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meisje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:30 PM
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GM will not get bailout money!
according to pudge

Since the word "bailout" is toxic, what else are they going to call it???


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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:32 PM
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1. Job creation incentives
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:32 PM
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2. Economic stimulus trickle-down emergency job-securitization funding.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:33 PM
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3. It should be called CORPORATE WELFARE!
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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:37 PM
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6. It is called corporate welfare but for some odd reason corporate welfare
isn't looked down on by nit wits, after all corporations earned their welfare they pay 95% of the taxes. :silly:
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:39 PM
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9. Those nitwits have been conned by those who dangle the proverbial carrot before them. They never ge...
it!
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last1standing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:35 PM
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4. If you mean Drudge, his track record isn't that great lately.
Hell, its never been all that good when you think about it.

I wouldn't bet that the deal is off until I saw it from a real news operation, not some overblown gossip column.
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midnight armadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:37 PM
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5. that means chapter 7 for Chrysler
...according to some analysts.
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metapunditedgy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:38 PM
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8. That would be too bad; I grew up in MI and Chrysler was best of the 3. n/t
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Mojorabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 09:46 PM
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12. I would not mind
govt intervention if strings were put upon the company to make a really fuel efficient car.
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metapunditedgy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:37 PM
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7. Something meaningless like "The Grow America Plan" n/t
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meisje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:40 PM
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10. "This is not your newborn's tarp"
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:45 PM
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11. Idiot Drudge
GM just won't get the $10 billion to buy Chrysler. It's still eligible for a piece of the $25 billion fund Congress is assembling for automakers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/business/03gm.html?ref=business
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