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DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 11:08 AM Original message |
WP,pg1: Automakers Are Lining Up Aid, But Just Don't Call It a Bailout |
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teryang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
1. Crony socialism for corporations |
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leesa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
2. What was it? Cadillac Welfare Queens? Something like that? |
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OregonBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
3. U.S. automakers made terrible choices, continued to concentrate |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
4. I'd be in favor of a bailout |
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gulfcoastliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 04:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. I'd rather the money be spent on the Gulf coast helping individuals and |
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Hotler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
5. It's nothing but greed. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. Let them fail and maybe some of the smaller auto makers will have a chance |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 07:36 AM Response to Reply #6 |
20. Read the other day where the oil storage is just a big flap |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
7. GM was bailed out in the 1980s when Lee Iococa |
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newblewtoo (332 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 05:43 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Wow, I never knew |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 06:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I'm pretty sure it was GM, might have been Chrysler. |
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DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 07:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. You're right -- from the article: |
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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 07:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Lee Iococa: "If you can find a better built car, BUY IT!" |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 10:35 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. That Was Chrysler |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 12:37 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. Umm, that was Chrysler, not GM n/t |
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Rodger Dodger (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
11. The capitalist mantra has always been competition, market forces, and |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 07:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. OK but they'll have to agree to Japanese management teams. |
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freethought (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
15. They don't deserve a f_____g cent!! n/t |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-04-05 10:37 PM Response to Original message |
17. Welfare for Stockholders and White Collar Criminals |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
19. Lots of hidden glee on this thread at the demise of the Big Three |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 08:09 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Look, we're either a "free market economy" or we're not. |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 04:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. We're not. It isn't even close. |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 06:19 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. A huge number of those workers *ARE* Reagan Democrats |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 10:33 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Compassion available only to people who vote the way we want |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 07:24 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Look, how else will they learn what they brought on themselves? |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 03:47 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Seriously, you sound like someone with a comfortable job behind a keyboard |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 03:50 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Actually, you are *DEAD WRONG*. |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 03:58 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. I'm not asking you to share your personal life |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 06:17 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Then save your gratuitous insults for someone else. (NT) |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 08:54 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. This issue isn't about you |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 06:37 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. no reason to assume it's directed at the workers... |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 04:07 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. I agree with part of what you say |
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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-05-05 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
21. Mike Thompson toon on govt bailout of auto companies |
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radfringe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 03:55 AM Response to Original message |
27. ohhhh my - socialized medicine? |
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freestyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
29. The bailout should be national health care. Bail the rest of us out too. |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
31. Automakers want a bailout!!! A couple years ago when |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 08:17 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Oh, to add insult to injury, this week the company sent those |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-06-05 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
33. the money in that bailout is only going to finance |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
36. This seems appropriate to post. |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-07-05 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
40. Perhaps Ford could hire LL Cool J as their lobbyist |
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