On Sunday night, it was reported that President Obama is planning to appoint an entire task force
to tackle the failing American auto industry, instead of appointing a
single ?car czar.? According to certain commentators, the problem
is ?too big for a single man to handle.?
I don?t really see how anybody finds consolation in the fact that they
will have a gang of multiple people overseeing the downfall of the auto
industry, rather than just one. After all, such ?czars? (such an
autocratic title ascribed to an American official should make anyone
shudder) will invariably oversee tightening emissions standards and
increased unionization of the Detroit companies. Such policies
will make any recovery of these manufacturers a fantasy.
Instead of having one Robespierre running the show, we?ll have the
entire Reign of Terror beheading what?s left of the emaciated American
auto industry. At least with one ?car czar,? there would have
been only one more bureaucrat on the Federal payroll.
