norunnyeggs.com - 5/9/2009
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Bloomberg is reporting that the dissident senior creditors of Chrysler have caved and will not be fighting for anything more than the 29% that the Obama administration initially offered them. The quote of the day is from Tom Lauria, which was representing the group, “After a great deal of ...
rasmussenreports.com - 5/4/2009
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Just 18% of Americans think the United Auto
Workers union and the federal government will do a...
good job running Chrysler and General Motors, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Forty-seven percent (47%) believe the union ...
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Only 18% Say UAW, Government Will Do Good Job Running ...
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Obama's Chicago Politics Wins; Chrysler's Remaining Senior Credit Holders Cave
Wizbang —
... and, quite frankly, agony, they concluded they just don't have critical mass to withstand the enormous pressure and machinery of the U.S. government," Lauria said today in an interview. It's a shocking reality that the president of the United States is trashing US bankruptcy law in an effort to payback his protected constituency, the UAW. I notice that the media and the left who just a few years ago were screaming HALLIBURTON! are no where to be found on this issue. More at No Runny Eggs
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