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GM Would Love Taxpayers To Think They’re Private And Independent
You’re going to hear and see a lot in the mainstream media over the next few days about how wonderful the TARP program has been, how it saved so many…
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MI-Connection mentioned in the Jacksonville, NC paper
And on the editorial page no less. And no, it’s not a positive op-ed: The North Carolina towns of Davidson and Mooresville have unwittingly made a foolproof case as to…
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More losses for MI-Connection
Not a surprise, of course. But proving yet again that government does not belong in the business of operating cable TV/broadband systems. And you got to love the operating losses…
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It’s Bonus Time at Taxpayer-Owned GM!
As you’re working your behind off today in order to pay your mortgage, buy groceries, and support your family, think of what’s taking place at GM — the once mighty…
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GM resumes political giving
If you’re a once-private company now owned primarily by the government, whom do you support with your newly restored campaign of political donations? Do you have to ask?
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Government expands its subprime business, prepares for IPO
It’s deja vu all over again in Detroit. From the Financial Times: General Motors has agreed to buy AmeriCredit, a Texas-based vehicle finance company, for $3.5bn in cash as a…
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GMAC: Sweet Merciful Crap
Uncle Sucker — ie, you and me — is lobbing another $3.8b. on the bonfire that is Charlotte’s very own GMAC. With that, the U.S. government is now the majority…
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Repeating the Amtrak blunder
Ron Paul contends that the federal takeover of GM should remind us of the promises made by the politicians back in 1970 when the feds got into the passenger rail…
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Support Government Motors!
With perhaps a spiffy new T-shirt. It is amusing to me that the Left is surprised — even a little outraged, natch — that there is blowback against the government…
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You might be a progressive if…
…the only problem you see with the GM bankruptcy deal is that the government will only own 72.5 percent of the company when it’s all said and done.
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How would government run Wal-Mart?
Very poorly, according to Robert J. Samuelson.