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slate.com - 11/15/2008

GM, Ford, and Chrysler are a national disgrace, but we still need to save them. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine

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Ford Explorers and F150 trucks Ford vehicles Why not just let General Motors, and perhaps Ford and Chrysler, just go bankrupt? Even as auto industry executives and their political allies clamor for a bailout, the anti-bailout chorus is growing louder. The shrewd John Gapper makes the case in his ...

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online.wsj.com - 11/19/2008

GM, Ford May Set Up Caps on Executive Pay

— online.wsj.com — The chief executives of Detroit's Big Three auto makers appearing before Congress today don't make the kind... of money that Wall Street bosses pull down, but they could still face tough questions about executive compensation. The legislation under ... (more) GM, Ford May Set Up Caps on Executive Pay

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clusterstock.com - 11/11/2008

Don't Do It, Obama. Don't Save Ford (F) And General Motors (GM)

— clusterstock.com — ObamaPresident.png President Elect Obama, you're about to get your first big economic test: Cave to the anguished... cries of the crippled US car industry and waste tens of billions of taxpayer dollars postponing the inevitable. OR Just let the crippled ... (more) Don't Do It, Obama. Don't Save Ford (F) And General ...

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query.nytimes.com - 11/17/2008

Ford and Chrysler Outpace Japanese in Reducing Costs - New York Times

— query.nytimes.com — Ford and Chrysler have increased the efficiency of their factories and workers so much in recent years... that their basic cost of producing a car is now less than that of their Japanese rivals, according to a study published today. Auto analysts have ... (more) Ford and Chrysler Outpace Japanese in Reducing Costs - ...

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Good Intent, Bad Faith
The Moderate Voice — ... across like he does. God knows I can suffer from the same problem. [After I wrote this I noticed in the comments he explicitly talks about supporting unemployment insurance and the like.] But quite honestly, this is how 95% of the conservative approach comes across on the economic crisis. And it’s almost always by people that don’t have much of a personal stake; there is no hint of self sacrifice to help others. There isn’t even much of a reflection about individual circumstances that might change the calculus. This indifference drives even highly principled liberals completely ...

Big 3 Bail-out thoughts
Newshoggers.com — ... the potential benefits here it normally would). That sort of massive job wipeout would – in addition to literally decimating large regions of our country – trigger massive economic dislocation. ...