#10: General Motors

While I realize the thousands of people employed by "General Motors" will surely miss GM, let's hope many of them were nearing retirement age anyway.

And with Obama now finally putting his foot down (the mouth) of these over-eager, destructive companies, the future for GM gets darker by the hour. (Wagoner will be fine with his $20 million pension, btw).

Here's the thing with GM post-Bush. While 43 and his army of gas and oil cronies spent 8 years trying to corral the world oil through false flag operations and fake pretensions for war, they neglected to believe in one thing: American ingenuity.

The right-wing of American politics seems to think American companies cannot survive change. If they regulated fuel economy, GM would sink. If they mandated new fuel technology, GM would sink. If they dictated for a greener economy, GM would sink.

The thing they miss is: American companies are the best in the world at dealing with change. They are huge fish in an economy built to change. It can easily be said that companies must change or die. Change is a mandate for growth. So why didn't they believe in our home-grown companies while Toyota, Honda and the rest of the world was working toward cleaner cars? Why didn't they place even a modicum of faith in American enterprise?

I'm not one to blame Bush for everything (just nearly everything) but this one is clearly on him. Had he and his oil-rich friends saw the clear writing on the wall and forced Detroit to deal with ecological catastrophe, GM would not be on this blog.

But he didn't and they are.