Friday, May 27, 2011

NEW RULE IMPOSED ON DEMOCRATS: YOU CAN'T SUPPORT AN INDUSTRY'S EXISTENCE IF YOU'RE NOT A CUSTOMER PERSONALLY

Yeah, I guess I understand why right-wingers would make hay out of this, but a little perspective, please:

... Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chairwoman of the DNC, ripped into Republican presidential contenders who opposed President Obama's 2009 bailouts for General Motors and Chrysler.

"If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars; they would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes," she said at a breakfast for reporters organized by
The Christian Science Monitor.

But according to Florida motor vehicle records, the Wasserman Schultz household owns a 2010 Infiniti FX35, a Japanese car whose parent company is Nissan, another Japanese company....

The policy she supports, of course, is not a government mandate that everyone who owns a car has to buy an American one -- the policy she supports is that U.S.-based auto companies should continue to exist, and employ people.

Now, over the years a lot of right-wingers have offered a lot of support for Walmart, as it's faced liberal criticism. Anyone ever check to see whether those Walmart advocates actually shop there? Especially the rich ones?

George Will? John Stossel? Neil Cavuto? Sean Hannity? You folks really shop there? Shouldn't you have to in order to stick up for it?

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