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The 'Cash for Clunkers' Law Looks Like a Lemon (BusinessWeek) (businessweek.com) - July 02, 2009
When President Barack Obama made the "Cash for Clunkers" bill law on June 24, supporters like Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) hailed it as a great way to modernize America's car fleet and "accelerate nat…

More Trade and Economic Freedom Pages (Heritage Foundation) (heritage.org) - July 01, 2009
Leaders from the U.S., France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Russia, Canada, and the United Kingdom are scheduled to meet July 8-10 in Italy for the latest G-8 summit meeting. Looming ever larger on the eco…

The New War Over Sotomayor (Black Voices) (bvblackspin.com) - July 01, 2009
Filed under: News , Politics , Race and Civil Rights The political war over Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination as the next Supreme Court justice may have gained some vigor this week with the latest ru…

Nortel retirees call for emergency legislation to protect pensions (Perth Courier) (perthcourier.com) - June 30, 2009
Nortel pensioners shouldn’t expect any relief from the federal government, said Carleton Mississippi Mills MP Gordon O’Connor.

Your views (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal) (lubbockonline.com) - June 30, 2009
World doesn't share negative attitude

Political Notebook: U.S. should get out of the auto business, Walz says (Post-Bulletin) (postbulletin.com) - June 29, 2009
 First District Congressman Tim Walz is making it clear he wants the federal government out of the car business as soon as possible.

Arkansans Split With Obama (Times Record) (swtimes.com) - June 29, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009 9:50 AM CDT LITTLE ROCK — Five months into his administration, President Obama has room for improvement on issues important to rural Arkansas, members of the state’s congressiona…

Washington Subway Funding Derailed By Tax Shelter?, (Tax-News.com) (tax-news.com) - June 29, 2009
A senior Republican Senator has expressed concern that a tax sheltering arrangement entered into between the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and a foreign bank contributed to a…

Independence Institute: Jon Caldara » How is Colorado's Auto ... (joncaldara.com) - July 02, 2009
Jon Caldara takes on life, liberty, love and libations. Learn more about the freedom fighters at the Independence Institute. Learn more about iVoices podcasts, Independent Thinking, and liberty orient…

GM Pension Fund: Is It Under Funded (huffingtonpost.com) - June 30, 2009
General Motors is using its huge pension fund in a way it never intended. It had planned -- and put money aside -- for a steady march of retirees over time.

Patrick Boyle: Kindergarten Cop: Let Your Kids Catch You Breaking ... (huffingtonpost.com) - June 30, 2009
Our 6-year-old is enforcing the law from her booster seat again. Who got the bright idea to build Jaycie's literacy skills by encouraging her to read road signs?

Automotive News » Auto Bailout (autofritz.com) - June 30, 2009
mko51ss on Americans Torn on Support for Auto Bailout; chrisroll92 on Supercar Shootout! - Epic 5-Car Drag Race; cl312 on Top Gear - Porsche 911 vs. Ferrari 430 Jeremy Clarkson - BBC ...

For US To Recover Its Investment, GM Stock Would Have To Hit ... (huffingtonpost.com) - June 29, 2009
Between 2000 and 2008, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union gave $23675562 to the Democratic Party and its candidates. In 2008 alone, the UAW gave $4161567 to the Democratic Party, including. Barack Ob…

Automotive News » Americans Torn on Support for Auto Bailout (autofritz.com) - June 23, 2009
Americans Torn on Support for Auto Bailout. ... Americans Torn on Support for Auto Bailout. June 23rd, 2009. Goto comments Leave a comment. GallupNews asked: Almost half (49%) of Americans oppose the…

IntelliBriefs: Globalization and the `Auto' Bailout (intellibriefs.blogspot.com) - June 18, 2009
What we are witnessing in the auto sector is not a "rescue," but continued destruction, another looting operation by the global financier parasites. The so-called auto bailout is nothing but an attemp…

DC Dicta » Blog Archive » Consumer group takes auto bailout anger ... (lawyersusaonline.com) - June 17, 2009
Consumer group takes auto bailout anger to the airwaves. A consumer group outraged over the Chrysler and General Motors bankruptcy deals it says will strip consumers of protections against defective v…

@hankito I agree, the American people need a bailout not the banks or auto industry or anybody else, NO MORE TAXES... sorry for shouting - July 03, 2009

haha! Tell GM that'd be a good use of bailout money. RT @streethistory: Cruise control is sick... We now need auto drive - July 03, 2009

Why Auto Bailout More Resisted Than Bank Rescue? Fox News? http://bit.ly/NXMQ7 - July 03, 2009

