De-motivational poster: http://www.pleaselink.me/_/myconfinedspace/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/prayer.jpg

Okay I’ll bite on the “secular Messiah” comment. I actually agree that Obama is positioned as a Messiah of sorts.

He has all the attributes of a Messiah.. Perfect for the role. He could sell a freezer to an eskimo without electricity and then convince the guy that it was his fault that it doesn’t work.

None of the other presidential candidates could have come close to pulling off the Messiah act.

Lately I’ve come to believe that this country will fall deeper into the abyss until the majority of American’s decide that government is not the answer and in fact government is the very thing that is screwing us over.

We blew/popped the tech bubble, then the housing bubble, and now we have the last/biggest bubble to pop – Belief in the government’s ability to produce value.

Approval ratings for the government are already in the toilet, but the general population has decided that government must solve the economic crisis. Once Obama’s spending has decimated any chance for a US recovery and the rest of the world is recovering nicely we will get a NASTY dose of inflation that should pop the last/biggest bubble.

Obama’s entire strategy is based on a perpetual motion/free energy scheme. Magically the government can take a unit of production (via taxes) and spin it into 2 units.

Today’s job report was a perfect example…

A net 539,000 jobs lost… but you should add all the government jobs created to that figure, since every government employee is one less person that can produce something. Government is pure overhead, like an accounting department for a manufacturer. Critical, but overhead nonetheless so you keep it as small as possible.

Are you pissed about the government spending/growing? Then you figured out the con… Once a majority figure it out, then we can make progress.

Would you please give some insights about the what, how and why of blunders GM made on the road to perdition?

Then I was ashamed of myself.

Those folks praying for Detroit’s recovery are decent individuals who have been hit by forces beyond their control. Even if their specific requests for job preservation and such are not–maybe cannot be–met, they can get some comfort by placing their trust in the Almighty.

Down here in the southwest we too have known bad times. Dust bowl. Depression. Three decades of outmigration. In the 80’s the oil boom turned to bust, and took down with it a lot of businesses and people. Hundreds of banks failed. Real estate prices collapsed. Drilling equipment sold for pennies on the dollar when a buyer could be found. A hundred petroleum engineers and geologists seeking every job opening. Sound kinda familiar?

Bad times don’t last forever. But they can last a long time. And in the meantime, there will be wrenching changes for a lot of good people. We should be praying for them.

These people are not (definitely) the masters of their destiny. They believe that their destiny is in invisible hands.

They may also pray for the resurrection of AMC, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Cord, Jordan, Hupmobile, Checkers or Duesenberg. It would be just the same.

I would suggest appealing the Mayan god of the dead, Yum Cimil, (because these companies are dead already)

It may well sharpen the minds of current Execs and high ranking union officials to see a couple of them selected at random and their still beating hearts removed from their chests and then their corpses rolled of the steps of the Renaissance Center.

Then they can pray that they don’t bleed to death before things improve.

Prayer will not mitigate thirty years of mismanagement and poor corporate choices. More often than not, they will reap what they sow.

Peace.

I don’t think sales will miraculously start to happen for Detroit.

A bonfire that included a few senior auto executives and the UAW contracts could be a fall back if the candlelight vigil fails.

One good thing that could come out of this…the land that the GM Tech Center in Warren sits on could make a great golf course.

So what did Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue do? He had a big prayer meeting.

Last I heard, they still have water. Hey, if it worked for Atlanta, maybe it’ll work for Detroit.