Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 30, 2009

It?s no exaggeration to say that a shift manager at the typical fast food restaurant has more business acumen and practical managerial skill than Barack Obama. Yet he now presumes to make top-level corporate personnel decisions at General Motors.

GM is on the brink of bankruptcy. Its market share has consistently eroded even as its labor costs ? particularly union-imposed ?legacy costs? for health care and other benefits ? have soared. Along with other ailing US automakers, GM has been on taxpayer life-support.

The company has asked for, and received, promises that the Obama administration will provide it with additional taxpayer aid. However, as a condition Mr. Obama demanded the resignation of GM?s Chairman and CEO, Rick Wagoner.

GM has lost scores of billions under Wagoner?s leadership. Obama?s budgets, however, anticipate deficits running into the trillions. Presumably he will bring that same touch to the management of GM and the other major corporations he plans to nationalize.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.