rowley espouses) is the wrong action!

1) Public trials in the criminal justice system require revealing intelligence that needs to be kept secret. Names of covert agents would have to be revealed as the agent is required to testify in court. Remeber the furor of Valerie Plame and the leaks of the identities of working agents in the
T.J.Waters book? You think that "leaking" Valerie Plame's name was a blow to national security? Just wait until an agent who is working under cover is killed because he testified in court against the cells he had infiltrated.

2) Hurricane Katrina - what does Katrina have to do with fighting terrorism in the courts vs with the military? Simple - take a look at how the government and civilian authorities like FEMA reacted to the devistation of Katrina. Now, look at what happened once the military took over. Do you really think anything has
changed since then????

3) The government can't even secure it's own
departments - how do you expect them to secure our borders, our ports, our airports and our cities? The government can't even secure it's own databases!

4) The FBI (Ms. Rowley's former employer) is still trying to
figure out HOW it is going to tackle terrorism. It has had a huge turnover in leadership that has slowed the re-organization of the FBI into a "terror fighting" organization. The US Senate grilled FBI Director Mueller over the organizations dismal handling of the terror investigations it had worked on. Given the misses that they detailed, how can an organization this inept fight a cold?

5) Intelligence organizations rarely get the "
whole picture". They may find out a piece here and a piece there, but rarely do they know the full intentions until it is too late. We had a piece here and a piece that about OBL, but in the end, did anyone really think he would fly airplanes into the World Trade Center towers prior to him actually doing so?

6) Logic dictates that if you can not even secure your own border, you are not going to be very effective at keeping those that want to do you harm OUT. It is a proven fact that we can not control our borders and that our law enforcement officials often do not play well together. As long as this remains the status quo, the law enforcement aspect will never work!

7) TIMING - Criminal cases take time to thoroughly investigate...time that (according to many who know) we simply
do not have! When you have a group of people who are actively working at bringing about Armageddon (and wanting it quickly) you don't have the luxury of taking your time - you need to act quickly!

As a Christian, I am taught that Islam is a "cult" - not the true religion. As a thinking person who has read the Koran, I understand what the book teaches (this is the topic of another post). Given what I know about Islam and what Dr. Tefft's organization has shown us, we know that the right thing is to treat this as the war it is and not a criminal matter. Which is why John Kerry was wrong for America 2 years ago and why Coleen Rowley is wrong for the 2nd Congressional District today!

Monday, May 15, 2006

What staying home in November will get you part 2

Earlier I posted this opinion on what will happen if conservative voters stayed home in November in order to "punish" politicians that they deem to be "not conservative enough". Well, Jim Geraughty over at NRO's TKS blog has this insightful take on the subject.

"Who are the Republican lawmakers most angering the conservative base? Well, let’s say Sens. Trent “I’m tired of hearing about Porkbusters” Lott, Ted “Bridge to Nowhere” Stevens, John McCain for cosponsoring Kennedy’s immigration bill and campaign finance reform, Arlen Specter for being a pain in the tushie over judges, Chuck Hagel for being the New York Times’ favorite Republican senator to criticize Bush, and other minimally-conservative Republicans like Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. Well, they’re not going to lose in 2006. Most of ‘em aren’t even up for reelection this year."

True enough Jim however I would add one more to that list...President George W. Bush! Now,.what about those that ARE up for election in 2006.

