Comments on: Welcome Back, My Friends . . . NE AG in Car Dealers’ Pockets

By: angrystan

angrystan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:33:26 +0000

“The Texas AG announced last week that he too will bring a suit against GM’s plan.”

All I see coming out of this is the reopening of Jamestown and the closure of Arlington. If the corruption in Texas no longer works, exactly zero reasons exist to do business there.

“So Obama selling everyone out to save the UAW has nothing to do with their political support of him?”

Everyone save the people who live in the communities and states with a large industrial presence, the other businesses and services in those areas, and the tax base of the same areas. Perhaps 30% unemployment, triggering the CDS gambit payoffs, and the widespread elimination of the country’s capacity for manufacturing and war at a profoundly greater cost would be good under some rationale. Somehow, I do not fully comprehend the point.

By: ruckover

ruckover — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:51:11 +0000

taxman,
there are now about 500,00 UAW members, right? Obama received just under 70,000,000 votes. Do you think a president who will run again would alienate 70 million voters just to placate half a million UAW members?

Perhaps, just perhaps, Obama and Bush thought that the hit on our economy would be catastrophic if GM and Chrysler went under quickly. They both might well be wrong. Perhaps a freefall into chapter 7 would have been the best thing, but perhaps, the two presidents were trying to do something positive for the country as a whole.

Not every action is nefarious. Sometimes people just see things differently.

By: johnthacker

johnthacker — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:33:45 +0000

You might wonder why there are so many contributors listed as “homemaker” on the PAC’s list, but I couldn’t possibly comment.

Ah, House of Cards and Francis Urquhart. “You might very well think that; I couldn’t possibly comment.”

By: taxman100

taxman100 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:55:24 +0000

So Obama selling everyone out to save the UAW has nothing to do with their political support of him?

By: Strippo

Strippo — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:47:48 +0000

Hey, what’s the point of contributing to a political campaign if you can’t expect a little brain salad surgery in return?

By: OldandSlow

OldandSlow — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:43:37 +0000

Here in the flyover states the big car dealers have some serious stroke with state governments. Don’t underestimate the power of this lobby. The Texas AG announced last week that he too will bring a suit against GM’s plan.