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Cash for Clunkers May Cost Up to $45,354 Per Vehicle

You are STILL drinking that kool-aid?

We were ATTACKED, not attached, on 9-11 by Al-Queda and the Taliban in Afganistan, NOT IRAQ!


On Aug 01 01:00 PM miketobias01 wrote:

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> Are you for real ....."His arguments are like the ones Bush made
> going into Irag." We were attached on 9-11 or did you forget about
> 2900 plus people that died that day! Please don't go there.
> As far as "this program!" Take a look at Germans Program that is
> really close to this one .....It was suppost to be a one time thing
> and I think there in there third year of there program! It don't
> work.
> The Government needs to get out of the peoples way..... Let the weak
> companys fail . lower capital gain tax, and taxes in general.
> Period.
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As GM Goes, So Goes the Nation (Part 2)

How many times will you post this same meaningless stupid post?


On Feb 26 08:34 AM The Mad Hedge Fund Trader wrote:

> I’ll tell you what GM’s problem is. My dad was a religious lifetime
> GM customer, buying a new Oldsmobile every five years. Once he even
> flew to Detroit for a factory tour and drove his new prize home.
> Thirty years ago I told him he was doing GM no favors by buying their
> cars, and the only way to force them to improve a deteriorating product
> was to buy better made German and Japanese vehicles. This was right
> after the State of California had forced auto makers to install seatbelts
> on new cars. Airbags and ABS brake systems were still years away.
> His response, “I didn’t fight the Japs for four years so I could
> buy their cars.” (He was a Marine). GM’s problem is that my Dad passed
> away seven years ago. Of the original 17 million WWII veterans, 1,500
> a day are dying, and there are only 1.5 million left. All of them
> loved Detroit because it built great Jeeps, Sherman tanks, and half
> tracks. Their kids prefer German, Japanese, Italian, Korean, and
> soon, Chinese, and Indian vehicles. It is no coincidence that GM’s
> problems really accelerated with the passing of the “greatest generation.”
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As GM Goes, So Goes the Nation (Part 2)

Quit repeating the LIE.

"In 1953, at the peak of its dominance, its President, Charles Wilson, declared before Congress that what was good for the country was good for GM and vice versa"

Charles Wilson, was asked at his confirmation hearing before congress, that if something was good for America and bad for GM, which would he choose. His reply was, "If it is good for America it is good for GM", meaning that even if a decision might hurt GM in the short term, in the long run the health of the American economy was good for GM.

It had nothing to do with hubris or anything else, it was a good answer to the question.

This lie is the poster child for all that is wrong with the news media in the USA. If it sounds good, it does not have to be true.

Have some small amount of integrity and publish a retraction.

Recent Policy Decisions and a Greater Depression

I disagree with the assumption that the mortgage crisis started this mess. Manufacturing has gone from 20% to 10% of our economy over the last decade. What do you think happens to the housing market when 10,000 auto workers lose their jobs?

We need to make US manufacturing compedetive with the rest of the world, then people will have the wealth to buy homes.

No, instead we'll do a rant about the UAW and corporate jets and ignore the fundamental problems with the economy.

Pay no attention tot he man behind the curtain!