The Obama Americar!

So-o? The bail-out package offered to the US auto industry isn't enough, aye?

Its a matter of what the bailers-out were/are trying to achieve, wouldn'ya-say?

The recently arriving Mack Truck of a weather report for the next 100 to five thousand years has even slowed things down at the big fellas of auto manufacturing - Kenworth, Mack, GM & Ford, & left their ad departments floundering about for a bite which doesn't sound so repentent, while keeping the buying egomaniacs deluded about the NEED for a new vehicle.

Offers in every trunk, advice & suggestions on what the heavy industries might be able to try to stay in business while the planet goes down the gurgler.

Ho-hum! Just another day in the office of Earth Control. I thought I'd take a break after Nov 4 US election, & that the clever fellas on US eastside would be able to congure adequate plans to save the world.

But alas, NO! Stock markets are stabilabilising enough for those left in the top offices to skim a few more unaccounted-for-loans into their briefcases, mainstreet is still ploughing along in the wake of the headstrong agenda-setters, who're frightened shitless about talking true to Americans or Walmart management, & about the very urgent need for the honchos to lean on everyone to reduce their consumption, their demands for comfort in cars, work & play.

Rescue packages as we have seen them, will do NO THING to address the totality of what's coming down the turnpike in terms of climate change & the ensuing failures of the Human species to foresee it, & to adapt-down to minimalist mode.

The spokepersons for the auto companies trumpet Green advances & "commitments" to produce environmentally neutral vehicles by 2000-&-too-late.

The excesses of the past one hundred years are speeding back down highway 61 to write-off millions of jobs, & take-down the lowest 40-to-60% of Americans to abject despair.

Yet GM & Ford just keep-on keepin'-on promising the stars for a few raw materials in a plastic & aluminium piece-of-shit, designed to last little more than five years before it's too expensive to maintain, service or keep. But it keeps the CEO's big salaries perky, the advertising corporations stinking in lies & riches.

Until the vehicles available to buy new are made solely of recycled & replenishable materials, the western social footprint on the planet is going to remain about 10 times more than it should be, & remain explosive in its growth, such that the planet will have few "heavy" resources left to plunder in 100 years, & for that & other reducings the planet will have far fewer Homo Sapiens. NOT A BAD THING A.T.C., but it's going to be sad knowing most of the babes alive today may not live to maturity without enormous grief. Enormous grief.

One major bit of grief is that they are not likely to own their own motorcars.

I say this because as we wind-on-down-the-road, the smarter of us, will become frighteningly aware of the terror each motor vehicle represents to Life on Earth.

Mr Big at Ford might promise pollution-free motorisation in five years, hoping that we never twig to ask about the pre-on-road production costs to the environment of everything involved in manufacturing, resourcing, marketing, freighting, AND flogging the little beasties.

He might hope we never twig to asking about the alround inefficiencies of a society which has been designed around the spacetaking bubaloos, thus reducing free-space of the Earth's habitable surface by upto one-third in cities, towns & rural villages, (adding by no-small-amount to the increases-upon-increase of the price of a piece of land to live-on), with most everything which comes out of our little precious shopping jeeplet being toxic to our own progeny.

No. The motor vehicle industry worldover is yet to face-up to the future.

It will, done Right, be a future of Intelligent use of everything. Where each step in the development & production of any personal item, will positively contribute to remediation of the environment.

Totally unintelligent use of materials & labor to satisfy the insatiable desires of individual egomaniacs IS NOT conducive to a Healthy, Balanced group, ecosystem or planet.

Emphasis is made about the bail-outs NOT being handouts. Like the bailouts for the big property investment corporations, these are loans, presumably to allow the majors to restructure their juggernauts, but mainly to keep jobs.

These bailouts are the proper thing for the government to do, but as they, or the voters have become unwilling part-owners of industry, as with Fannie May & Freddie Mac in real estate, part-owners of corporations indeed industries which have essentially steered themselves, the masses & the environment up-shit-creek, so showing a dangerous paucity of intelligent planning or Conscience for the Public Well-Being, it is a long way past the point of the big-wheels of the industry telling the government or the public what they are going to do to fix things up.

Basicly, the middle, upper & senior levels of management in the auto industry worldover have next-to-NO Credibility in terms of planning what IS best, for their companies or for the future of the Human Race.

The biggest apparent concern of the voices heard in these choppy days of finance & brown-paper-bags, is "jobs, jobs, jobs". That once the people can't get work, they're on the slippery-slope.

I agree that we should all be able to find honest work to support ourselves.

But the point MUST come to each of us, that we are not just shooting ourselves in the foot by working in a job which contributes six-or-ten fold to cultural, &/or environmental degradation, but we've sawing our own & our kids legs off too.

We have mega-industries producing shit, to keep the masses quiet & dulled by false comfort, chained to the bank's sewer-pipe of usury & remnants of prehistoric warlords issuing the lucky debtors with a "death pledge" enough to sacrifice the grandkids for?!

We have both sides of the (US) political equation painting their skin blue as they're interviewed, as much just to remain in the running for the next congressional elections etc, as for seeing at last, the fatal flaws in the unrestrained free market.

We have a consortia in media who demands that the world be gutted by the errant trash of humanity, so the next few generations will never forget the dangers of a christian education & Scottish banking skills.

And we have leaders of every nation tied-up with their own spinmeisters wicked webs, who say that to take hold of the bottomline of Sound Governmentation of the People by Guaranteeing them a Secure Homeland, is risky?

Auto makers have from now forward to answer to the Government, & the Government answers to the People. The People answer to Education. Education about what must be done. Not what might be good for jobs, or about what we can invent to undo the damage another invention has caused.

Education would wake-us-up from the stupor of slave-life to the vigor of freedom from the yoke of workaday life.

Education would fire us with the Knowledge of how it is to be Honourable to our own Clan, suburb, family or Nation, & have us realise that turning our backs on the damage we are now doing to our children's & grandchildren's future, each time we jump in the car, is a truly & shamefully cowardly thing to do.

Education would have us realise how far off-the-track the mainstream car owner lifestyle is, & that it threatens the existence of the Human species.

Etcetera....

More's-a-comin'.............. tomorra!