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Indydem

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5. Bullcrap

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 11:07 AM

Mar 2013

If GM (a private company owned for profit) would have filed for bankruptcy, other companies would have purchased it, it would have reorganized, or others would have picked over its bones. A million jobs? Not American jobs, thats for damn sure.

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Tesla Arranges to Repay U.S. Loans Five Years Early [View all] The Straight Story Mar 2013 OP

so when is GM going to payback all the money it got from the ... taxpayers? nt msongs Mar 2013 #1

Never. We lost money. Indydem Mar 2013 #2

No, we saved 1 million jobs, saved billions in welfare spending, and prevented untold human misery. SunSeeker Mar 2013 #3

Bullcrap Indydem Mar 2013 #5

Not bullcrap. NOBODY was offering money. THAT IS WHY THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO STEP IN. SunSeeker Mar 2013 #6

NOT AMERICAN JOBS - JOBS Indydem Mar 2013 #7

Utter nonsense. No links to support this, because it's fabricated, wholecloth. nt Romulox Mar 2013 #10

We gave 10 times that money to the banks. Go complain about that. Romulox Mar 2013 #9

GM doesn't owe the taxpayers a dime. Deal with it. Romulox Mar 2013 #8

K&R SunSeeker Mar 2013 #4