We can only hope that Alec Baldwin never gets into a serious position of power. In an
article that reads like a water cooler politics conversation, Baldwin blames automakers’ resistance to stupid environmental regulations for their current plight:
they spent billions of dollars attempting to bribe the Congress to avoid putting in seat belts and air bags, installing catalytic converters and reaching more ambitious fuel efficiency standards. For the most part, they succeeded. [emphasis mine]
Obviously, the industry did
not succeed in it’s resistance to seat belts, airbags and catalytic converters. So, now we know that Baldwin has only green on the mind. More:
I feel horribly for every single man and woman who will suffer as the result of this heartbreaking turn of events. I was the voice of Chevy Tahoe TV spots for five years in the early 90′s. I drove a Tahoe then and loved it. Now, I drive a Prius.
LOL. Yeah, I’m sure he feel sooo “horribly” for them. So now we know that Baldwin drives an ugly fish-like car… er, I mean a Prius. And, finally, we get to the heart of Baldwin’s water cooler screed:
Let energy conservation and fuel efficiency rule the day. Let the carmakers go under.
So here we have Baldwin, who feels “horribly” for all those people “who will suffer” advocating for automakers to go under for the sole reason that they resisted idiotic environmental regulations. Nice.
Of course we all know that those people “who will suffer” would be the unions, who are the real reason US automakers are in the mess they are in.
Unions are unsustainable in a free market, which is why they always attempt to regulate the market in their favor, etc. Automakers would be
wise to abandon an impossible situation.
Baldwin’s
popularity declined by 2% this week. If his acting is as lame as his attempts at political writing, that might explain it.
