Bankruptcy economist and Internet powerhouse Andy Martin says Barack Obama’s bailout of the UAW and Chrysler, is “stealing”

Andy Martin says Obama’s Chrysler “plan” is a bailout of the UAW, not the automaker

Martin is the only bankruptcy expert who has made the disturbing observation that “hedge funds” and other investment firms get their capital from pension funds and charitable entities; Obama wants to steal from these charities and pension plans, of other firms, to subsidize a UAW bailout.


Bankruptcy economist and Internet powerhouse Andy Martin says Barack Obama’s bailout of the UAW and Chrysler, is “stealing”

Martin is the only bankruptcy expert who has made the disturbing observation that “hedge funds” and other investment firms get their capital from pension funds and charitable entities; Obama wants to steal from these charities and pension plans, of other firms, to subsidize a UAW bailout.

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(CHICAGO)(April 30, 2009) Internet powerhouse and bankruptcy economist Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference today, Thursday, April 30th to denounce Barack Obama’s Chrysler/UAW bailout.

Martin calls Obama’s Chrysler/UAW bailout proposal “stealing,” and says rewarding the UAW for destroying the automobile industry is like handing out cash rewards to bank robbers. Martin calls Obama’s bankruptcy plan “delusional” and says it was drafted by a Wall Street influence peddler, Steve Ratner, and a failed Wall Street overseer, Tim Geithner.

“We have been swamped with requests for interviews from around the world, because ContrarianCommentary.com is the only source for independent bankruptcy analysis,” says Martin.

“There is a word for what Obama is doing: stealing. Obama wants to steal from some creditors, which creditors in turn are owned by and owe a fiduciary duty to other pension funds and small shareholders, to reward the UAW. The UAW helped engineer the destruction of the auto industry. Why reward the UAW for utter and complete failure and for the union’s contempt for the laws of economics? Jobs bank, anyone?

“Let me be clear, there is no such thing as a ‘surgical’ bankruptcy. Barack Obama is, once again, demonstrating his lack of competence and experience as an attorney when he tells the public Chrysler can be restructured in 30 or 60 days. That is delusional. Obama is similarly dreaming when he says a Section 363 sale can easily sail through the courts without opposition.

“Unlike politicians and presidential candidates, who can promise the moon and lie through their teeth, courts actually have to obey the Constitution and provide due process to all interested parties, and not just bow down to the emperor Obama. Due process can’t be served up on a skillet.

“I don’t know yet whether the Department of Justice will petition a federal district court to withdraw jurisdiction from a bankruptcy judge; but if a bankruptcy judge assumes the case, it will take time to organize the proceeding before any progress can be made.

“This ‘bankruptcy’ is going to leave a foul taste in the mouths of American workers who are being robbed to reward the UAW. Why favor one family over another? Why one worker over another? Are the UAW’s political contributions a reason to discriminate? The UAW is bragging that its past bribery of politicians will now allow it to steal from other worker retirement plans to maintain the unsustainable benefits it received in another era. That’s what Obama is really doing, and no one wants to inform the public. He is robbing from other state and city workers, from anyone and everyone who has pension benefits which are invested by third parties. Obama wants to take “other peoples’ money,” and turn the stolen money over to the UAW on a silver platter as payback for the UAW’s past history of political contributions.

“Barack Obama is stealing from the American people to reward the UAW. It’s disgraceful.

“I expect creditors to fight Obama’s takeover and giveaway. The process will drag on a lot longer than people now anticipate. It is a sad day for the American people when their president, who is supposed to represent all of us, is picking his political contributors and supporters to reward, and screwing the rest of the nation by stealing our retirement savings. Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama? Perfect together,” Martin says.

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Bankruptcy economist Andy Martin will call Barack Obama’s UAW bailout “stealing” and delusional, and a goofy proposal that will lead to the demise of the automaker

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Government intervention will only destroy Chrysler and the UAW

Bankruptcy economist Andy Martin says Obama should let the auto companies go bankrupt—on their own

Martin predicts that an Obama-inspired bankruptcy now will lead to repeat bankruptcies in the future. Martin also points out that the Obama “plan” merely shifts pension fund losses from the UAW to other company and state/municipal retirement programs. “No one has asked other retirees whether they want to subsidize the UAW,” Martin points out. “Does anyone believe Steve Ratner and Tim Geithner can do a better job than the market?”


Internet powerhouse Andy Martin asks: who is Obama really bailing out, the auto industry or the UAW?

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Andy Martin says that as currently structured, Obama’s bailout of the UAW will doom Chrysler to failure.