"In the Senate, a bad year for the Republicans would mean the loss of Rick Santorum (who has lifetime American Conservative Union rating of 88 out of a possible 100, and a 92 in 2005) in Pennsylvania, Jim Talent (93 rating lifetime, and a 96 in 2005) in Missouri, Conrad Burns (91, and a perfect 100 in 2005) in Montana and Mike DeWine (80 lifetime, only 56 in 2005) in Ohio. Of course, Ohio voters who sit this one out will replace DeWine with Sherrod Brown, who has a lifetime rating of 8 and 4 for 2005. And they won’t get to revisit that decision until 2012.
If the GOP base doesn’t show up in Minnesota, you get Amy Klobuchar instead of Mark Kennedy (90 rating lifetime, 84 in 2005).
If the GOP base doesn’t show in Maryland, you get Ben Cardin (lifetime rating of 6, 2005 rating of 0!) or Kweise Mfume (lifetime ACU rating of 4) instead of Michael Steele.
If the GOP base doesn’t show in Tennessee, you get Harold Ford (19 lifetime, 21 in 2005) instead of Ed Bryant (lifetime ACU score of 98!) Van Hilleary (lifetime score of 97!). Another GOP candidate is Bob Corker, Chattanooga mayor.
If the GOP base doesn't show in West Virginia, you get Robert Byrd (lifetime rating of 30, 20 in 2005) as Appropriations Committee Chairman, instead of businessman John Raese.
If the GOP base doesn't show in Washington, you keep Maria Cantwell (11 lifetime, 8 in 2005) instead of businessman Mike McGavick.
Okay, maybe Chafee goes down. But you've lost how many solid conservatives to remove this one guy?"

Along that logic, I have this question for my Minnesota readers (and the Logical Husband and Amendment X)...ok, maybe Governor Pawlenty goes down but how many solid conservatives (John Kline, Mark Kennedy, Michelle Bachmann etc) do you take out to get that one person? Punishing these people will leave us with the very same people who are the source of our dis-satisfaction - Trent Lott, Arlen Specter, Olympia Snow, John McCain, Chuck Hagel and Susan Collins! Is that what you really want to accomplish?

That's ok, you say...once they learn their 2006 lesson they will be back in the fold for 2008 and then we can take back over! Well consider some of the things that could happen between now and then...


"what kind of lengths do you think the Democrats will go to in order to keep power once they’ve got it? Does the “Fairness Doctrine” ring a bell? You think Pelosi and Reid wouldn’t try that tactic to hinder conservative talk radio? How about McCain-Feingold 2.0, with a particular focus on controlling “unregulated speech” on the Internet and blogs?
Think the MSM was cheerleading for Democrats in 2004? How much more fair and balanced do you think they’ll be when their task is to defend Democratic House and Senate majorities AND elect President Hillary Rodham Clinton? My guess is, they’ll make the CBS memo story look accurate and evenhanded by comparison.
Think the GOP can prevail in close races once they’re out of power? Ask the members of the military who had their ballots in Florida blocked. Ask Doug Forrester how well his anti-Torricelli campaign worked when he suddenly faced Frank Lautenberg at the last minute. Ask Dino Rossi. Ask Democrat Tim Johnson if he’s glad the last county in South Dakota to report its results just happened to have enough of a Democratic margin to put him over the top in 2002.
Once the Democrats regain control of Congress, a GOP takeover is going to be exponentially harder than it was in 1994. You’re never going to catch the Democrats as flatfooted again."

The Logical Husband has long complained about the Republican Party's uncanny ability to shoot itself in the foot at the most in-opportune times. Yet here we are, conservative voters who are more than willing to shoot ourselves in the foot in order to punish an unresponsive leadership. What kind of logic is that?

As I said before, I understand and share your frustration with those in DC who are deaf to the needs of the American people and only care about how it will get them re-elected! I understand the need to get more conservatives into DC (and St Paul), but sitting home in November is NOT the answer! You want to hold Governor Pawlenty accountable for his pandering to the middle? Get busy and help get a true conservative Majority in the State House and Senate. Ditto DC...you want to hold Lott, McCain, Graham and the rest of the RINO's accountable? Work hard to get true conservatives elected in Minnesota, Washington State and Tennesee! As Captain Ed said - not one dime to the RNC/MNGOP.....only give to the Conservative candidates who are willing to do what is best for the PEOPLE in DC and in St Paul!

SB1437

The title of the bill is innocuous enough. SB 1437, entitled "School Instruction: Prohibition of Discriminatory Content" passed in the California Senate easily enough last week. However, the content of the bill should frighten any Christian with a child in the public school system.

"This bill would revise the statutes prohibiting textbooks and other instructional material from containing material adverse to persons based on race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, or handicap, and add sexual orientation to this list of characteristics. These changes would make the statutes consistent with other statutes prohibiting discrimination based on specified personal characteristics, such as the Fair Employment and Housing Act and the Unruh Civil Rights Act."

Under the heading "Need for the Bill" comes this explaination on why the bill is needed.

