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Government, UAW To Own 89% Of GM In Restructuring
Start Thinking Right ^ | April 27, 2009 | Michael Eden

Posted on 04/27/2009 2:37:46 PM PDT by Michael Eden

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To: tacticalogic

Yes, but paying higher taxes to pay for your government supported competition is “change you can believe in.”

GM: the NEW “GSE” (after Fannie and Freddie) to lead the way to tomorrow’s disaster.


41 posted on 04/27/2009 3:12:31 PM PDT by Michael Eden (Better to starve free than be a fat slave. Semper Vigilanis)
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To: Michael Eden

I was already set not to buy another GM car or truck again if I could avoid doing so. Ford got the Escape SUV working pretty well and I’ll be sticking with those as long as I can buy used ones in good shape.


42 posted on 04/27/2009 3:16:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: dfwgator

Hitler: “And how do you get a regular-sized German family in such a subcompact car?”


43 posted on 04/27/2009 3:17:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Hitler: “And how do you get a regular-sized German family in such a subcompact car?”

"And can you make a special version, just for Jews? I'll show you where to put the exhaust pipe."

44 posted on 04/27/2009 3:19:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: dfwgator

You know, I am sure Volkswagon just cringes every time these kinds of pictures surface. TO a lesser extent Mercedes Benz, as Volkswagon built ‘the peoples car’.

Never had one, never will. It is good not to own something that Hitler was excited about.


45 posted on 04/27/2009 3:23:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: truthandlife
I will not buy another GM product again if this is the case

Actually it sounds like you and I will be paying for GM via our taxes for years to come...
A bizzaro world. A foreign entity has taken over our Government, and the US Constitution is no longer operative.

46 posted on 04/27/2009 3:25:18 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Michael Eden

The Obama plan for GM is, like its author, putridly fascist.


47 posted on 04/27/2009 3:26:49 PM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: devere
Obviously the bondholders will insist on a bankruptcy filing...

Unless they are idiots, hamstrung by Obama, or both.

48 posted on 04/27/2009 3:27:48 PM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: Michael Eden

As Rush has said over and over, the auto manufacturers have been taken over by government and government is setting them up to be given to the UAW. A match made in heaven.


49 posted on 04/27/2009 3:28:49 PM PDT by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: devere
Are they going to be sent to GITMO if they say no?

Not literally, but perhaps figuratively.

50 posted on 04/27/2009 3:29:40 PM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: El Cid
Actually it sounds like you and I will be paying for GM via our taxes for years to come...

If that's the case then I should be able to go to the car lot and pick whatever GM product I want.

What's going to really suck about this is that the government will mandate discounted loans and rebates for certain elements of society. It will be just another form of reparations.
51 posted on 04/27/2009 3:30:18 PM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: Michael Eden
This is exactly what I predicted would happen when GM got government bail out money. Obama is true to his ideology. The workers of the world will own the means of production. My next prediction is that the government will set about to (complete) the destruction of any legitimate competition to the worker's GM.
52 posted on 04/27/2009 3:31:41 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: El Cid

I will not buy another GM product again if this is the case
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Actually it sounds like you and I will be paying for GM via our taxes for years to come...
A bizzaro world. A foreign entity has taken over our Government, and the US Constitution is no longer operative.

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But, but, but, but, that would be taxation without representation. And the mainstream media said that nothing like that was going on when they attacked the tea party rallies.

Did you vote for this stuff? I don’t remember voting for this stuff...


53 posted on 04/27/2009 3:34:40 PM PDT by Michael Eden (Better to starve free than be a fat slave. Semper Vigilanis)
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To: Michael Eden
My next family car (not truck) was going to be either a Caddilac CTX-V or a new Camaro .... after this plan?

Hell no, no way, no how, NEVER.

54 posted on 04/27/2009 3:42:14 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (We either Free America ourselves, or it is midnight for humanity for a thousand years.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Hmmm. If the UAW owns GM, could Ford claim some kind of conflict of interest in having UAW workers at all? Maybe Ford should insist on splitting up the UAW?


55 posted on 04/27/2009 3:42:33 PM PDT by slowhandluke (It's hard work to be cynical enough in this age)
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To: aliquando

United airlines redux...


56 posted on 04/27/2009 3:46:44 PM PDT by RobRoy
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To: edge10

The company will be toast. A lot of people will stop buying their cars out of principle. Few will buy on principle.

This is a joke, but really one in a long line of jokes.


57 posted on 04/27/2009 3:50:18 PM PDT by RobRoy
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To: KoRn

I disagree.


58 posted on 04/27/2009 3:51:55 PM PDT by RobRoy
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To: randomhero97; Michael Eden
It will be just another form of reparations.

I call it communism, and no, I didn't vote for it either.
Its been a silent coup; but after winning the Cold War, we've turned over the reins of our government to the reds...
Although it is true that we keep our real treasures in Heaven, and not on Earth (where moth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break in and steal) ... It still sucks when you've been robbed.

59 posted on 04/27/2009 3:54:03 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: tacticalogic
>>Now the other automakers are faced with having to pay taxes to fund their competition.<<

Really? I agree. Reminds me of this:


60 posted on 04/27/2009 3:56:23 PM PDT by RobRoy
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