20 Nov 2008 at 5:59pm K P from Newmarket, Canada writes: I look in my local paper and see photos of 14 salespeople at a local Newmarket GM Dealer. I look at that dealers lot and see it full of pick up trucks, SUVs and Vans. Why we should give money to help those ...
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20 Nov 2008 at 5:59pm A local car dealer has a few suggestions to help the Big 3 automakers...without using your tax dollars. Congress held hearings this week to ?bail out? the auto industry. The big question is: Can we afford for one of the ?Big 3? to go into ...
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18 Nov 2008 at 5:54pm When Mitt Romney and John McCain were vying for the Republican nomination last January, the two men got into a widely reported argument over Michigan jobs. Straight-talking McCain raised the hackles of blue-collar workers when he said all those jobs ...
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18 Nov 2008 at 5:54pm I?ve been reading everything I could find on the proposed bailout of Detroit, trying to come to a definitive conclusion. Part of me wanted to let them fail as punishment for being so blind and obstinent for so long; another part of me worried about ...
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17 Nov 2008 at 5:55pm One of the interesting things to me about talking to other wonks about the bailout is that the wonks who support the bailout are, almost without exception, outside the beltway. All the analysts from left to right basically agree what should happen to ...
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17 Nov 2008 at 5:55pm Jessica Leigh / The Associated Press Workers cheer as the first completed Hummer H3 heads off the assembly line at the Shreveport GM plant in April 2005. On Tuesday, workers held a rally at the plant in support of GM's efforts to seek emergency ...
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17 Nov 2008 at 5:27pm This is what leadership in DC has been reduced to in the early years of the 21st century (the post-American century?): Congress demanding a bailout for the Ford, Chryler, and GM from the magical pool of $700 billion created just a few short weeks ago ...
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