“Would you buy a car from a retirement fund?” asks Andy

Obama wants to turn ownership and control of the automobile firms over to the very people that destroyed them

(NEW YORK)(April 30, 2009) As this column is written, it appears Chrysler Corporation will file for bankruptcy. But whether Chrysler formally files or not, Obama is in the process of destroying the American automobile industry. In his own words, Obama is harking back to the Viet-Nam era refrain, “we had to destroy [the auto industry] to save it.”

First, full disclosure: my family owns two (2) Chrysler products. I will go to bed tonight and sleep like a baby, confident that the vehicles will endure, be serviced and have parts available to the end of their useful lives. Chrysler will endure, in spite of and not because of Obama’s bailout of the UAW.

Second, if anyone can be deemed a prophet of the auto industry’s demise, sadly it is me. Back in 2005 I predicted the auto bankruptcies. Again last fall I said bankruptcy was inevitable:

http://www.pr-inside.com/general-motors-
should-file-for-bankruptcy-r904367.htm

http://www.pr-inside.com/internet-powerhouse-
andy-martin-gm-r1149046.htm

Obama’s latest machinations have been styled as a “bailout” of the automobile industry. Far from it. Obama is really bailing out the United Auto Workers and, in the process, ensuring the demise of the UAW.

Are you listening UAW members?

Here is Obama’s plan in a nutshell: Chrysler ownership would be transferred to a UAW “pension plan,” with the plan receiving 55% ownership and control. Fiat, an Italian auto maker, would receive up to 35% and the US Government would get 8%. In this “assemblage” going to be able to run a complex manufacturing enterprise? Highly unlikely.

Excuse me, but wasn’t it the UAW’s excessive pensions and benefits that contributed to the demise of the auto industry? Is the UAW now going to be rewarded for bankrupting the auto companies by being given control of the firms it destroyed? Does this make any sense at all? This is a viable industrial policy?

In olden days the UAW would threaten to exterminate one auto company at contract time, to force an agreement with excessive wages and benefits. The UAW would then transfer the same excessive terms to the other automakers. Over the decades, the UAW effectively destroyed its own industry. General Motor’s employment shrinkage is projected to be approximately 90% of its peak employment. A union that ends up with 10% of the employment base it started with is corrupt, incompetent and self-destructive.

And I am a friend of the UAW. I have a deep affection for the men and women on the shop floor. I believe they have been betrayed by their union leaders. But whether the union members were betrayed or not, handing Chrysler (or GM) control over to a “pension plan” is sheer stupidity. It is a “plan” that is doomed to failure.

Four years ago I correctly predicted the industry would go bankrupt. I did it again last year. And if Obama’s current “bankruptcy plan” succeeds, I can confidently predict the companies will go bankrupt again in the future, to rid themselves of UAW control, mismanagement and inefficiency.

What is the current battle about? There are approximately $7 billion dollars in “secured” claims at Chrysler. That means the debt is backed by security of some sort: factories, inventories, etc. In addition, there are probably assets that Cereberus Corporation, Chrysler’s current owner, stripped out of the company that can be recovered as fraudulent conveyances.

Obama is demanding that people holding secured claims of $7 billion surrender them for approximately $2 billion, when market predictions are that in a bankruptcy these creditors could recover $4 billion or more on their debts.

Who owns big slices of the hedge funds that hold these claims? Why other "retirement plans," of course. Obama wants “other” companies’ employee retirement plans to write off their assets to subsidize the UAW's retirement program. Is that fair? I don't think so. Of course no one but me is correctly analyzing what Obama is actually doing by trying to bail out the UAW, which is shift the losses to other employee retirement plans, a classic case of robbing one union, Peter, to pay another union, Paul.

Sure the UAW voted to accept this thievery. But what about the “other” pension plans that have invested in the auto industry’s claims? These “other” plans include public employee pension funds. How do those workers and retirees feel about their funds being taken away to benefit UAW retirees? Not surprisingly, no one has asked the victims whether they want to be victims and whether they want to surrender billions of dollars of their assets and retirement savings to the UAW. (You heard this first, here.)

Why would a creditor take less than half from Obama, when the same creditor would get more than double in a bankruptcy? Why are automobiles any different than the numerous airlines that went bankrupt? No one bailed out the airline pension plans.

Obama says he is going to have a quick and easy bankruptcy. Not so fast, Barry O. Bankruptcy cases are seldom quick and easy, and restructuring the auto industry will take much more time than Obama realizes. After all, he is a failed lawyer who is no more of a competent bankruptcy attorney than he is a competent auto executive. He has no background in either.

My combined experience in economics and bankruptcy tells me that the bankruptcy proceedings are not going to be anywhere near as quick and easy as Obama believes or predicts. Creditors have lawyers, and lawyers fight for their clients. Clients have a right to maximize their return. And (reminder, again) many of these claims are ultimately held by plans funds which are owned by the retirement programs of other companies and organizations.