"The absence from our curriculum of positive images of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and their many contributions to California and the United States is a disservice to all children."

The question I have for the gay activists is this....WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES A PERSON'S SEXUAL ORIENTATION MAKE? When my child is studying American history, what difference does it make if George Washington was gay, straight or otherwise? I thought we were not supposed to judge people by their race, creed, color etc? But isn't that exactly what you are asking us to do? Judge these people by their sexual orientation?????

Dennis Prager asked (on his program today) why not mention the contributions of those who were married or single, by religion, whether they had children or not...and what about the bad guys? Do we want to know if Timothy McVeigh or Jeffrey Dahmer were gay or straight? How about Al Capone - do we list his ethnicity or his marital status? The bottom line is this - it is no longer good enough to be an American...you have to be a American!


Now apparently Governor Schwarzenegger has vowed to veto this bill should it clear both the California House and Senate. If that is the case, one wonders if the California Senate is sincere about the bill or if they are passing this just to mollify their base.

Candidate Profiles in the media

Michael over at MDE has been running a series of posts on some of the more outrageous things that Keith Ellison, DFL endorsed candidate for Congress in the 5th Congressional District, has said in the past and on some of the outrageous things that people he has been close to have said. Compare some of these quotes to the profile on Mr. Ellison that the Star Tribune printed today.

Now I fully understand that a lot of these quotes are single lines and that context is missing and those who have debated Scripture with me will know I am a stickler for context. However, a person is judged by the company he/she keeps and if this is the company that Mr. Ellison keeps, the 5th CD is in trouble.

It will be interesting to see what the profiles of Mr. Ellison's opponents look like. These are scheduled to print on the next couple of Tuesdays. I will definately be researching the others while waiting for their profiles to be published.

The deeper and subtle meaning.

James Lileks translates the recent letter to GWB from the President of Iran and finds the true intent of President Ahmadinejad :
Dear Infidel Crusader Zionist sock-puppet Saudi-lackey depoiler of Mesopotamia woman-touching pigdog fiendish (293 words excised) Shah-licking son of a toad’s offal: I trust this finds you well. I have much on my mind, and have taken the pen to unburden my breast. I have enclosed a self-addressed stamped envelope should you wish to reply.

(429 words concerning Jewish penetration of the Postal System excised)

. . . Do you not realize you are beaten, as a donkey is beaten, but knoweth not his donkeyhood is cursed? Your comics have turned against you in your own lair, and mock you without mercy. We have seen the videos of the Meal of the Correspondents, and we know how your left regards the men of the laugh as prophets and seers. It is only a matter of time before Johnny Carson (applause be upon him) returns from occlusion to request that you, Mr. President, take the Slauson cutoff, get out of your car, and cut off your Slauson, Hi-yo, salaam. And a third part of the Slauson shall be stained with the tears of the womenfolk, and (9323 words excised)

(From Cox and Forkum)

And it's ALWAYS unintended consequences!

And what was that quote from Ringo Starr-"Everything government touches turns to crap!" And demoncrats and RINO's obviously think we enoy crap. Seems that most of us also enjoy crap in wholesale amounts as we keep returning these same people to power.
And now, we have the New and Improved Immigration Bill that will ensure more immigrants. Double the number in fact.
Yup. Sow and reap. Vote for lefties and lefty lites and we get all this. And more.
Lucy,Charlie Brown and a football.
Pogo was right:"We have met the enemy...and he is us."

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Imperial Hubris

I can guarantee you that Hugh Hewitt will be talking and writing about this tomorrow!

"It is worth considering, moreover, that only newspapers have the will, resources and venues in which this sort of journalism can be accomplished on readers' behalf. To an extent too little discussed, the future of the news media is the future of American democracy."

Only newspapers have the "will, resources and venues" to do this. What arrogance! How typical of newspapers who feel that they are the only ones who "know stuff"!

I suspect that Hugh will be talking about this because the author, Tim Ruttan, has been taking many potshots at Hugh lately and this article is not lacking potshots.

"More interesting yet is the way in which these commentators' worldview has slipped unexamined into the currents of the mainstream. Because their own motives are wholly partisan, they assume that everyone else doing journalism is similarly inclined. "

Yep....Hugh's show tomorrow night is going to be entertaining, to say the least!

