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Salon dot com claims the South is conducting an 'economic Civil War' against the North's auto industry, because (now get this!) we subsidize Japanese, Korean and German transplant factories, and these factories undermine the rights of the UAW to help foist overly expensive junk on American consumers. This insufferable prick (Michael Lind) calls for a 'Third Reconstruction' to 'put an end to it' (preceded by, I suppose, another Shermanesque march to the sea, and followed by carpet baggers from the North installing Unions in every business with more than 3 employees..) Lind calls for 'national action', including raising the minimum wage to $12/hr. and 'federal revenue-sharing' (as if there aren't enough bailouts already?) to properly fund public education and services..this paid for by further taxes on the 'rich'.

Fortunately, Velociman posted an excellent Insta-launched retort that circumcises Lind quite effectively. I'll quote briefly..

The man is simply mad. Here's the Ray Bolger he sets up: the South is exploiting labor by providing jobs in a low-service environment, as opposed to the North, which provides some ephemeral "adequate public service funding". The Southern model is obviously immoral and grievious, and must be corrected by forcible Federal intervention. This is of course of a sort with all liberal fantasies of the proper use of power: the armed forces are never to be used against a belligerent enemy; Federal bayonets are only suitable for use in coercing fellow citizens to toe the fucking line. Most especially stupid redneck sisterfuckers.

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I noticed, by the by, that Mr. Lind never states the blindingly obvious: Detroit isn't bankrupt because of a few automobile plants in the South. They are insolvent because their business model is as putrid as Gacy's date in a crawlspace. The combination of managerial greed, union greed, and insufferable government mandates combined to slay an industry that has been essentially producing unwanted junk for 35 years anyway. These Yankee protectionists need to take the buggy whips out of their collective asses and throw them upon the bonfire of history. It's not broke, idiots: it's fucking dead. And unless the next CEO of General Motors is Jesus H.M.S. Christ it will stay dead. Unless the Corkers of the Senate have their way, and the industry is reborn with a foundation of economic viability, shareholder oversight, and viable product offerings.

That, my friends, is a Southern-style lynching. Velociman is now installed in my RSS reader, right up there with Iowahawk and Jeff Goldstein.