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Barney Frank On Auto Bailouts
CBS News ^
| 12/11/2008
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Posted on 12/12/2008 1:46:43 AM PST by ComputerGuy
Propping up ailing car companies is not what the government’s bailout for Detroit’s car makers is really about, says the man in the middle of the controversial plan.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 110th; autobailout; automakers; barneyfag; barneyfrank
Barney weighs in on the the auto company bailout.
To: ComputerGuy
It would be a bail out for the UAW, not the car companies, simply put, the Unions have bankrupted the geese that laid the golden eggs by impossible demands for a small percentage of Americans who now stand to lose not only their cushy perks but their homes and jobs. Greed never pays.
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posted on
12/12/2008 1:52:45 AM PST
by
yoe
(America First and Foremost!)
To: yoe
Agreed. Barney's new line is 'Union workers are people too'.
This whole thing is a mess. I think we're between a hard and a rock place.
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posted on
12/12/2008 1:57:53 AM PST
by
ComputerGuy
(not my real name)
To: ComputerGuy
If ‘Union workers are people too’, why can't they work for the same wages and benefits as other American Auto Workers who make Toyota's, Nissan's and Honda's in the United States?
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posted on
12/12/2008 2:46:05 AM PST
by
wmileo
(I miss Ronald Wilson Reagan. POTUS #40)
To: wmileo
Because they're special
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posted on
12/12/2008 2:51:39 AM PST
by
ComputerGuy
(not my real name)
To: ComputerGuy
Barney wants a “pink car” maybe he should sell mary kay/avon.
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posted on
12/12/2008 3:14:45 AM PST
by
personalaccts
(Is George W going to protect the border?)
To: yoe
The UAW will not make any concessions on their contracts. To me, that says it all. They made their bed - let them try to sleep in it.
Steve on F&F mentioned the number of people (720,000) that are in the union, plus more in the ancillary companies that would be impacted. Why should the millions of taxpayers have to pay to support those in the union?
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posted on
12/12/2008 3:24:34 AM PST
by
mathluv
( Conservative first and foremost, republican second)
To: ComputerGuy
Barney Frank is SO FAR OUT TO LUNCH that he must be dining on an asteroid travelling in another galaxy. He suffers from a complete intellectul disconnect with respect to the realities of business and basic economics.
A perfect example of government without a clue.
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posted on
12/12/2008 5:14:30 AM PST
by
Senator John Blutarski
(The progress of government: republic, democracy, technocracy, bureaucracy, plutocracy, kleptocracy,)
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