a curious Yankee in Europe's court » General Motors http://foreignremarks.com/passingcomments Passing Comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:22:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Today’s opinion pick: “We the People” to “King of the World”: “YOU’RE FIRED!” …a letter from Michael Moore http://foreignremarks.com/passingcomments/archives/558 http://foreignremarks.com/passingcomments/archives/558#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:30:24 +0000 rebecca http://foreignremarks.com/passingcomments/?p=558 Academy-award winning filmmaker Michael Moore is astounded and elated by President Obama’s firing earlier this week of the chairman of the giant U.S. automaker General Motors. In a blog post on his website today, Moore wrote that Obama’s stunning, unprecedented action has left me speechless for the past two days.

Two excerpts:

Nothing like it has ever happened. The president of the United States, the elected representative of the people, has just told the head of General Motors—a company that’s spent more years at #1 on the Fortune 500 list than anyone else—”You’re fired!”…

This bold move has sent the heads of corporate America spinning and spewing pea soup. Obama has issued this edict: The government of, by, and for the people is in charge here, not big business.

Read the full post here.

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