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balloon-juice.com - 11/23/2008
The Auto Bailout
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Over at the Corner , all sorts of gruesome numbers regarding the woes of the Big Three, and the question I have to keep asking is why bail them out? I really do not understand how sending tens of billions on top of the 25 billion in loans to companies that have hundreds of billions od debt and ...
Republicans blast auto bailout plan
usatoday.com - 11/17/2008
Republicans blast auto bailout plan
— usatoday.com — "Just giving them $25 billion doesn't change anything," Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Senate's second-ranking Republican,... said on Fox News Sunday . "It just puts off for six months or so the day of reckoning." Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the senior ... (more) Republicans blast auto bailout plan

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heritage.org - 11/19/2008
Auto Bailout Ignores Excessive Labor Costs
— heritage.org — Detroit autoworkers have substantially more benefits than most Americans. These benefits have been a major force driving... the Detroit automakers' current fiscal woes. (more) Auto Bailout Ignores Excessive Labor Costs
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Of endings and beginnings and bailouts
The Moderate Voice — ... Recently, John Cole at Balloon Juice has asked in regards to the Big Three automakers in the United State, “why bail them out?” There are some who argue that car manufacturing is a “strategic industry” that cannot be allowed to leave the United States. ...

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Newshoggers.com — ... Recently, John Cole at Balloon Juice has asked in regards to the Big Three automakers in the United State, “why bail them out?” There are some who argue that car manufacturing is a “strategic industry” that cannot be allowed to leave the United States. ...

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