Whats this? Dick Morriss has a #1 best seller harshly critiqueing the Obama Presidency..from healthcare..to auto bailout..gov't takeover? - July 02, 2009

@BarackObama how about putting that bailout money into small business loans to kickstart this economy? Stop wasting it on the auto industry. - July 02, 2009

New blog post: A New Perspective on the Auto Industry Bailout By: Kasi http://www.ymcacona.org/blog/archives/283 - July 02, 2009

@brookspettit Good point...continue the negative stigma and the US aircraft industry are going to need a bailout like the auto industry got. - July 02, 2009

Clean Cars = Green Jobs. Government bailout loans to the auto industry can help spur a greener economy. - July 02, 2009

The 11 Worst Cars Ever Made - June 10, 2009
The car industry is suffering through bankruptcies, controversial bail-outs, and other financial miseries. But turmoil is nothing new for auto companies: since its inception 120 years ago, the automob…

U.S. military must adapt to far less financing - March 01, 2009
There has been an avalanche of news in recent weeks about more and more rescues within the U.S. domestic economy: the banks, the auto sector, homeowners and almost everybody else has required emergenc…

GM & Chrysler sue taxpayers... with taxpayer money - February 02, 2009
As California’s attorney general, Jerry Brown, pointed out on NPR: “The irony here is the auto companies want a bailout, in many ways because they weren’t building the kind of cars that were compatibl…

Cure for the Auto Industry: Trust funds, not bailouts - December 30, 2009
Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad suggests unique solutions for the auto industry - and a public bailout isn't one of them.

Bush Approves $17.4 Billion Auto Bailout - December 19, 2008
The $13.4 billion in short-term financing and $4 billion at a later date are intended to prevent the collapse of General Motors and Chrysler.

The Foreign-Owned Southern Auto Industry and the GOP - December 16, 2008
Less than two decades ago, Detroit's Big Three were the U.S. auto industry. But now there's a second auto industry: one that is nonunion, foreign-owned and Dixie-based. That's why Southern senators wo…

Countdown Obtains Memo Proving GOP's Auto Union Busting Goal - December 13, 2008
Countdown obtained a memo entitled "Action Alert - Auto Bailout," and sent Wednesday to Senate Republicans. The names The brief memo outlines internal political strategy on the bailout, including the…

BREAKING: $14 billion auto bailout bill passes House 237-170 - December 10, 2008
A $14 billion rescue package for the nation's imperiled auto industry sped to approval in the House Wednesday night, even as Republicans settled in for a tough Senate battle.

YouTube - The U.S. Auto Industry and the Ripple Effect (youtube.com) - June 23, 2009

Cash for Clunkers is unfair (mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com) - June 23, 2009
The bill is unfair to people that earn their living in the used car industry, unfair to mechanics that fix older cars, and to the entire after-market parts industry. Their taxes will fund their compet…

Cash for Clunkers Program passes Senate. On its way to a dealer near you! (mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com) - June 19, 2009
The Senate passed the Cash for Clunkers bill today and President Obama plans to sign the bill quickly. So if you were planning on buying a new car anytime soon, WAIT!

UPDATE:'Consistently Unprofitable' Saab Gets Shot At Survival (money.cnn.com) - June 17, 2009

Bid to build new GM small car heats up: Orion reportedly offers $44M (autoblog.com) - June 17, 2009
sounds like an Onion story

Congress Ready to Pass 'Cash for Clunkers,' Despite Criticism - Political News - FOXNews.com (foxnews.com) - June 16, 2009

Pelosi Withdraws Promise to TTAC to Reveal Models in Motown Bailout Buy (thetruthaboutcars.com) - June 16, 2009

Seth's Blog: What to do about Detroit (sethgodin.typepad.com) - June 14, 2009

CLEM'S CHRONICLES: MICHAEL JACKSON/OBESITY/SANFORD - The World Newser (blogs.abcnews.com) - July 01, 2009
EventLosAngeles CLEM'S CHRONICLES: MICHAEL JACKSON/OBESITY/SANFORD - The World Newser - http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworl... Wednesday from Event Jobs Los Angeles -... - Comment - Like MICHAEL JACKSON…

William Manning: California is 23.4 billion in debt. Mostly effecting students, elderly and the poor. The US will bailout banks and auto but what about kids. (twitter.com) - June 30, 2009
William Manning California is 23.4 billion in debt. Mostly effecting students, elderly and the poor. The US will bailout banks and auto but what about kids. Tuesday from Twitter - Comment - Like

