Top Republican Senators Oppose Automaker Bailout

Associated Press / NYT ^ | November 16, 2008

[JaneNC]

Finally. Finally.

[Fred]

UAW chief urges $25 bln in U.S. auto health care support (Union bailout-payback for $400,000,000)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127523/posts

Who's your DADDY Obama??

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Why Doesn't Toyota USA Need A Bailout?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2130909/posts

[org.whodat]

Why Doesn't Toyota USA Need A Bailout?

To start with the CEO makes less than a million a year.

[BooBoo1000]

Let G.M. go T/U and then file for Bankruptcy, this will rid the company of the Union Contracts, and the Retiree Package, then they can come back leaner and meaner. Make cars the people want at a price they are willing to pay.

Good on Shelby, and the other Repbs.

[csmusaret]

What is a “top” Senator? Do Shelby and Kyl get two or three votes each?

[St. Louis Conservative]

Good. Now I’d like to hear a strong statement from McConnell.

[HondaCRF450]

Top Senatorr... so is Barney Frank is bottom congressman?

The San Francisco treat.

[ex-snook]

Wall Street bailouts only, please, we’re Republicans.

[dr_who]

Check out the map at the bottom of the page. Unions may not own the nation's workforce at present, but they own the Democrat parts of the country:

[econjack]

''The House is ready to do it,'' said Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. ''There's no downside to trying.''

Oh, I feel so much better knowing Barney Frank has blessed the plan. After all, for years he's been saying what a wonderful job was being done by management over at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. You know, on second thought, Barney wouldn't know a good idea if it bit him in the ass.

This bailout is not like Chrysler's of years ago. This would be an equity interest. This Marxist approach means that, despite the gov't inability to make the auto industry "go green" fast enough, with ownership they can dictate what's built. Pretty soon you'll be driving a new GM car powered by two gerbils in a squirrel cage.

The bailout simply postpones the auto execs from making hard decisions and telling the UAW it can no longer afford what the union demands. This is precisely what Pelosi, et al, want. With a bailout, the auto industry sidesteps the tought decisions is must make and it will continue to hemorrhage cash--yours and my cash. Wake up, you political dirtbags, that's MY money, not yours.

[dr_who]

Check out the map at the bottom of the page. Unions may not own the nation's workforce at present, but they own the Democrat parts of the country:

http://www.righttowork.org

[An Old Man]

They said an auto bailout would only postpone the industry's demise.

Yea! Finally someone else hears the sound of the Funeral Dirge.

They had a great run but let the Union pull them down.

[Sacajaweau]

Krauthammer said it out loud...Let them go under BECAUSE they caused their own demise. He continued: Toyota will absorb them...and we’ll still have USA made cars.

[proudofthesouth]

FYI - Shelby is a former Demonrat.

[SERKIT]

Buggy whip industry needs a few billion, too. Put ‘em on the list.

[dfwgator]

Right after slide rule manufacturers.

[pabianice]

After 20 Jan the Dems can do whatever they want. In two years they’ll be wearing a 200-pound albatross around their collective necks.

[An Old Man]

...and life goes on.

[CRBDeuce]

Top Republican Senators Oppose Automaker Bailout

ok, now What are Senators FOR? nevermind, pretty sure I'd rather hear from someone who knows how to come up with a solution! We know of the failed union business model....is there a non-union business model that could succeed, or is manufacturing due for termination?