I’ve been covering the world of business for 20 years, so I’m not shocked when a major multinational corporation is caught cutting corners, lying, cheating and defrauding the very customers who’ve built their brand. Corporations aren’t warm and fuzzy creatures that need our love and forgiveness.It hurts when your life and your money have been stolen from you??? HAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh, so rich. How old are you again? Have you not been paying attention to the weekly global banking scandals, the rigging of every market, the quantitative ex nihilo credit creation, Chinese economic data, Enron, BP, Catholic priest predators, LIBOR, et al? We live in a Linda Green world where lies and deceit are the coin of the realm. P.T. Barnum runs the financial system, the government, and crony corporations. Honesty and straight dealing are as rare as rhinos. Everything in life is caveat emptor, every transaction, every "vote", every earnings report, and everything you read.
Still, this lie hurts. It always does when it’s your life and your money that have been stolen from you.
As a once-proud VW owner, what do I do? Get rid of the car? And buy what? If I can’t trust VW, can I trust Ford? Or Nissan? Or Tesla? Can I trust the Environmental Protection Agency to uncover the companies’ lies on the cars I’d choose between?
Do I sound a little jaded? I prefer the term streetwise. It's OK, Rex. So you've gone from proud VW owner to dirty polluter. The world will survive. Just wake up and smell the diesel.
Hahaha!!
ReplyDeleteThe lies taste like lye! These silver-tongued devils speak in tongues while burning my tongue!
We need a which hunt! Which one just ripped me off? Slap that wrist! Which one just did it again? Impose a puny fine! Which one just killed a hundred consumers? Public shaming! That'll teach 'em!
Oh, wait. That's what we are doing. Never mind. Justice is sewered! Um, severed. Um, served. Yeah, served. Whew!
Stagflationary Mark,
DeleteHilarious! Enough lyes and you can put on a soap opera. I have a laundry list of complaints, but it will all come out in the wash.
This VW thing is good for the competition. Their mission is to get emissions in remission, but they're probably just wishin.
Hahaha!
DeleteI'd offer up some more puns but I don't want to preach and think on and inside the soap box. Box, you say? What is this? A Rocky movie?
Speaking of Rocky, the Road VW's driving makes me think of ice cream. They're nuts! And chicolatey! And marshmallowy! Yum!
You'd have to be nuts to use defeat software in your car. It's all just a misunderstanding.
How did they pass the emissions test? Simple! Used da feet!! Flintstones technology for the win!!
Stagflationary Mark,
DeleteThere were many sequels to Rocky, and there may be many to the VW story as other car makers will be double checked.
Cramer was talking about how this should be good news for the other auto companies. Apparently he believes all the fraud is contained. I guess you an I are just way too cynical to blindly assume such a thing is a given!
DeleteAnd now back to Rocky. I think Cramer's been blessed with bullwinkle, assuming winkle is derogatory.
Apollo's Creed is probably based on music. He played a golden liar! Oops. Lyre!
The God supposedly played the lyre, not the guy Rocky fought. You know, the guy who wore the American flag as shorts.
I'm not sure VW can "Weathers" the storm. The shorts did some serious and justifiable damage to their stock price.
Oh, what tangled puns we weave, when VW practices to deceive!
LOL. Seriously, out loud. I vote for a fresh start at VW and new name: VA -> VolksAuspuff (people's exhaust)
DeleteHahaha!
DeleteVA could backfire (explosive exhaust;))!
VolksAuschwitz!
We're concentrating on fixing problems! That's the camp we're in now! Witz problems? All of them! German engineering at its finest!
Shame on me. Bad Mark! Bad! Bad!
Das Auto!
ReplyDeleteIt does not affect the performance or safety of the car.
Maybe mother earth feels a bit sick.