Chrysler: Look at yourselves Republicans

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Chrysler: Look at yourselves Republicans
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Sat, 12-06-2008 - 8:55am

Looks like Chrysler, which is privately owned by rich Republicans, is pulling all its right-wing strings in DC to get it a piece of that auto bailout $$$.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/business/06chrysler.html?hp

Defense contractors. Big oil. Big pharma. Same thing for the past 8 years in which this Republican Administration has spent trillions and pulled every regulatory string to help its buds without any regard for everyone else. This is what you are about. While the top of the party goes on its personal feeding frenzy with your taxpayer dollars, they whip you up with issues like anti-stem cell research, anti-gay marriage, anti-liberal this and and liberal that. If you are a Republican making under 200K a year, you are getting played. Big time.

PS I am still for the auto bailout, but not to help rich Republicans. Rather I am strongly for it to help America because the terrible fallout due to one of these companies going under right now. I point this out to help Republicans understand their party's motivations and what their party is truly about.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 11-13-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 10:48am
I think that's an admission that debating you bears no fruit for the liberal POV. You have reasoned and informed arguments that they cannot counter effectively. Keep up the good fight.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 12:51pm

That isn't what I asked.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 1:00pm

I'd say anyone with this sort of record is a racist.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 2:19pm
ITA, and these Hooverite Republican Senators don't seem to mind when their states provide subsidies and tax cuts to foreign car makers. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-09-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 4:58pm

O'my that is really funny. Thank you so much for a good laugh!

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-09-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 4:59pm

I answered your questions.....


iVillage Member
Registered: 11-23-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 5:16pm
Good dodge and spin move. Are you faulting them or not? Do you want to bail out a mismanaged industry or not?
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." --Eric Hoffer
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iVillage Member
Registered: 04-24-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 7:06pm

It's funny you mention that.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 7:13pm

"Are you faulting them or not? Do you want to bail out a mismanaged industry or not?"

I am faulting management. I also am faulting our government for tying a hand behind the back of our industry by not picking up or at least controlling health care costs which make it harder to compete. Even your Wal-Mart is with me on that one.

But really you are stuck on fault. Fault is not the point here. The point is that regardless of who is at fault, if one of these suckers goes down it could make our already very bad economic crisis a lot worse. Millions of jobs would be lost. Millions more couldn't pay their mortgages. Millions would stop paying taxes and start collecting unemployment insurance. And millions would cut back their buying.

As for your parade of horribles if we bail them out, I am sure you would have said the same thing that Republicans said back in 1979. And you would have been dead wrong. Chrysler survived and churned out energy efficient cars, and the government made money. Fool me once (or get caught trying to!) . . .




Edited 12/14/2008 7:14 pm ET by soupyduck
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 12-14-2008 - 7:16pm
Bush is getting off the crazy wagon. He knows it's going over a cliff and he wants to disassociate himself to try to salvage his reputation. Oh well. Way too little way too late from the man who deregulated us into this crisis and tried to kill Social Security in the process - can you imagine if he had gotten his way and our retirees' retirement savings were invested in the stock market? Oh my.

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