Creditors of other companies’ retirement plans are not required to surrender value merely so that overpaid and over compensated UAW members can receive a comfortable retirement.

At the next level, the bankruptcy confusion gets even more interesting. The “big banks” are willing to knuckle under to Obama. In other words, having been bailed out themselves, bank managements are willing to stick their stockholders with billions of dollars in unnecessary losses, by writing down their secured claims, merely to please the “Anointed One, Barry O.”

Well, who owns these banks? Large blocks of stock are owned by pension funds such as the UAW’s.

In other words, the very people who will suffer losses if the banks write down their secured claims are the UAW members who Obama claims to be bailing out at the other end. You can pick which end is the front, and which is the back.

OK, here comes the Republican Party commercial, an “editorial” on why I am a social moderate but still an economic conservative.

Bankruptcy is a brutal process. It is a bloodthirsty process. But at the end, the firms which emerge are going to survive because they have been restructured into viable enterprises, not because they have been converted into employment dens for union bosses and political commissars. Anyone remember the "union owned" cars built in the former Soviet Union or East Germany?

Obama on the other hand, proposes to “restructure” the auto companies in such a manner as to make it impossible for them to survive. So if Obama succeeds, the auto companies (and, yup, the UAW, again) are doomed to failure. Whether UAW workers lose “up front,” with a bankruptcy, or lose at the back end, when the banks in which their retirement plans hold shares write off capital to take losses on auto company loans, they will be losers either way.

Long term, Obama “saves” the UAW by killing it off. With a “terminal” prognosis long term, is he really that much of a friend of organized labor? Or working families?

My plan: let the markets work. Obama should simply say, in another departure from George Bush’s failed policies, “enough,” and walk away from the auto industry. He will be doing everyone a big favor. The federal government should simply write off its loans and say “Bye.” Soon enough, labor, management and the bankruptcy courts will work things through quite nicely on their own, without any government intervention.

Can anyone really say that New York swindler Steve Ratner and goofball Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner are going to do a better job?

Left alone, in no time there will be people bidding to buy auto assets and restart production lines. Jobs will survive. Fiat will still be trying to make a deal.

And my two Chrysler products will continue to hum away. I am a satisfied lifetime customer of American-made automobiles, and I say “Thank you, UAW members. I am only sorry your union leadership misled and disappointed you.” But the only way for a single UAW job to be secure is to keep Barack Obama off the shop floor.

Yes, mine is a “conservative Republican,” proposal, not a George Bush disaster bailout or a Barry Obama rescue extravaganza. People were building cars before Bush and Obama, and they will be building cars after Bush and Obama. If Bush and Obama would only stay out of the way.

I was right in 2005. I was right in 2008 and I am right in 2009. Let the automobile companies file for bankruptcy, and let the process work normally. It’s not a pretty sight to watch, but at the end of the process, our economy will be strengthened, not weakened, and workers will be safer than they would be if their positions were being protected by Obama’s political commissars.

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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie “Obama: The Hawai’i years.” Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds economics and law degrees from the University of Illinois and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York. He is an announced candidate for Barack Obama’s former U. S. Senate seat.

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Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says General Motors should still file for bankruptcy Monday morning

For GM, the “knock at the door” came on Sunday; who’s next?

Andy says GM should thumb its nose at Barack Obama’s bailout and take its chances in the courts

Barack Obama wants to politicize American industry. General Motors is giving him his first opening. The result will be corporate chaos and rule by commissar. Where are the Republicans when we need them?

ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com

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Obama ousts GM’s leader, says Andy Martin; Who’s next?

Obamaland is starting to look more like a political dictatorship, in which anonymous “task forces” with their sole loyalty to the "maximum leader" take control of America's economy

GM should file for bankruptcy Monday morning and thumb its nose at any more government aid

(NEW YORK)(March 30, 2009) Over three years ago I proposed that General Motors file for bankruptcy. No one was listening. Last November, I renewed my suggestion.
http://www.pr-inside.com/general-motors-should-file-for-bankruptcy-r904367.htm

GM executives thought a government bailout was preferable to bankruptcy. They are living to regret that strategy.

Sunday (March 29th) the “knock at the door” came for GM. Barack Obama announced he was effectively taking over the company by dismissing GM CEO Rick Wagoner. I am no admirer of Wagoner.

GM previously claimed “no one would buy a car from a company in bankruptcy." Does anyone believe that people are going to buy cars from a company controlled by Barack Obama? Richard Nixon must be smiling. No one would buy a used car from him.

