Where have all the leaders gone?

Ever since I read Lee Iacocca's book "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" I've thought a lot about leadership during times of crisis. In his book he says "Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car."

I agree with him %100. Where is our outrage?! Why the heck are those AIG executives still going out on vacations on the tax payers dime?!!! It is a sick and twisted person who can justify bringing a trillion dollar business to the brink of ruin, beg for government help, receive it, then run off to Vegas to have a $1500 massage!! What kind of leadership is that?

I'm sick of this stuff. And now we have to bail out the auto industry because for one, after 17 years of watching their market share plummet and the hand writing on the wall foretelling their doom unless they change course, they haven't changed anything! A few weeks ago I took a ride in my friends brand new Chevy truck only for the handle to nearly slice my hand open because the mold edging on the plastic wasn't properly shaved off. And they want us to bail them out!

Given the serious repercussions of losing jobs and seriously burdening our economy, it's easy to understand the reasons why we should bail out the Big Three. But I tend to think that if we do, Detroit will learn nothing and will just continue doing stupid things and making junk cars until they either die or come begging for more from the taxpayers. And the biggest reason why I'm not sure an auto bailout will work is because the UAW (United Auto Workers) need to learn a lesson - COMPANY'S DO NOT HAVE ENDLESS AMOUNTS OF MONEY! All unions seem to have this fairy tale belief that every company is a big bad wolf which greedily hoards tons of money while everyone else suffers. That's why they fight tooth and nail for every tiny concession a company is willing to give up in order to keep their skilled workers. Unions, especially the UAW, will stop at NOTHING SHORT OF COMPLETE BANKRUPTCY before they make any compromises with the Big Three. And they may just drive the companies to bankruptcy, then we'll find out if they're willing to negotiate.

I hope Obama is the great and chosen leader everyone seems to think he is. We certainly need someone to step up and lead us out of this mess.