Yeah, that’s it Rhonda. The Big Three and it’s marriage with the UAW can’t remain competitive in the global marketplace, it its the Republicans in Congress who are to blame.

Politicize everything, and remain clueless about everything.

The whole point is that Toyota doesn’t need financial help because it is willing to design the cars and trucks that people want and can afford. Detroit has spent decades trying to convince us to want whatever they design and go into hock for the rest of our lives for it (think Edsel), and when Toyota and the other importers actually listen to their customers and respond, Detroit can’t figure out what it did wrong!

He always has exactly the wrong positions on things that I write to him about. But, I knew he was an “I D ten t” (write this out and substitute the number for “ten”) when I wrote to him. His responses always prove that fact.

Hum, that’s strange, he always responds personally to me in the manner I request.
Maybe he sent the form letter just to pi$$ you off, I imagine he has a dossier on you and is dedicated to making your life miserable.

And somebody call the whaaaaaamulance for Rhonda.

The vote was 52 to 35. IF his 8 dems would have voted for it…they would have had it 60 to 35

American industry is already practically dead. Certainly the auto makers are.

The whole thing is extortion– give us billions or we’ll fail and that will cost you even more billions.

Perhaps they ought to be allowed to go into bankruptcy or fold. If the operation of the free market is really so important, let the losers fall and the innovative winners arise. The market will, eventually, right itself.

And let’s not hear any more of this “Private enterprise ALWAYS does it better.” Look at the big three– nothing could be less true.

Besides, it wastes a stamp.” — CapnAmerica

——–

No kidding! If you email instead (saving the cost of the stamp) you still get a canned off-subject response that you know is paid for with your tax monies.

I specifically ask NOT to receive a response if it isn’t an answer to a direct question. I’ve explained that the form letters are a waste of my money and please don’t send me one.

As proof my letter wasn’t even read, the form letter is received.

Tiahrt is a joke — a really really bad joke that isn’t funny.

Writing to Tiahrt is like writing to Satan, it only encourages him to keep doing evil.

Besides, it wastes a stamp.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/98769-our-coming-depression

Now I don’t know if the above site is valid. I have read studies which indicate that various administrations have been cooking the books for decades, to make themselves look better. Increment by increment, it adds up. I posted a citation yesterday, which of course no one is going to read, because then you couldn’t continue to blowviate your b.s.
* * * * *
That is an interesting site, beber. I am pretty sure that those who have been unemployed for a while and give up looking for a job are not counted as jobless under current definitions.

The similarities between recent times and the 20’s/30’s the blogger points out are interesting. And as I pointed out yesterday when FDR took over in 1932 the unemployment rate was 25% which would mean that at the time one in four men were not employed. Which is a pretty staggering figure and it is scary to think that we are drawing close to that number now.

Personally, I don’t like the idea of taxpayers bailing out anybody – but it seems the Bush Administration does not care how many billions it spends on their buddies – does it?
_________________________________________________

Smacks of socialism, doesn’t it.

Republicans are against it until they’re for it.

Time to change or get into another business.

—

Why wasn’t the same said about AIG, Bear Stearns, Citigroup and other Wall Street companies?

In fact, Citigroup didn’t even need to come to Washington to get their taxpayer-funded bailout –
George W. Bush gave it to them over the phone over one single weekend!

If the taxpayers bail out the Wall Street people, then we should bail out the automakers because that industry really does touch more Main Street people in terms of real jobs.

Personally, I don’t like the idea of taxpayers bailing out anybody – but it seems the Bush Administration does not care how many billions it spends on their buddies – does it?