According to the New York Times, Wagoner was not “forced out.” He was just “asked to leave.” Yah sure. He was paid to go, and he was paid to keep quiet. Wait and see.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/30auto.html?hp

Today (Monday) Obama announces his “rescue plan” for GM and Chrysler. These companies would be better off filing for bankruptcy Monday morning and thumbing their nose at Obama.

Obama, of course, has an “auto task force” (New York Times). That “task force” is assuming effective control of GM without due process of law and without the supervision and intervention of an independent judge. Is this what American business has come to?

In bankruptcy, all sides would be forced to follow established procedures and timetables. There are strict laws and rules barring improper influence and secret dealing. In Obama’s “court” there is but one law, and that law is the rule of the Emperor Obama.

Is there any doubt that under Obama’s maladministration GM will be paralyzed and eventually populated by political commissars? That the very eventuality GM sought to flee, bankruptcy, will ultimately arrive? There is no doubt at all. None whatsoever.

General Motors faces two problems: inflated wages and benefits, and federal laws mandating the sale of high-mileage cars. Labor is not going to surrender without a fight, no matter what Obama says. Likewise, companies need to build what they can sell, not what bureaucrats order them to manufacture.

The auto crisis reflects a classic situation where “free market” principles are infinitely preferable to rule-by-bureaucrat.
Some people want small cars. They should be free to buy them from auto companies that are free to sell them. I want a large car, not a teakettle. I should be free to buy one without the company being penalized for selling me what I want. I trust the marketplace more than I trust Obama & Co.

My sympathies are with the men and women on the shop floor, not with the big shots in the executive suite. Ordinary hourly workers have been betrayed at every level of leadership. I may be a Republican, but I am a pro-labor Republican. I believe in supporting working families. Wall Street’s hedge funds looted America. Now, as the nation lies prostrate, Obama’s maggots are seeking to devour the carcass.

Workers are suffering. Tax cuts are not the solution for the automobile industry. Free markets are. Paychecks are. Freedom of choice is.

Bankruptcy would offer GM management a considerable measure of control. The claim that no one will buy a new car from a bankrupt company is nonsense. Some people won’t. But I wouldn’t give the issue a second thought.

In any event, GM’s analysis was and is flawed; sooner or later, the company is going bankrupt. Labor and capital, workers and investors, are not going to walk away from their claims without a fight; that fight will have to be conducted in a court of law, not in Obama’s private chambers.

The “new” GM and Chrysler will be somewhat different from their predecessors. Wages and benefits will be equalized with foreign-owned plants. American workers will become more competitive, not less, in a bankruptcy process. Left alone, Obama, who was elected as the champion of labor, will ultimately deal a death blow to the UAW. No surprise there, either. By law courts must protect the interests of all stakeholders, not just creditors.

Whether GM acts prudently, and files for bankruptcy Monday, or delays the inevitable while it dithers with bailout funds for a few more weeks, makes no different in the long run. People worked hard to acquire their jobs, benefits and creditor claims. They are not going to surrender their stakes without a fight. In America, fights of this type are sorted out in a bankruptcy court, not Barack Obama’s back pocket. Stakeholders are entitled to a free and open courtroom, not the closed doors of a politically-appointed “task force” accountable to no one.

So, File the Bankruptcy Petition! I can understand why Obama wants to play games with America’s economy. I can’t understand why GM’s management is playing along with Obama’s suicide pact. Rick Wagoner should have told Obama take a jump. Instead, he wimped out and quit. Great leader, he.

Truthfully? Labor will do better under a straight bankruptcy. And so will lenders and investors. And so will every American.

I don’t care whether Mr. Wagoner’s job is saved, or not. But anyone with a sliver of common sense should see bankruptcy is the only option; government bailouts are ultimately going to destroy and dismember, not save, GM and Chrysler.

Why am I right? Because a bankruptcy filing by GM’s management would call the government’s bluff. Obama wants to appear to be a “friend of labor,” even though he is not a friend of labor. The bailout process is not transparent; by its very nature the “auto task force” is the type of secret organization that U.S. Senator Robert Byrd has been railing against. The “task force” appears to be beyond the control of congressional oversight. Only in open court can the parties fight out their differences and arrive at a solution that leads to recovery or liquidation.

If GM managers don’t have the guts to make the tough choice and file for bankruptcy, they will all be replaced, one by one, by Obama’s commissars. Sunday, the knock at the door came for Rick Wagoner. Who’s next?

I was right in 2005 when I published my pioneering analysis of the automobile industry. I am still right.

FOOTNOTE: A tip of the hat to the University of Illinois Economics Department, and UI College of Business, for training me in business and economic analysis. They taught me well.

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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting experience in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Martin comments on regional, national and world events with over four decades of experience. He holds Economics and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Illinois and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York. He is an announced candidate for Barack Obama’s former U. S. Senate seat.

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