Relax, I bet Mini is hiring

The Atlantic's glibertarian in-chief Megan McArdle writes today,

Over the past few weeks, I've seen a lot of people, particularly on television, freaking out because auto makers are losing money, and auto dealers can't sell SUVs. I thought the days were long past when anyone believed that what is good for General Motors was good for the country, but apparently not. People seem to connect the purchase of large, gas guzzling cars to prosperity in some deep reptilian part of their brain that will brook no argument.

Oh boy.

I don't think it's a reptilian love of SUVs so much as it as a general concern for the tens of thousands of Americans who work for these companies and who's pensions are tied to these companies. Big American companies declaring bankruptcy is a bad thing for lots of American families. Our concern isn't for a hunk of inanimate metal, it's for the tens of thousands of lives that are teetering in the balance. To McArdle though working families may as well be inanimate objects.

Continuing she states,

First of all, not all automakers are doing badly. I am contemplating the purchase of a Mini for its excellent fuel economy and terrific easyness of parking in a crowded city.

I swear to god I did not make that up. She really cited an English company as an example of a car company that is doing well. See, American working families there's nothing to worry about if you work for General Motors, Mini is doing well!

I imagine McArdle making these statements while snapping big bubbles with her gum, twirling her hair and with Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy" blasting out of her iPod. I don't know how else to make sense of her complete and utter vacuousness.

I'm still amazed on a near weekly basis at McArdle's complete and total lack of understanding or empathy for anyone who hasn't lived her life of pampered privilege. It's maddening to me that she is regarded as a serious thinker in our political discourse.