NEW AMERICAN SPENDING HABITS - A SUGGESTION

Our money - that which is still left after our government chops off what it wants - is our money, the tangible reward for our life energy expenditures. We get to decide how to spend it. Your Ostrich Killer, disgusted with what he's seen transpire over the last year or so, has decided to take action by voting with his slim wallet. The contents of his wallet will go to those businesses which operate without any government 'investment'.

Take the examples of Government Motors (formerly General Motors) and Chrysler. The Federal Government owns substantial part of each of those companies. The Poser in Chief, Barack Hussein Obama, personally fired the CEO of GM. Where in hell was the Constitutional uproar over that? The Federal Government has Board of Directors presence and tight oversight of both those companies, all in the name of protecting taxpayer money (spent to buy those companies so they wouldn't fail and thereby throw thousands of UAW workers out into the street where they belong.)

So using just the examples of GM and Chrysler, your Ostrich Killer will buy neither GM nor Chrysler products. As he does his research, he will find out whether other companies are owned in part by the Federal Government. And he won't buy.

The goal here is to help bring about the demise of any company in which the Federal Government takes any ownership or directorship authority. The touch of the Federal Government should eventually become an automatic kiss of death. Business belongs in the hands of entrepreneurs, not bureaucrats. They need to operate from cash reserves, not taxpayer dollars. They need to produce products that do well in the market place, not products that the government wants to force us to use.

For a broader approach to accomplishing the same thing, your Ostrich Killer will spend no money with any business that voluntarily took TARP money. Period. Real simple. For an outdated but representative discussion of TARP and a list of some recipients, you can check Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARP

Ford Motor Company - A Doomed Holdout

You all remember that Ford, of the 'Big 3' car manufacturers, is the only one who refused to take government bail-out money. Well, unlike the other two (Chrysler and Government Motors), they recently reported a profit.

Government Motors is going to have to puppet-dance to Congress and the Green Fringe's ecowacko market ignoring tunes. They'll turn out cars that only Congress and the brain dead envirowacko lemmings want YOU to drive. Never mind that they drive around in Escalades or fly about the country in their new G5 Grumman luxury business jets because they're important . . .

So Ford is successful. Their head honcho, Alan Mulally, is talented. But there is a problem here, a huge gorilla lurking in the shadows: government. In a fist-fight with government, talent has no chance. Ford is competing for sales with Government Motors and Chrysler, both of which the federal government has billions of dollars of your dollars tied up in. That won't be allowed to continue.

Ford's successes can only come at the expense of Government Motor's and Chrysler's lesser success. You can bet that Congress and Barack Hussein Obama won't let that go on for long. No, since government makes the rules, they can also change them.

So the Ostrich Killer predicts that it won't be long before our government will legislate Ford into either compliance with their agendas or into oblivion. Even if Ford falls into line with the agendas, their days are numbered, because even lacking Congress's telling them how, they will somehow manage to produce superior vehicles which buyers will still buy at the expense of Government Motors and Chrysler. So, ultimately, in the eyes of the wack jobs currently sitting on their padded asses in the halls of Congress and the White House, Ford will ultimately have to go.

RIP, Ford. It's been a great run.