Posted on 11/17/2008 3:40:31 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Kit Bond is sending signals that he will in fact support the Big Labor Union/Auto-maker/Detroit bailout.
I urge all Missouri Freepers to contact Senator Bond's office and urge him to reconsider:
Phone:
DC Office: 202-224-5721 KC Office: 816-471-7141 St. Louis Office: 314-725-4484 Springfield Office: 417-864-8258 SE Missouri Office: 573-334-7044 Columbia Office: 573-442-8151
Here is the link to the contact form on his website:
http://bond.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.ContactForm
Gah!! Thx for the heads up.
RINO!
What’s the big deal?
Our President and our Congress officially turned the USA into a Socialist State with the Bail Out Bill.
I have already emailed him. I intend to call tomorrow.
His speech in the Senate today made me physically ill.
Think of it this was, instead of calling it a bail out, call it a subsidy as in a Farm Subsidy. At least the government wont be paying them not to build cars like they pay the farmers not to grow crops.
Don't you realize how manufacturing has been decimated in this country? The arsenal of democracy is crumbling under our feet. A loan to help past this rough patch is not out of line. I can't stand the UAW, but this is bigger than that. The government is in part responsible for this mess with their mortgage laws.
Think of it this way, instead of calling it a bail out, call it a subsidy as in a Farm Subsidy. At least the government wont be paying them not to build cars like they pay the farmers not to grow crops.
Manufacturing is part of the 20th century economy. Economies evolve. We started out as an agrarian society, then moved on to industrial manufacturing and we are now moving on to an information based/service based/financial based/intellectual property based economy.
Chapter 11 bankruptcy seems like a good route. Why can’t they go into bankruptcy, break the union contracts, restructure their company, and start anew? Honda, Toyota, and Mercedes are thriving in the southern non-union right-to-work states.
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Attention Missouri Freepers: Kit Bond is Supporting the Auto (Union) Bailout
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Not a really a shock.
Bond is better than having almost any other Democratic Senator.
But he is a deliverer of pork, extraordinaire.
He even lined up at the trough to get Fed money for the rebuilding
of The Missouri Theater here in Columbia, MO. It was a swell thing
if you’re one of the artsy-fartsy type involved in the rennovation.
Nothing more than “made-up” jobs like in the Great Depression.
He’s probably angling to get a mandate into the bailout to re-open
some of the shuttered auto plants in MO.
I’ve lost track, but I think there’s a Ford (truck?) plant that closed
in Kansas City and maybe a GM plant in St. Louis as well.
Manufacturing adds value to stuff. This is how wealth is created. Paper pushing does not cut it.
In a global economy, every country does not need a manufacturing sector. Frankly, I don’t know why they don’t outsource ALL the factory work to Mexico and produce them for 1/10th the cost. Then we could by GMC Yukons for $8,000 a pop.
Gee, with Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?!?
With the manufacturing goes the engineering. The Auto companies did not create the finical crisis that has walloped them. The banks getting the bailouts without strings, your precious paper pushers, is baloney. Loaning the Big 3 some money is a something that has to be done. Just a loan.
I agree on the bailout for the banks. I was against it. However, banks are the lifeblood of the entire capitalist system, so there is better rationale for bailing them out.
Can you point me to where in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution Congress is authorized to 'lend' money to a business?
Thanks in advance.
L
Dang, if you are going to start asking those guys in Washington to start reading that Constitution thingy that is going to put a real cramp on their style of “running the nation.”
Oh well, we can't say we weren't warned.
L
Clay County is where the Ford Claycomo plant is located. Graves (R) won that county by 15.8%. McCain won barely by 0.8%. Of course not all, or even a majority of workers at the plant may reside in that county but most of the neighboring counties had similar results for the surrounding areas.
Its the ability to claim, “I went to bat for you” that is part of the mess of political process.
They fail to see that Graves, who polled well there, was a vocal NO on the bailout plans fighting tooth and nail for more conservative alternates.
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