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newgeography.com - 12/5/2008
Auto Bailout: Help Mississippi, Not Michigan
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We should be getting used to the depressing spectacle of once-great corporations begging for assistance from Washington. Yet perhaps nothing is more painful than to see General Motors and other big U.S.-based car companies – once exemplars of both American economic supremacy and middle-class ...
Six in 10 oppose auto bailout, poll shows
cnn.com - 12/4/2008
Six in 10 oppose auto bailout, poll shows
— cnn.com — Auto industry executives testify November 19 before Congress. (more) Six in 10 oppose auto bailout, poll shows
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money.cnn.com - 12/5/2008
61% of Americans oppose auto bailout, poll shows - Dec. 3, 2008
— money.cnn.com — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A majority of Americans oppose a bailout of the troubled U.S. auto industry,... according to a poll released Wednesday. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, conducted by telephone on Dec. 1-2 with nearly 1,100 people, showed ... (more) 61% of Americans oppose auto bailout, poll shows - Dec. ...

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Auto bailout bill dies in Senate
cnn.com - 12/12/2008
Auto bailout bill dies in Senate
— cnn.com — Sen. Tom Coburn, center, and other Republican senators raised objections to the auto bailout plan Wednesday.... (more) Auto bailout bill dies in Senate

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Hit & Run:  U.S. Manufacturing Is Dead, Right?

Daimnation!:  U.S. manufacturing myths

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U.S. Manufacturing Is Dead, Right?
Hit & Run — Wrong, says urban theorist Joel Kotkin, in a column excoriating any kind of bailout for the Big Three automakers. Indeed, until the globalization of the financial crisis, American manufacturing exports were reaching record levels. Overall, U.S. industry has become among the most productive in the world – output has doubled over the past 25 years, and productivity has grown at a rate twice that of the rest of the economy. Far from dead, our manufacturing sector is the world's largest, with 5% of the world's population producing five times their share in ...

U.S. manufacturing myths
Daimnation! — ... The conventional wisdom is that, aside from the "Big Three" automakers, the manufacturing sector in the United States is dead. And, as usual, the conventional wisdom is completely wrong: ...

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