Why Do These Guys Hate American Workers?

"BOYCOTT CONSERVATIVE RADIO TALK SHOW HOSTS WHO WANT
YOU TO FAIL"...it's the American way....

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http://jeffersonblog.history.org/doe...ecision-making

No...

I fully understand the angle they're coming from...AND I agree with it!...

If GM SUCCEEDS as a company that threw capitalism into the dumpster due to government destroying current private free-market entities (like Ford, who did NOT ask for bailout money), then the govrnment will ultimately do that to MORE industries...

...Thus removing free-market enterprise and investment from the country altogether...The same products that BUILT this country for the last 230+ years...

If GM fails, (and I approve of it's failure 100%), it will show the government that taking over free-market enterprises clashes with the principles on which this country was founded...

Simple question that I've asked on this forum before but never got an answer yet...

"When was the last (FIRST!) time the government involved itself in free-market enterprises and ran it successfully?"...(Answer - NEVER)...

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Wrong:The Chrysler Bailout was "government involvement",perhaps not at the level we see today but none the less..it was involvement.

The year was 1979. Jimmy Carter was in the White House. G. William Miller was Treasury Secretary. And Chrysler was in trouble. Would the federal government help save he nation's number three automaker?

Economist John Kenneth Galbraith suggested that taxpayers be "accorded an appropriate equity or ownership position" for the loan. "This is thought a reasonable claim by people who are putting up capital."

Under the leadership of Lee Iacocca, Chrysler doubled its corporate average miles-per-gallon (CAFE). In 1978, Chrysler introduced the first domestically produced front-wheel drive small cars: the Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon.

In 1983, Chrysler paid off the loans that had been guaranteed by US taxpayers. The Treasury was also $350 million richer.

What Was The Chrysler Bailout? - Political History: The Chrysler Bail Out

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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"-FDR

http://jeffersonblog.history.org/doe...ecision-making

And here is the error in your comparison...

What we are seeing now is NOT A LOAN...

It's a takeover!...

IF...IF IF IF IF IF...The government handed over TARP (or any other) loans to Chrysler and they ran their business where they either defaulted on the loans or paid them back in full, you'd have a viable comparison...

But that's NOT what is happening...

In your scenario of Carter's era, they government did NOT interfere with the day-to-day operations...nor did they influence company policy (or in this case, dictate)...

They simply said "Here's some money...get your ducks in a row and pay us back." (and through the brilliance of Iacocca, someone who was NOT forced into the position by the government, took the ball and ran with it...like a champ)...

Not anywhere close to what's happening now...

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As I stated..The Chrysler Bailout was "government involvement",perhaps not at the level we see today but none the less..it was involvement! At that time the situation though similar,did not rise to anywhere near what we are seeing today.I still believe we must not let the auto industry fail. I would have preferred simply backing a loan to them as opposed to directly financing them! To be sure...the first "bailout" is a far cry from what we've seen today but to simply let Chrysler and GM fail without .."even minimal" intervention would be capricious and irresponsible.

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http://jeffersonblog.history.org/doe...ecision-making

I "Twittered" it, facebooked, and Stumbled it.
You betcha!

There aren't enough warm bodies left in the Republican Party to even clean up the bloody mess they've made for themselves.

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So, your economic and political principles are more important than American jobs. I see.

I know I'm sort-of pulling a fast punch with this, but I just don't understand how keeping traditions is more important to right-wingers than life itself as it would seem.

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U.S. postal system? NASA? I know the U.S. postal system no longer recieves government money and is a self-sufficient business (until they ask for a bailout) but they were started by the government and enjoy a certain level of government protection and involvement that their competition does not.

NASA currently recieves very little from federal funding, percentage wise, but still a child of the federal government.

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“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” - Mark Twain

Where does the USPS get the money to cover their deficit?

U.S. Postal Service Blames Weak Economy For Further Job Cuts - cbs11tv.com

PostalReporter.com Blog NAPS: USPS May Lose $3 Billion By Year’s End

And, they may be getting a bailout...
(well, they just want to rob retirees for the funds)

National Association of Postal Supervisors Legislative and Regulatory Update

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You are talking about supporting your theory. But you don't mention the fact that it would economically destroy thousands of lives. This is a good reason the right isn't in charge.
Ya know when everything looked like it was coming apart at the seams at the end of the last republican administration it was pretty well agreed across the spectrum that government intervention was needed to support the economy before it crumbled. We would have been in the ****er had there not been intervention. But as I predicted the right has a memory about as long as their....
Its embarrasing to watch the right biting at each other. Saying moronic things like boycott America. I never realized how crazy they could get. They would destroy peoples lives to prove their theory. They are sick puppies and don't deserve to lead the country.

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