GM fires American ad agency, hires France

Don't know if you all knew this when it happened early summer, but the advertising agency that brought us such memorable ad campaigns as "See the USA in Your Chevrolet" and "Like A Rock" has been fired by General Motors. Fired after 90 years of work for GM.

Campbell-Ewald is headquartered in Warren, MI (suburb of Detroit) in an area hardest hit by unemployment and job loss. GM has hired Publicis Worldwide, a French advertising company.

Remember, some of GM's upper management was put in place by the Obama Auto Czar to help turn the company around and create American jobs. Since the USA owns 61% of GM I would expect that the Auto Czar would have to sign off on this type of change at GM.

And the point is? Our tax dollars are now going to a French advertising company. Wonder how many French jobs will be created and how many American jobs will be lost?

Do you think Obama and Crew cares about us? Think again.

Teachers or Viagra - Choose One

Milwaukee school district is in a financial crisis and is facing hundreds of layoffs. Sound serious? Should be, but the Milwaukee teachers' union is fighting to get tax-payer funded Viagra. There's been a 2-year legal battle over this issue, the union saying if a necessary treatment and the school district saying we need to save money. The union, at the same time they are demanding this benefit, is also protesting 682 layoff notices issued to teachers for the coming school year. Reinstating the drug benefit (yea, that's right, it used to be covered before funds got tight) would cost $786,000 - the cost of approximately a dozen first-year teachers.

So would they rather have the drug or jobs or pension benefits? Gotta choose, can't have it all. Let me clarify, the TAXPAYER, many of whom are out of work, cannot continue to pay for everything.