The Cato Institute: WaPo: Auto bailout success "a stretch." http://bit.ly/wmYLF There aren’t many cases of this sort of lemon socialism actually paying off... (twitter.com) - June 30, 2009
The Cato Institute WaPo: Auto bailout success "a stretch." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn... There aren’t many cases of this sort of lemon socialism actually paying off... Tuesday from Twitter…

Letters to the business editor: Bailout can't fix auto industry (post-gazette.com) - June 30, 2009
NewsFeeds Letters to the business editor: Bailout can't fix auto industry - http://www.post-gazette.com/pg... Monday from post-gazette.com - News - Comment - Like

@PBCliberal The 'Auto Bailout' was about paying back the Democrat Buttboy UAW, (or is it the other way around?) by delivering them 2 Co's (twitter.com) - June 29, 2009
UAW 838 members @PBCliberal The 'Auto Bailout' was about paying back the Democrat Buttboy UAW, (or is it the other way around?) by delivering them 2 Co's - http://twitter.com/pcam... Monday from uaw…

Obama's Auto Bailout Triggers Calls for Boycott of GM Cars (digg.com) - June 27, 2009
Chosen Diggers Obama's Auto Bailout Triggers Calls for Boycott of GM Cars - http://digg.com/politic... June 27 from digg / IrishJoe / friends - Comment - Like A sizable share of Americans, recent sur…

Where Did the TARP Money go? [Veronique de Rugy] (elcampeador.com) - June 26, 2009
Critical Analysis Where Did the TARP Money go? [Veronique de Rugy] - http://elcampeador.com/2009... June 26 from El Campeador's Weblog - Comment - Like The Corner Here is a good recap table: Using da…

Where Did the TARP Money go? (corner.nationalreview.com) - June 26, 2009
Critical Analysis Where Did the TARP Money go? - http://corner.nationalreview.com/post... June 26 from The Corner - Comment - Like Here is a good recap table: Using data from the Treasury's official…

Re: Deval Patrick posts sign language (masscops.com) - June 22, 2009
B L A M E T H E U N I O N S. They keep getting asshats like this elected. You think the autobailout was for America? It was a hand out to the unions...who vote democrat...who elect asshats like these.

Re: Bankruptcy and the "trickle down" effect it... (mikeyscybercafe.yuku.com) - April 25, 2009
-term fixed income investments. Plan participants have until May 29 to redirect their stake in the fund or the money will be moved to the employees' default funds. For Related News and Information:…

RE: Political Forums - Politico.com - POLITICO.com (dyn.politico.com) - April 24, 2009
will admit to knowing and when....   Additionally, you Big DopeBama just released some memos (as a red herring to divert attention from some of his egregious mistakes on the WorldTour front, the…

RE: Automaker Bailout/Bankruptcy question..... (gunsnet.net) - April 13, 2009
Originally Posted by Kadmos I'm curious where you got the info that "The vast majority of the people said let them fail, go into bankruptcy and regroup." Maybe I shouldn't have used the word "vast"…

The other side of the auto bailouts. - June 09, 2009
Quote: : With auto sales in the doldrums, the House was considering a plan Tuesday to... capital in taxpayers money.How many more bailouts can the government give before they...

Why does CNN always support bailouts? First bailout, then auto maker bailout, now bank bailout... : reddit.com - March 13, 2009
That fact is, the same CNN never questioned Pentagon's report on WMD in Iraq. The same CNN ... never questioned Wall Street before the crisis.

How Is That Auto Bailout Working Out? - February 28, 2009
To prosperity? As you said, the gov't. loaned the car makers money, this was not a bailout ... , this was not a bailout . And as the auto makers said, this money was needed ...

Ron Paul: The $15 Billion auto bailout has been a "..gross distraction of great harm we've done over the past six months" : Economics - December 26, 2008
IMHO. The auto - bailout was nothing but a circus side-show (or sleight of hand... that things aren't even discussed in sane numbers anymore. Look at the financial bailout ...

Deal reached  $15B auto bailout - December 12, 2008
Even though I'm totally against tis bailout , this seems to be the best deal. I like ... ://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081210/ap_on_go_co/congress_ autos

Auto bailout collapses in Senate : Economics - December 11, 2008
The White House will likely be forced to tap funds from the Wall Street bailout to... bailout to lend them money. So, basically this is kind of like the Iraq invasion. Congress...

Auto bailout - December 11, 2008
Any predictions on the market reaction if the auto bailout is shot down? Think... Quote: : McConnell says no to auto bailout A big experiment is about to take ...

Denand CEO resignation before auto bailout Community - December 05, 2008
I just saw an auto CEO on CNN answering questions from the public. One questioner ask... for better quality in return for a bailout . The ceos answer was that some thought the...