why I should stop listening to hate radio

In the last couple couple of weeks I have heard the enemies of America spewing their drivel over the airwaves in typical fashion, so much that I can't really recount all their obscenities.

Thank God they have the protected freedom of speech, which does mean speech to rail against the government, that's all well and good, but I still can't help feeling that these people are not trying to improve the country, but rather, attempting to destroy it for their own selfish gain.

There are actually two main points that I heard that I must present here as interest:

Sean Hannity in a conversation with Juan Ferrero, actually stated that the reason why GM is having trouble is because of the intrusion of the government. Hannity said that government-mandated safety standards caused them to make cars too expensive to sell.

Basically, he says that seatbelts killed GM.

I could rail about that for hours, about its completely asinine level of stupidity, but here's another, heard just yesterday:

Don't know his name, but he's another of the hate radio DJs, and he claimed that the
"greedy unions with their health care and pension plans" tacked $2k to the price of every GM car.

Now, I know some of you out there probably agree with this statement, because unions have been vilified in the past decades, and rightly so on many counts, because the unions, while originally started in order to address and correct the enslavement of the worker by the corporations, have themselves degenerated into a comical parody of the bosses that they used to rail against.

However, this man's statement brings up the argument that healthcare and retirement have killed General Motors.

Excuse me? Providing health care and some semblance of a decent retirement is a noble and lofty goal, and for many years this country acheived it admirably. To say anything different is spitting in the face of what truly makes America great, which is the dream of living a good life. Health care and retirement aren't services that the greedy sacks of corporations decided to bestow upon workers out of benevolence and compassion: they were hard-won benefits, and a fitting reward for years of good service to these companies. It's not the companies that made the companies great - it was the workers who made the companies great, so don't anyone DARE say that providing them a little bit to live on after retirement and some health care for their families is what killed the auto manufacturer.

(as a sidenote to all business owners out there who might buy into that false idea: you should know that if you keep your workers healthy - with paid medical care, especially PREVENTIVE - you'll get more work out of them . . . they'll be on the job and not home sick)

Nope - Hannity and the other guy are simply wrong, as are all their conservative ilk. Simply put, they are socially and morally wrong.

Juan Ferrero said it best in his reply to Hannity for the safety standard comment: GM failed because it simply made poor quality cars.

Period!

At that point in the interview, Hannity actually stumbled, just for a brief second, and conceded the point that they might have made some cars not of total quality, then he hurriedly corrected himself to state that he always buys American to support American workers.

So . . . he buys inferior quality to support the American worker who puts in the seatbelt and uses the health care that killed the company that made the cars.

Hm.

Point to ponder.


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