Another day another socialist agenda item ticked off.  As we saw on Tuesday, the administration has now mandated further changes to the CAFE standards for automobiles that will result in smaller, costlier and less safe cars being sold in America.  This following up from the announcement that General Motors will enter a quick bankruptcy and be sold to the government, after disposing of underperforming assets.

These actions come after the Chrysler bailout and bankruptcy and follow the nearly $25 billion provided to the automakers that will never be recovered by the taxpayers.  In fact, under the proposed plans, the debts will be forgiven and subsequent ownership will likely be provided to the UAW along with the government and finally, a minority position to the bondholders.  This would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.  Consider the fact that essentially, the means of production are being passed to the workers and unions who through their bargaining and strike threats created a health and welfare system so costly as to destroy the very business they are now going to own!

Worse still, these bailouts and ownership structures are meant to sustain a retirement and healthcare system for a specific group of people and ignore the fact that so many other groups have lost their pensions, healthcare and retirements due to bankruptcies in their own companies.  How can we see any constitutional right to this targeted and specific action that benefits a small group of people to the tune of tens of billions of dollars while ignoring the fact that this policy isn’t even constitutional?

Are we to believe that the UAW is somehow more deserving or our tax dollars than others who are not protected?  Is the administration so beholding to the UAW that it flaunts any element of the Constitution it desires and ignores any rule of law that it finds inconvenient?  Thinking back, I am struck by the fact that when the president was sworn in, he incorrectly took the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice Roberts, and then subsequently took the oath absent the Bible.  No teleprompter present!  It certainly would explain that perhaps he really didn’t mean, “…that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States, and I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Have we become so blinded by the aura of personality that we no longer raise our voices to oppose the continuing dissolution of our Constitutional rights while at the same time seeing our children’s future encumbered by unsustainable debt?  All of this is in the name of “fairness”?  The actions of this administration in the financial and automotive industry should be instructive when considering their proposals for healthcare.  We as a people cannot and should not allow such obvious and detrimental actions to occur in Washington without at least making our voices heard.  Through all of this I am reminded of the great poem by Dylan Thomas:

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

As you consider the actions of our government in the financial and auto industries, prepare yourself for the coming challenges.  Make your voice heard – and be prepared for the next bailout of the states of California and New York while Congress also considers legislation allowing for “special” funding to minority owned broadcasters to maintain diversity.  In the march to fairness, this administration tramples over those it considers less fair and in the end, the Constitution itself.  How much longer are we to wait before we "rage against the dying of the light"?