Call It Like It Is

Trading the GM Bankruptcy

What a misdirected bunch of hot air. Get a life!!


On May 25 11:49 PM Scott Croly wrote:

> All you sinecured staff house bankers banging down the line, field
> and street dynamic in the US jurisdiction had better get over yourselves,
> NOW!!! Check it out: with N. Korea's Memorial Day weekend several
> kiloton heavy metal refined U238 fission maelstorm, y'all still beg
> the question: "Who ya gonna call, ghostbusters?!?" I mean, "free"
> trade and "free" markets are great, but I am still reminded of President
> McKinley's great statement of the late 19th century, directly prior
> to taking on the Spaniards in Cuba, to maintain reality in the Monroe
> Doctrine: "Why buy where you pay the cheapest; buy where you pay
> the easiest." In spite of the 2005 HP CEO harpy shriek: "There is
> no God-given right to an American job -- we're gonna right-shore
> your jobs," all this fully two years after USA DOD went into the
> Middle East and the mountains above South Asia to protect her corporation's,
> among others, subcontractors in the subcontinent, the SW flank of
> our major creditor, and bankers' trading routes -- see, kids, and
> you ARE kids -- none of you has done an honest day's labor in your
> whole stinkin' lives, it is so obvious from your ill-informed, coddled,
> protected perception of the world and the universe, here's how it
> works: event risk is alive and well, and I do not mean economic or
> fixed nominal micro-market event risk. There are those who take this
> on under the basis of duty, honor, country; nevertheless, let me
> assure you very quickly, though to a greater or lesser extent, it
> is always still somewhat in this following manner, at this point
> in the cycle, it is downright flagrant after all you TARP fund baby
> bubblers and baby boomer bubblers have been, at least to an unreasonable
> degree at this point in the cycle, given how badly you have crashed
> the ship of state up on the rocks, it is NOT, after all, duty, honor,
> AIG, GS, MACD, HAL, et al... You, in the sinecured house staff, had
> better hope that some semblance of a USA in-country equity production
> base, consumer discretionary, unit transportation modality, half-UCC
> encompassing corporate and working/earning/producing dynamic succeeds....
> (hint: you are doomed without it). And of course it will work, without
> y'all deliberate subversion; after all, if USA DOD personnel deploy
> halfway around the world in-zone, at considerable personal risk,
> and sometimes ultimate and tragic sacrifice, of course this dynamic
> in-country USA working/earnings/produ... model will succeed -- at
> least with less house-staff sinecure subversion, that is! The vast
> majority of you out there who disparage working Americans, while
> you wave your Made in Taiwan American flags from your vicarious warrior
> armchairs and front under-the-table paid for swiftboaters on the
> jurisdiction, you need to take heed very quickly now: "You had your
> day, you had your play, now you got to pay, then go away." "Step
> up and take personal responsibility." "Love it or leave it, then
> beat it!" Line and field workers and enlisted personnel are NOT the
> cause of current unbearable cost of "production" (really y'all consumption/extraction,
> dievestment [sic] (spell it right, now!) burden of the four component
> price model; indeed, it is the static arbitrage gratuity on the equity
> side of the ledger that has subverted current US jurisdictional social
> and economic security, stability and safety. Again: "Step up and
> take personal responsibility; it happened on your watch." Your protectionist
> mandate using US citizen life and limb with treasure thereafter to
> protect what y'all coddled sinecured house staff incompetents and
> subversives grotesquely and gratuitously perceive as "free" (A. Smith
> pillowed redux) is worse than a joke; it is downright subversive
> and anti-American.