Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Understanding the Auto Bailout


To understand the Auto Bailout start first at the far right, then read from the middle, then read from the left. The mainstream media hugely influences our collective consciousness, and we feel fairly informed while the rest of the world tries to understand our apparent complacency.  There is an established relationship between the mainstream media and the conservative pipeline. I think the right wing pitch is easier to digest than union worker, Gregg Shotwell, or economist Max Keiser's explanations.  We are prevented from fully grasping the facts because they are so complex. What infiltrates instead are the easy bite size non-facts. Now is the time to try and understand the Auto Bailout. As Dennis Kucinich stated during the congressional hearings regarding the Wall Street Bailout...they should have occurred before rather than after.

Rush and Fox
Rush says Stand up on the Auto Bailout GOP! Fox News says: The Auto Bailout, Too Risky An Investment (These are the messages that get planted in our basic understanding. And this is about as informed as most of the middle class gets. But keep reading.)

New York Times and Max Keiser
In Playing Politics With the Auto Bailout Barry Moskowitz posits in a letter to the editor of the New York Times: "The Senate Republicans’ rejection of a bailout for America’s Big Three automakers confirms a suspicion that many working- and middle-class Americans already had — Republicans care little for the majority of citizens who suffer from economic crises." In program 1006 The Truth About Markets December 13 Max Keiser says: "auto represents workers and savers and the banks represent borrowers and speculators."

Michael Moore
In Senate to the Middle Class: Drop Dead Moore says: "Of course that is heresy to the 31 Republicans who decided to blame the poor, miserable autoworkers for this mess. And our wonderful media complied with their spin on the morning news shows: 'UAW Refuses to Give Concessions Killing Auto Bailout Bill.'"

In Democracy Now! Gregg Shotwell, union activist and writer who worked at GM for thirty years remarks "If they let these auto companies go bankrupt, it's going to turn this recession into a depression. I'm shocked that they're even contemplating this. There's no such thing as an orderly bankruptcy. You know, millions of people would be affected."



"At the beginning of any revolution is media reform" Max Keiser
"We the public are burdened with a poorly informing US media" Al Giordano