BRIDGES TO NOWHERE: THE PUBLIC-WORKS SPENDING TRAP
'No' to Obama's experimental government
"What you see in FDR that I hope my team can emulate is not always getting it right, but projecting a sense of confidence, and a willingness to try things. And experiment in order to get people working again."
In Detroit, Failure's a Done Deal
"Instead, advocates of a "rescue" propose extending to Detroit the government's business model for the nation -- redistributing wealth from the successful to the failed, an implausible formula for prosperity."
Midnight Sun
"His "One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)" surely stands as one of the peaks of the great American songbook. Harold Arlen composed the music and Frank Sinatra contributed the definitive performance (on "Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely," 1958)."
Morality Before Economy? Since When?
"Those wretches who are debauching the youth of the country and murdering women and unborn babes, will soon be in the strong grip of government.”
$6.6 Trillion in Mortgages Were Wrapped into Mortgage-Backed Securities at Heart of Financial Crisis
Government sponsored enterprises, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, processed $4.6 trillion of the $6.6 trillion in mortgages now tied up in mortage-backed securities.
'Mass executions' in North Korean prisons
2005: Cuba fights AIDS with free drugs, not quarantine
How Obama Got Elected... Interviews With Obama Voters
Were some U.S. slave owners black?
Detroit Automakers a Relic of the Past: The Detroit Three will not be the last flagging enterprises to line up for government subsidy.
Breakdown
No UAW Bailout
The Bailout's Fault Lines
2005: Jobs bank programs -- 12,000 paid not to work
Showing posts with label Auto Industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Auto Industry. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Headlines: November 9, 2008
Questions swirl around potential stimulus plans
Pelosi and Reid Urge Aid for U.S. Automakers
Without U.S. aid, cash-burning GM will go bankrupt: analyst Automaker needs more than $25 billion technology loan from Uncle Sam, analyst claims; ‘bringing a Band-Aid to a train wreck’
U.S. Carmakers Said to Seek $50 Billion in U.S. Loans
In a sane world, these companies would lay off workers and would find a way to get rid of the unions that are dragging the companies down to destruction. They would have to become profitable again in ordee to remain in business. In 2008, GM will continue its unprofitable business practices with the help of a loan from the U.S. government.
Serve the State
"Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year."
Obama will soon be intervening in all our lives
Detroit’s Faustian Bargain
"It is, of course, no coincidence that the Big Three arrived at Washington’s doorstep together. All three have labored under “pattern bargaining” union contracts — Democrat-supported unions — that made their wage and pension costs unsustainable against non-union foreign automakers."
AIG in talks with Fed over new bail-out
Like Lincoln and FDR, Obama faces nation in crisis
After Push for Obama, Unions Seek New Rules
Does anyone remember the Wagner Act--and its consequences? (a depression within a depression)
A good definition of greed: wanting something for nothing.
Cost and Value of Education Will Plummet
Stop Foreclosures
The Arab world's nightmare
Pelosi and Reid Urge Aid for U.S. Automakers
Without U.S. aid, cash-burning GM will go bankrupt: analyst Automaker needs more than $25 billion technology loan from Uncle Sam, analyst claims; ‘bringing a Band-Aid to a train wreck’
U.S. Carmakers Said to Seek $50 Billion in U.S. Loans
In a sane world, these companies would lay off workers and would find a way to get rid of the unions that are dragging the companies down to destruction. They would have to become profitable again in ordee to remain in business. In 2008, GM will continue its unprofitable business practices with the help of a loan from the U.S. government.
Serve the State
"Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year."
Obama will soon be intervening in all our lives
Detroit’s Faustian Bargain
"It is, of course, no coincidence that the Big Three arrived at Washington’s doorstep together. All three have labored under “pattern bargaining” union contracts — Democrat-supported unions — that made their wage and pension costs unsustainable against non-union foreign automakers."
AIG in talks with Fed over new bail-out
Like Lincoln and FDR, Obama faces nation in crisis
After Push for Obama, Unions Seek New Rules
Does anyone remember the Wagner Act--and its consequences? (a depression within a depression)
A good definition of greed: wanting something for nothing.
Cost and Value of Education Will Plummet
Stop Foreclosures
The Arab world's nightmare
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