Apparently, all of those people in Washington D.C. who’ve never had a real job in their lives but have always managed to make a lot of money off of everyone else have a different definition of what “success” means than do the rest of us out here in the real world. If you’re under the [...]
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How “Success” Gets Defined When You’re Government Motors
July 27th, 2011 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Car Company 
Tags: Bankruptcy, chevrolet, Chevrolet Cruze, Cruze, general motors, United Auto Workers, United States 
Comments OffVolt Tax Credit Scam?
June 7th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Some Republican at the National Legal and Policy Center wrote a blog about how Chevy dealers are ripping off the taxpayer by buying and selling Volts to one another to gain the tax credit. They then lie to their customers that the credit is available and pocket the money themselves. Sound like something these price [...]
Being Government Motors Means No Tax Bill
March 5th, 2011 Aaron Turpen As if being bailed out by the federal government, pretending to pay it back, and effectively becoming Government Motors wasn’t enough.. now GM gets to avoid paying taxes too, thanks to it’s sweetheart bailout deal. Of course, since GM is Government Motors, I guess having government pay taxes to itself is kind of redundant. On [...]
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Car Company Tags: bailout, gm, government motors, taxes 2 Comments »Obama’s 1M EV Goal and the Dept. of Reality
February 9th, 2011 Aaron Turpen President Obama said that having over a million electric vehicles on the road in the U.S. by 2015 is doable. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Department of Energy jumped in to back up his claims with a nifty chart and some projected sales figures. The government, of course, doesn’t bother having a Department of Reality because, [...]
Government Motors Becomes Less So, Thanks to Bush
November 18th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Well, Government Motors (GM) has gone public, opening their sorry company up for public purchase through an initial public offering (IPO). This means that private investors can now buy into the government-owned company (owned by the U.S. government to the tune of 60%). This was a big deal in the automotive media and was supposedly [...]
