@Foxfyre,
Foxfyre wrote:
I was just listening to a resume of the new 'Car Tzar' appointed to direct GM for the forseeable future. With the possibility that I am not remembering it all 100% correctly, the gist was something like this:
He is 33 years old and has never held a private sector job, at least that anybody knows about. He was a law school drop out. He has no training or experience in economics, manufacturing, retailing, wholesaling, or the auto industry of any kind, and his only marketing experience has been in a leftwing, George Soros funded think tank that specializes in promoting Democratic talking points. He did work on the Obama campaign and I think they said he was working in the administration at the time of his appointment.
That should make everybody feel better about their investment in General Motors, yes?
Hey Fox. Whoever you are listening to? They don't know what the **** they are talking about. And here you are repeating their dreck without bothering to do even the most basic fact-checking.
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Steven "Steve" Lawrence Rattner is an American financier and private equity investor. He is one of the four founding partners of the private investment firm Quadrangle Group, which invests media and communications companies globally. On February 23, 2009, the Wall Street Journal announced that Rattner would be named to the Treasury Department as auto industry adviser The New York Times reported that he would be lead advisor and leader of the industry group for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.[1]
A graduate of Brown University, Rattner started his career as a reporter with The New York Times, first at the Washington bureau, where he became close friends with Times' ownership-family member Arthur Sulzberger, who also was at the time working as a reporter; and then at the London bureau. Subsequently, Rattner quit journalism and joined Morgan Stanley, where he founded their Communications Group. In 1989 he joined Lazard as a General Partner; he founded their Media and Communications Group. In 1997 he became Lazard's deputy chairman and Deputy CEO, a new position. He stepped down from those positions in 1999, and left Lazard in 2000, with three other partners in that firm, to found the Quadrangle Group.
Rattner is married to Maureen White, the former National Finance Chair for the Democratic Party. He has four children.
I mean, could you be more wrong? Is it possible?
Perhaps you are referring to someone else besides the 'car czar?' GM is now being ran by Fritz Waggoner, their former COO. Who the hell are you talking about?
I think you need to recheck your source on this one.
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