frum.nationalreview.com - 11/13/2008
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Don't bail out the automakers, I urge on "Marketplace" today:
Time was when General Motors alone ranked among the largest employers in the United Stat... . . .
powerlineblog.com - 11/17/2008
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powerlineblog.com —
Jim Manzi has done some of the best
analysis of the proposed bailout of GM, Ford and...
Chrysler--or, one should more properly say, bailout of the United Auto Workers, otherwise slated for extinction. Here , he addresses the theory that the Big Three ...
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No UAW Bailout
news.yahoo.com - 11/14/2008
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news.yahoo.com —
AP - Senate Democrats pressed ahead on Thursday
with plans to vote next week on a $25...
billion emergency loan plan for U.S. carmakers as the auto industry and business groups readied a lobbying onslaught to overcome GOP opposition.
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Democrats hunt for support for auto bailout
(AP)
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 11/14/2008
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com —
Freddie wants me to talk about the human
costs of not having the auto bailout. That's easy: ...
they're terrible. Lots of people will lose their jobs. Those that don't will have their expectations for an upper-middle class life ...
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Where's The Journalism Bailout?
Ross Douthat —
David Frum, on the fate of GM: Last week, the stock of Las Vegas Sands Corporation collapsed.
Bankruptcy seems a real possibility. Indeed, the whole casino gambling
industry in Nevada is facing the worst crisis in at least a generation,
maybe ever. Casino gambling directly employs more people than the
domestic automobile industry. Add in the supply chain for both
industries, and casinos still employ almost half as many people as the
automobile sector. So what about a bailout for the casino industry? Ridiculous! Right? But why right? More ...
Government-run US auto industry? Bail out the casinos?
Daimnation! —
1) Charles Krauthammer:
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If you think we have economic troubles today, consider the effects of nationalizing an industry of this size, but now run by bureaucrats issuing production quotas to fit five-year plans to meet politically mandated fuel-efficiency standards -- to lift us to the sunny uplands of the coming green utopia...
2) David Frum:
[...]
Last week, the stock of Las Vegas Sands Corporation collapsed. Bankruptcy seems a real possibility. Indeed, the whole casino gambling industry in ...
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