Crime and Punishment?

Rambix over at Rambix and the Red Star has done yeomans work documenting the breakdown of order in Amy Klobuchar's Minneapolis*. The following has all of the earmarks of one of his posts, but it's not.

"Mario Moreno should still have been behind bars the night he climbed into the passenger seat of a stolen car with two fellow gang members.He was carrying a rifle, some cartridges and, in his jacket pocket, a bag of marijuana. "Let's go do this," the car's driver recalled Moreno saying as they headed into the turf of a rival black gang.

They drove by a liquor store at 89th Street and Central Avenue in South Los Angeles. Two older black men were standing outside.Moreno, 18, aimed his weapon out the driver's-side window and fired. One bullet killed Darrell Dennard, 53, a grandfather who slept in an alley behind a nearby fish market and got by doing odd jobs. He had just bought a lottery ticket. It was about 9 p.m. on Oct. 11, 2004."

This is from the Los Angeles Times today. Yahoo has this take on the story! Los Angeles officials are finally coming to the realization of a fact that many law enforcement officials have been trying to tell them for a long time...that catch and release - while fine for fishing - does not work well in law enforcement.

"City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said. "I think criminals have learned from this that there is a way to beat the system. ... For many, a few days in jail has become just a cost of doing business."

Rambix has documented how a large portion of offenders in Amy Klobuchar's Minneapolis* are also repeat offenders. If this is how Amy Klobuchar protects Hennepin County*, you have to wonder just how well she will do her job should she get elected to the Senate. However, KennedyVMachine gives you a hint about what she will do once she goes to DC...she will be fundraising and getting ready to run for her next elected position! Surely Minnesota deserves better than that...

* Hennepin County Attorneys Office Mission Statement - To protect the rights and safety of the people of Hennepin County.

The erosion and the landslide

One of the most subtle principles in the pursuit of liberty, freedom and a constitutional republic, which we used to have, are property rights. Frederic Bastiat, in his excellent tome "The Law" takes and proves the point that private property is a direct extension of life:

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.
But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. This process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.
Life, faculties, production—in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

From this premise, Bastiat goes on to prove that government is formed to protect the rights of each individual. That when government starts to recognize groups, then there are no longer individual rights, but group priviledges. And at that point, you have groups that raise up to either ensure that their interests are protected or to take more from another group. And we have the descent into democracy where the majority rules over the minority, or sometimes vice versa, and the subtle, and sometimes not so subtle erosion of your individual rights. And consequently property rights. Eminent domain is the hot property rights topic. And how did we get to that point? Slowly, easily... and steadily. What would have resulted in riots a century ago is now regarded as business as usual. When your land can not be developed, when you When your money is forcibly taken from you via taxes, you have had your time, your effort and your property taken from you. And on a larger scale, we have the disaster that the collectivists have forced on General Motors. And on a large scale, what you see happening to General Motors mirrors perfectly the state of the American dependency state (Katrina and the socialist, leftwing hellhole disaster called New Orleans as prima facie evidence). And it comes back to you. You are going to pay for it. All of it. Every penny. How do I know? From my radical lefty friend who admits that the unfunded liability of Social Security and Medicare exists. But he claims it's ONLY $20,000,000,000,000 (not the $60,000,000,000,000-$80,000,000,000,000 that reputable economists tell). And this leftist's solution to the problem? After much thought and reflection and many calculations? A 100% inheritance tax. Total estate confiscation (BTW, the elimination of all inheritance laws is one of the ten points of the Communist Manifesto .I'd also recommend reading down the article and comparing the ten points with the Democratic party platform. Also read how a goodly portion of the ten points has already been implemented). When the WWII generation dies, the government takes all their money. He tries to throw you off the trail by calling it "their childrens' money". So what? It's still someone elses money. NOT the government's.

General Motors doesn't have the force of law behind it to force it's customers to buy it's cars and trucks to pay the huge burden of obligations that have been forced on it by it's unions and with the collboration of the government. Government DOES have the force of law to force YOU to pay for it's follies.

Now, what are you going to do about it?