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Progressive Breakfast: The States Are Hungry
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... Michigan native and longtime GM antagonist Michael Moore joins the nationalization call: "What I'm proposing has worked before. The national rail system was in shambles in the '70s. The government took it over. A decade later it was turning a profit, so the government returned it to private/public hands, and got a couple billion dollars put back in the treasury ... ...

Bailout Alternatives -- Thoughts From Outside of the American Automaker Box
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Christine Bowman Remember "Yankee ingenuity"? Share your ideas for the automakers in the "Comments" section below.  The "Big 3" really need to hear from consumers. The CEOs are pleading their case to Congress, but have consumers had their say yet? Consumers are taxpayers, and we/they are being asked to rescue the distressed auto companies. Consumers also are workers who stand to lose jobs if the American automobile industry is allowed to go belly up. Consumers are investors, too, in auto-industry-related stocks. Everyday Americans stand to lose plenty, ...

Offshoring and the Auto Industry
The Washington Note — (photo credit: Lou Linwei for The New York Times) The U.S. government is about to kick $15 billion over to the U.S. auto industry. And what we have seen with all of the bailout cases thus far -- from AIG to Citibank -- is that that amount is probably just a down payment on a future bigger draw. Michael Moore has compellingly argued that the best way to save the American auto industry is to force it to choke on its mistakes and bad management -- and change. In a public letter, Moore has offered the shocking truth that anyone could buy the entire American auto industry for ...

Steve Clemons: Offshoring and the Auto Industry
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — (photo credit: Lou Linwei for The New York Times) The U.S. government is about to kick $15 billion over to the U.S. auto industry. And what we have seen with all of the bailout cases thus far -- from AIG to Citibank -- is that that amount is probably just a down payment on a future bigger draw. Michael Moore has compellingly argued that the best way to save the American auto industry is to force it to choke on its mistakes and bad management -- and change. In a public letter, Moore has offered the shocking truth that anyone could buy the entire American auto industry for less than $3 ...

Pen-Elayne on the Web — Holiday Blogaround I honestly thought I was going to get this done by (and in honor of) Steve's birthday, but that and so much else has gone by the wayside, so let's just get into our catch-up, shall we? Oh, but before we start, I'd like to pass along this joke my mom forwarded via email. Forgive the ethnic stereotypes, but ...