Chevy Volt a Failure - GM to Layoff 1,300

There is no logical fallacy, because even though I characterized them as foofs, I didn't do it in the absence of an actual argument. It would be an ad hominem attack, for example, if I said, "The state department doesn't know what it is doing because it is run by a bunch of foofs." And left it at that.

What I said was that we are a country that has run up $16 million in debt and they are having parties to show off how "green" they are. Take out the word "foofs," and the argument is still there.

 

That is not true. Our country has been running an annual budget deficit of more than a trillion dollars. Our accumulated debt is $16 trillion. It is just a factual statement, if I say that ANY government spending contributes to those deficits and has contributed to that overall debt (it is government caused debt!) -- even without the obvious proposition that we are spending way more than necessary on Volts relative to much cheaper cars (and that doesn't include the obvious -- that GM will contribute a minimum of $25 billion to our national debt when all is said and done, which is certainly part of the backdrop behind why our government is propping up Volt sales with government contracts), and it is for for politicized reasons. But take out that proposition, if you really want to deny what is a common sense assertion, and the fact still remains that we will have a budget deficit of at least $1.3 trillion this year and any cars, chargers and parties that the State Department throws money around for is a contributor.

 

It was a "Look at how green we are" party. Go to the website with the write up and click on the video of the interview with Al Gore virtually masturbating over the whole thing. If this is one of the purposes of our diplomatic missions, I'd personally say, "Move over Big Bird, you're fucking essential in comparison."

Meanwhile, we edge closer to a financial cliff every day, with another one of those ridiculous debt ceiling crises going to paralyze the country in December, which is going to send markets back into turmoil.

 

Wonderful. You are telling me that our government is putting us in more debt to promote the hand-picked company the politicians in power gave a half a billion dollar loan to, which couldn't make a payment on the loan this quarter.

This is the role of our government -- to unfairly put us all in debt to benefit cronies?

I'd personally love a half a billion dollar loan, more money spent (which gets added to our debt) to promote my company, and in return. ... well, I can do like Tesla and not even produce anything or meet any of the promises I have made.

Isn't the idea of promotion to actually boost sales? Would Tesla only have sold 10 or 15 of those Model S cars to date, instead of 135 of them, without the state department acting as its PR firm at the expense of our national debt?

 

By the way... I know you hung that red meat out there because you wanted me to post that.

 

Fair enough, Boom. I overstated my point anyhow.