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To: tejek who wrote (489417)	6/20/2009 2:08:20 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578283

Obama is also planning to invent new technologies that the dumb old auto engineers haven't been working on fast enough. (From a senior level Chrysler person) Monday morning I attended a breakfast meeting where the speaker/guest was David E. Cole, Chairman Center for Automotive Research (CAR). You have all likely heard CAR quoted, or referred to in the auto industry news lately. Mr. Cole, who is an engineer by training, told many stories of the difficulty of working with the folks that the Obama administration has sent to save the auto industry. There have been many meetings where a 30+ year experience automotive expert has to listen to a newcomer to the industry, someone with zero manufacturing experience, zero auto industry experience, zero business experience, zero finance experience, and zero engineering experience, tell them how to run their business. My favorite story is as follows: There was a team of Obama people speaking to Mr. Cole (Engineer,automotive experience 40+ years, Chairman of CAR). They were explaining to Mr. Cole that the auto companies needed to make a car that was electric and liquid natural gas (LNG) with enough combined fuel to go 500 miles so we wouldn't "need" so many gas stations (A whole other topic). They were quoting BTU's of LNG and battery life that they had looked up on some website. Mr. Cole explained that to do this you would need a trunk FULL of batteries and a LNG tank at big as a car to make that happen and that there were problems related to the laws of physics that prevented them from... The Obama person interrupted and said (and I am quoting here) "These laws of physics? Who's rules are those, we need to change that. (Some of the others wrote down the law name so they could look it up) We have the congress and the administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or use an executive order to get rid of that problem. That's why we are here, to fix these sort of issues".

To: tejek who wrote (489417)	6/20/2009 2:18:25 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578283

Naragon did the leg-work on this to lay out both Boxer’s ‘hard work’ up against Brig. General Walsh’s hard work in “earning” their titles. You be the judge: Barbara Boxer: After graduating from Brooklyn College, she worked as a stock broker for three years. That concludes her time spent in the private sector. She edited a newspaper for three years before going into public service, starting out as a congressional aide before running for local office. She then served as a Democratic delegate for California and used her contacts to become a congressional candidate, winning five straight elections to the House. In 1992, not content to restrain her lunacy to the House, she ran for Senate, winning in 1992, 1998, and 2004. She will be up for election once again in 2010, and there is little doubt that the people of California, who apparently have become accustomed to incompetent leadership (i.e. Pelosi, Schwarzenegger, etc.), will send her back to Washington. So her “hard work” story is very similar to most politicians in Washington these days: a seemingly endless pursuit of power that doesn’t really reward personal accomplishments or skills, unless you include kissing up, spending taxpayer money, and returning pork projects to one’s state. Brigadier General Michael Walsh: Both Boxer and Walsh were born in Brooklyn. Walsh went to school in New York, as well, though perhaps not as prestigious a school as Brooklyn College. He only managed to graduate from Polytechnic Institute of New York, gaining a degree in civil engineering. Walsh has also earned a master’s degree in construction management from the University of Florida, proving that he can succeed in places other than New York, California, and Washington. While in the military, he graduated from Engineer Officers Basic and Advanced Courses, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the U.S. Army War College. After a lengthy history of moves up the military ladder, Walsh was named Commander for the Army Engineer Corps’ Gulf Region Division in Iraq, moving back to the States when he was appointed Commander of the Mississippi Valley Division, Vicksburg, MS, by then-President George W. Bush in 2008. His current job puts him in charge of a $7.5 billion public works program. The boundaries of the Mississippi Valley Division extend from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, include portions of 12 states, and encompass 370,000 square miles. He also was named Commander of Task Force Hope. infidelsparadise.wordpress.com