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GM (Government Motors) Not on the “Buy American” Bandwagon

A federal bankruptcy judge granted General Motors Co. permission Wednesday to cut ties with the Stillwater Mining Co. (Columbus/Billings,MT) so it can instead use cheaper foreign suppliers.

We should all consider buying American vehicles, remember this if GM is on your list of choices. They want you to buy American but it doesn’t apply to them. It looks as though this will cost hundreds of jobs just outside Billings, MT.

FYI – Stillwater and Ford are still doing business together.

A federal bankruptcy judge granted General Motors Co. permission Wednesday to cut ties with the Stillwater Mining Co. so it can instead use cheaper foreign suppliers.

The cancellation of the Stillwater contract was approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber in New York following a hearing. No appeal is planned, said Stillwater spokesman John Beaudry. He said the only recourse could be through the Obama administration’s auto task force, which so far has not responded to calls for pressure on GM’s management.

Meanwhile, Montana’s U.S. senators called the move “appalling” for a taxpayer-subsidized company and asked GM to reconsider.

GM backed out of its arrangement with Stillwater and canceled dozens of other contracts to slim down expenses and emerge from federal bankruptcy protection.

It will keep using precious-metals suppliers based in Russia and South Africa – drawing criticism that the government bailout of the automaker is in effect subsidizing overseas mining jobs.

Stillwater itself is majority owned by one of GM’s remaining suppliers, Norilsk Nickel of Russia. Stillwater’s Montana executives said they’ll lose up to $10 million annually without GM – a figure that they warned could turn into hundreds of jobs lost if metals prices drop.

“GM was left with no other decision,” said GM spokesman Dan Flores. “Our biggest focus is to repay our federal loan as quickly as we can.”

Montana’s elected officials piled on.

“I can remember when GM wanted everyone to buy American. Perhaps it and its new owners in Washington should take their own advice,” said the state’s sole House member, Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg.

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Politicians, Heal Thyselves!

The government should stay out of health care or they should be forced to swallow the same pill that they force down our throats. They ruin everything they touch! They have already wrecked the Post Office, the Railroads, the Steel Industry, the Tobacco Industry, the US borders, Social Security, Medicare, America’s Energy Independence….and on and on. Now they want to destroy the greatest medical system in the history of human existence.

Don’t let the gangsters in Washington make medical decisions for you and your children.

Health Reform: If Democrats in Washington think their health care reform with a public option is a good thing, why have they exempted themselves from it? Why isn’t what’s good for their constituents good for them?

During ABC’s June 24 infomercial for government-run health care broadcast from the White House, President Obama was asked if he and his family would abide by the restrictions and limitations that came with his proposed reforms.

In what Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com called “Obama’s Michael Dukakis moment,” President Obama refused to make such a pledge and confessed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.”

There was no commentary about evil insurance companies making excessive profits or greedy physicians and hospitals doing unnecessary tests and procedures to run up your bill.

There was only a dutiful husband and father wanting the best care for his wife and children, as do we all.

Yet here was the president arguing for the need for 50 million new patients officially in the system while adding no new doctors, a plan that inevitably leads to rationing.

Add to this situation doctors who will retire in droves and doctors who never will be, all to avoid a clone of Britain’s draconian National Health Service.

Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center who asked Obama that question, says elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it’s not provided by insurance.

Congress is no exception.

As World Net Daily points out, on Page 114 of the Orwellian-titled Affordable Health Care Choices Act authored by Sen. Ted Kennedy’s staff and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), there is a provision that specifically exempts members of Congress from the public plan.

At a news conference June 23, President Obama said people would be able to choose their insurance “the same way that federal employees do, same way that members of Congress do.”

That statement was false.

Rep. John Fleming, R-La., a physician, told Fox News: “All these health care bills that are coming out on the Democrats’ side — the ‘reform’ bills — basically say that Congress is exempt for at least the first five years, and perhaps longer.

“I’ve issued H. Res. 615 that simply says, look, if you vote for this, then you should choose it.”

House Resolution 615, which is nonbinding, says “members who vote in favor of the establishment of a public, federal government run health insurance option are urged to forgo their right to participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and agree to enroll under that public option.”

On July 16, Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., went further and offered an amendment to the House version during the Ways and Means Committee markup that would require members of Congress to enroll in its own government-run health care program.

Democrats defeated the amendment, 23 to 18.

The irony here is that under the health reform he is sponsoring, it is unlikely that Sen. Ted Kennedy would have gotten the treatment he needed for his brain tumor if his case had to be reviewed by some cost-effectiveness board.

The likelihood is that if Ted Kennedy were British and subject to the tender mercies of that nation’s National Health System, he’d be dead by now.

As Fleming says, his resolution offers “members of Congress an opportunity to put their money where their mouth is.”

Congressmen, heal thyselves.

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The Ten Commandments According to Obama

After observing Obama on the campaign trail and during his first six months in office, we have concluded that our President lives and governs according to his own set of “Ten Commandments.” They’re certainly NOT the Ten Commandments you learned in Sunday School. In fact, many are the direct opposite! To prove that our conclusions are correct, you will find a link to source documentation for each commandment on the Patriot Update web site.

I. Thou shalt have no God in America, except for me. For we are no longer a Christian nation and, after all, I am the chosen One. (And like God, I do not have a birth certificate.) SOURCE

II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, unless it is my face carved on Mt. Rushmore. SOURCE

III. Thou shalt not utter my middle name in vain (or in public). Only I can say Barack Hussein Obama. SOURCE

IV. Remember tax day, April 15th, to keep it holy. SOURCE

V. Honour thy father and thy mother until they are too old and sick to care for. They will cost our public-funded health-care system too much money. SOURCE

VI. Thou shalt not kill, unless you have an unwanted, unborn baby. For it would be an abomination to punish your daughter with a baby. SOURCE

VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery if you are conservative or a Republican. Liberals and Democrats are hereby forgiven for all of their infidelity and immorality, but the careers of conservatives will be forever destroyed. SOURCE

VIII. Thou shalt not steal, until you’ve been elected to public office. Only then is it acceptable to take money from hard-working, successful citizens and give it to those who do not work, illegal immigrants, or those who do not have the motivation to better their own lives. SOURCE

IX. Thou shalt not discriminate against thy neighbor unless they are conservative, Caucasian, or Christian.SOURCE

X. Thou shalt not covet because it is simply unnecessary. I will place such a heavy tax burden on those that have achieved the American Dream that, by the end of my term as President, nobody will have any wealth or material goods left for you to covet. SOURCE

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