Harry Reid, rub my belly......
Posted on 11/17/2008 8:43:24 AM PST by jessduntno
"For the auto industry to completely collapse would be a disaster in this kind of environment, not just for individual families but the repercussions across the economy would be dire. So it's my belief that we need to provide assistance to the auto industry. But I think that it can't be a blank check."
He said he favored an assistance package that would require the industry to remake itself so that it's in a "sustainable" position for the future. "So that we are creating a bridge loan to somewhere as opposed to a bridge loan to nowhere," he said." - B. Hussein Obama
A "bridge loan to nowhere?" Glib SOB is still campaigning! Bridge to nowhere? What a fool.
"So it's my belief that we need to provide assistance to the auto industry."
Assistance is already there, my dimwitted friend. It's called Chapter 11. Forget about giving all your UAW buddies their payback. If we don't raise holy hell about this, we might as well turn out the lights and go home. The Republican party won't be over, it'll be dead.
And all the "conservatives" who prattle on about this being a "security issue" can go to a warm place, too. What a lame argument. Let them dissolve their monopolies and fight it out in the trenches like the rest of us.
Let them go bankrupt, reorganize.......including union contracts and see how they do. Probably won’t happen because the Democrats owe the unions.
“So that we are creating a bridge loan to somewhere as opposed to a bridge loan to nowhere,” he said.” - B. Hussein Obama “
Is that like a “Bridge to the 21st Century”. He’s even starting to talk like a Clinton let alone all the retreads in his administration.
And once again the Republicans will roll over and play dead. Yawn.
Speaking of political metaphors this is a good opportunity for the republicans to draw a line in front the bridge to somewhere.
For the last eight years the media has portrayed Bush as a cross between Hitler and Bonzo, although with all his mistakes he has been a better President than any of the Democrats in the past half-century. For the next 8 years the media will try to make Obama into a cross between FDR and Abraham Lincoln, although he’ll probably screw things up more than Carter (but everything will be Bush’s fault).
When was the inauguration?
two points - Big Auto is going to colllapse unless they drastically change ttheir way of doing business regardless of whether they get federal moolah or not.
second - we don’t have the money to loan them - we have to borrow it ourselves, and our children are going to have to pay it back - with interest.
oh! yeah! I almost forgot- if we bail out citibank, GM, Ford, Chrysler, Prudential,Countrywide, etc... where do we draw the line? Where is the cutoff between when someone gets taxpayer bailouts, or goes under? Do we bail out GM but not Sears? do we bail out Burger King but not Harry’s Place? where does this insanity stop???
You watch, with the help of RINO’S, the auto industry will get their bailout. They will hang it on Bush while Obama takes credit for ‘saving’ the industry.
Harry Reid, rub my belly......
this “bridge into the 21st century” is made up of the carcasses of our children, their hopes and dreams priced out of reach by OUR foolhardiness, their statuses little more them mere slaves to the government’s thunderous appetites.
I am so sick of this guy already.
On January 29, 2009 he will enter the gen-pop at Attica. Vladimir Putin, head of the Kremlin Kings will be waiting, licking his chops over the new girl. Within six months they bad guys will be trading him for a pack of straights.
He’ll vote “present.”
Why should the Republicans/Conservatives, who are now basically confined to the South, approve Gov’t money to help states that kicked conservatives out (MI, NY, OH, IL) and especially support Obama’s friends in the Unions?
Aren’t the Republicans constituents really the workers at Toyota, Honda, BMW in the states of AL, TX, GA, SC, etc...?
Why are people around here thinking Obama is already President? For those here that are unaware the President takes over on 20 January 2009. I am sorta surprised that folks around here don’t know this. Some FREEPERS were saying that Obama’s Presidency has lost stock market numbers. I wonder how somebody so smart can be be so stupid. FREEPERS are of greater intelligences but they don’t know that it is still Bush’s stock market? Sad!!!!
He’s even starting to talk like a Clinton let alone all the retreads in his administration.
That is really not a bad thing. They solved our 1991-1993 recession and made our economy thrive. We need to make positives out of this incredible negative. If Obama is going to be President, he might as well use the experts who can solve recessions.
Too late. The GOP got screwed the moment it overwhelmingly approved the bank bailout (which was so incredibly necessary for the very survival of the universe that...our benevolent leaders decided the money can be spent in some other arbitrary way - since they have it now, and there is no rush). Ordering the banks to “stop hoarding” was a nice touch too. The three+ stooges are in charge of America’s monetary and financial regulatory policies.
Now, for the auto bailout, we are going from trillions in waste back down to mere billions. Universal Healthcare is a shoe-in too, for the same reason. We have nitwits complaining about “deflation” (using new oh-so-convenient definitions of the phenomenon), and that is going to help provide cover for “firing up the printing presses”. Deficits in the mere billions are passe - trillion dollar deficits have been normalized.
“Pragmatism” has left us with no leg to stand on.
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