Has Lee Iacocca, former CEO of Chrysler, who 5 years ago started building electric cars, become a spokesman for the American Left?
In Where Have All the Leaders Gone? posted on Depression 2 and referenced on the Daily Kos, Iacocca thunders against the mistakes of the Bush Administration, the “do nothing Congress” in session 97 days in 2006 (hey that’s more than 1 day out of 4), the media which sees no evil, speaks no evil, and hears no evil, and the citizens who work, watch tv, and hope they don’t get sick cause of the medical insurance situation.
Excerpt: Where Have All the Leaders Gone? By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney
“Had Enough? Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, “Stay the course.” Stay the course? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I’ll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out! You might think I’m getting senile, that I’ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don’t need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we’re fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That’s not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for.”
What’s next? Will Jack Welch build wind turbines? Will an oil company build solar panels? (Wait a minute GE is building wind turbines and is using Donovan’s “Catch the Wind” to advertise them. British Petroleum is building solar panels. I can feel the paradigm shifting.)