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President Obama to Appoint Ron Bloom Manufacturing Czar

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Posted by Fred 2009-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Politburo
1. the executive and policy-making committee of a Communist Party
2. the supreme policy-making authority in most Communist countries
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

com·mis·sar (km-sär)
n.
1.
a. An official of the Communist Party in charge of political indoctrination and the enforcement of party loyalty.
b. The head of a commissariat in the Soviet Union until 1946.
2. A person who tries to control public opinion.

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[Russian komissar, from German Kommissar, deputy, from Medieval Latin commissrius, agent; see commissary.]

Posted by Gleans Sproing2705 2009-09-08 06:21|| 2009-09-08 06:21|| Front Page Top

#2 A former vice president of Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, Bloom was a restructuring expert for the U.S. Steelworkers.

Re-structuring expert for the union? I see he is eminently qualified for manufacturing czar? BO is just paying off his debt to the unions.

We need to get rid of the czar concept for whichever party is in power, whether it be the dhimmicrats, communists, trunks or the Tea Party. The whole concept is anti-American and just a scheme to appoint people outside Congressional scrutiny and to give the Oval Office more power.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-09-08 08:12|| 2009-09-08 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Um, does this make him a subordinate of the Commerce Secretary, or vice versa?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2009-09-08 09:04|| 2009-09-08 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Do we have any manufacturing any more? I thought we didn't want it, that it was dirty and menial work best sent to the Third World.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-09-08 09:57|| 2009-09-08 09:57|| Front Page Top

#5 What does a restructuring expert for the U.S. Steelworkers do? I have visions of consolidating what's left of the U.S. steel industry after the unions forced it offshore. And now he's gonna do the same for the automakers?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-09-08 11:48|| 2009-09-08 11:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, and how much is he gonna get paid and from what dark corner of the bloated federal budget?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-09-08 11:50|| 2009-09-08 11:50|| Front Page Top

#7 We must welcome Ron Bloom and the bringing of kibbutzim. Forget the Shemini Atzeret. You will eat only if you have tilled and when we TELL YOU! Equal portions for all! Rahm and Axel are watching! Geithner is keeping the books!

Posted by Besoeker 2009-09-08 12:12|| 2009-09-08 12:12|| Front Page Top

#8 An old science fiction short story (Kurt Vonnegut I think) comes immediately to mind.

If you can find "The handicapper General" read it, very good and applies perfectly to Oshit's CZARS.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-09-08 13:26|| 2009-09-08 13:26|| Front Page Top

#9 I think this is the story that Redneck Jim is talking about.

Diana Moon Glampers for Equality Czar!

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-09-08 14:08|| 2009-09-08 14:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Ebbang Uluque6305 - I think he quitely moves the Union Pension fund offshore and pockets it....

Posted by 3dc 2009-09-08 15:42|| 2009-09-08 15:42|| Front Page Top

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