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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"Union workers at the Big Three get about $55 per hour in wages and benefits, compared with $45 per hour for nonunion workers at the American plants of Honda or Toyota. One reason for the gap is that the Detroit labor force is older, and health and other benefits are always more expensive for a 50-year-old worker than for one half that age."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/opinion/14kristof.html?_r=1
Interesting data point in Kristof's spot-on editorial today.
Another interesting observation in the same editorial:
"I lived in Tokyo in the 1990s, as perfectly reasonable arguments for government restraint led to acquiescence in the face of escalating economic disasters. Anyone who lived through Japan’s “lost decade” understands that the risks of inaction are greater than the risks of action."
By the way, I trust Kristof a lot more than Friedman who stupidly wrote supportively of the war in Iraq, "America just needed to hit someone" or some such trash. Sure enough Friedman's editorial today is equally incoherent. The man is one of the most overrated columnists, next to all the WSJ right wingers who justified every step into this financial crisis.
I'm still rolling and laughing about this situation.
That is the problem that I have we should not be providing solutions to private companies at all.
There's a good deal of b.s. out there about the unions' contributions to the problem.
Sopal
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"They can't recover fully but let's not lie and call names. You can fully look at GMs financials and see the mess they are in. It is not the taxpayers job to fix it."
I'm not calling you any names friend. As for the public figures and media folks - sorry but I'll call them all the names I want, just as you call your favorites names. They are big kids and can handle it - that's why they put themselves out there and get paid the big bucks.
I bet you would have been against the last bailout of Chrysler and said it would never work like the other Republicans back then did. And you would have been dead wrong. By the way, that's not name calling. That's my opinion. And it's also a fact that the Republicans were against the bailout and wrong last time just like they are probably wrong this time.
What a coincidence that the leading opponents this time are Republican Senators from Southern States with foreign auto manufacturers who stand to benefit and who get state subsidies no less!
Those Senators should recuse themselves instead of filibustering - remember how the Republicans used to rant about filibustering until they smashed the record on filibustering this session LOL! And there they go again.
My how effective and competent those Fox Republican politicians are. And honest and unhypocritical. And so right on, like about the WMD in Iraq. And full of honest family values.
Every taxpayer should be against it.
"There's a good deal of b.s. out there about the unions' contributions to the problem"
Yes there is.
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