Comments on: The Big Three Got Owned

By: rick

rick — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:06:05 +0000

Jason, its not the cost savings…its the appearance. How do you justify giving the money to people that are so tone deaf as to fly private when asking for a handout?
Still say, this ain’t over. Obama owes Michigan and the Unions. Watch next month when the attention has died down and people are more interested in Christmas than politics. Either Obama will take care of it in Jan, or Nancy/Harry will handle it in Dec, but it will get handled when all the spotlights are turned off.

By: James the Foot Soldier

James the Foot Soldier — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:34:49 +0000

So I asked my donkey loving pals what they’re driving:

#1 (my brother, the union steward): a Toyota Prius
#2 (my pal, tax cheater extraordinaire, oh, the irony): Honda Odyssey
#3 (another pal, ran winning statewide campaigns in Illinois: Toyota Avalon

And here I am the only conservative in the bunch driving a Buick (a very fine automobile I might add).

Good work saving the planet and destroying your own constituency’s livelihood.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:20:36 +0000

How much time is lost by the GM representatives when they have to check in for a flight two hours early, or when the GM representatives are not to talk about business during the flight due to insider trading concerns?

The question is what is lost? When 12 people fly on a private jet it costs about $20,000. When 12 fly commercially to DC it costs about $12,000. Is a $8,000 savings worth the time lost?

Isn’t it really worth it in the long run?

http://nomedals.blogspot.com

By: Why Reward Failure?

Why Reward Failure? — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:29:18 +0000

The Big 3 collapse. The foreign carmakers will come in and build more factories, hire more Americans, and sustain some of the existing parts manufacturers.

And I suspect in time, a new American car manufacturer will emerge, using new technologies to build an auto powerhouse from the ground up.