Eat cake, chumps
As Ed says, “the only people not sacrificing here seems to be the unions themselves, and the Obama administration”:
A third-degree burn is devastating to anyone, but for Terry Cole, it meant the end of a dream: walking again.
Cole, who has been confined to a wheelchair for more than 30 years, in November 2007 suffered severe burns that he says were caused by a defect in the seat of his General Motors car, a Cadillac Escalade.
Cole was told the skin damage he suffered would make it impossible for him to resume the rigorous physical therapy that had given him hope of getting back on his feet.
The 53-year-old Missouri man is one of at least 400 people suing for damages after being hurt or having family members killed in a General Motors or Chrysler vehicle. He is also one of hundreds who, thanks to the government-backed bankruptcy restructuring of GM and Chrysler, don’t know if they’ll ever get their day in court.
“I never thought they would throw us to the side like we weren’t anything,” Cole said.
Where on earth would you have ever gotten such a foolish notion? Next to Obama’s union-goon cronies and the rest of the socialist gang of criminals, you AREN’T anything. But not to worry, future Government Motors victims customers: the warranties on your useless, unreliable, enviro-friendly pieces of junk are still backed by the full faith and credit of the United Soviet Socialist States of America’s government! Which is to say, backed by nothing at all except your own touching naivete.
The bankruptcy proceedings for fellow struggling automaker Chrysler, which concluded June 10, provided that company the same benefit and more: In Chrysler’s case, the judge ruled that the car company that emerged from bankruptcy is off the hook for liability claims related to any Chrysler car manufactured before the bankruptcy proceedings, even if the claims are filed after the bankruptcy.
That means that someone injured in a Chrysler car next week, for instance, couldn’t sue the company if they bought their car before June.
GM had initially sought a similar arrangement, but relented after objections from state attorneys general and consumer groups.
Again, not to worry; they’ll find some underhanded way to sneak it in the back door for Government Motors too, and do away with any recourse at all against these new government entities.
But hey, there’s a bright side here: once our spanking-new fascist tyranny has seized control of the health-care industry, the number of malpractice suits and such-like will be going waaay down. Most especially those that have actual merit. They’ll be illegal, and probably punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both.
Suckers. Why, who could ever have foreseen…?
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