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GM BANKRUPTCY PLAN CALLS FOR QUICK SALE TO GOV'T
Reuters Via Drudge Report ^ | 05/19/2009 | Chelsea Emery and Tom Hals

Posted on 05/19/2009 12:29:20 PM PDT by autumnraine

Edited on 05/19/2009 2:07:32 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

I am speechless. Are we Russia yet?

NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) - General Motors Corp's (GM.N) plan for a bankruptcy filing involves a quick sale of the company's healthy assets to a new company initially owned by the U.S. government, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. The source, who would not be named because he was not cleared to speak with the media, did not specify a purchase price. The new company is expected to honor the claims of secured lenders, possibly in full, according to the source. The remaining assets of GM would stay in bankruptcy protection to satisfy other outstanding claims. GM has about $6 billion in secured debt, including a secured revolving credit and bank debt. The government's plans include giving stakes in the new company to GM's union and bondholders, although the ownership structure of the company is still being negotiated, said the source who is familiar with the company's plans. In addition, the government would extend a credit line to the new company and forgive the bulk of the $15.4 billion in emergency loans that the U.S. has already provided to GM, the source said.

The government has given GM until June 1 to restructure its operations to lower its debt burden and employee costs.

If those talks failed, the company has said it would follow rival Chrysler LLC into bankruptcy.............


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
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To: mojitojoe

Hate to say it (not really, given what’s going on) but I have to agree with you. Too, bad. I LOVE my Tahoe and was looking forward to getting a new one with the updated body style. Oh well.


141 posted on 05/19/2009 2:23:01 PM PDT by RedCell (Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi)
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To: All

Did everyone watch Carol Browner, member of a socialist party and obama’s energy czar, this morning on Fox?

Then on CBS? http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090519/pl_bloomberg/ar0cc1w378ru

I was surprised Fox and Friends did not catch the part towards the end that there would be tax incentives for those who purchased these cars. Meaning tax hikes to anyone who does not buy them or hangs on to their old faithful.

Then a gentleman came on and said the only way the plans works in other countries is to charge higher taxes on the larger cars.

And on the ABC Good Morning America Browner refuses to answer the tax question because she knows they plan on all the taxes on everything. Three or four times Browner refused to answer the question. But she lied through her teeth that this is what everyone has asked for. People have asked for economic cars throughout hisotry. People have never asked to go poor and have government control their every move.

As obama said this is a firststep to their broader plan. He mentioned Waxman’s cap and trade and carbon tax at $3100.00 a year to each family.

obama and his two socialist party members Solis and Browner move fast. I am really angry at Michael Steele using this catastrophe to request donations to stop democrats from carbon tax legislation. WTH!!! Why do they need money to stop something so evil and sinister as massive taxes that will destroy the middle class? Under the guise of new new taxes to middle class this will be the largest ever tax in history to the middle class and higher. Just do your job, Steele. Or get out!

From Michael Steele;

President Obama and the Democrats are planning to jack up energy prices and pass the cost on to you and your family.

Let me ask you, with our economy in shambles, the unemployment rate at nearly 9% and our country about to run a record deficit of $1.8 TRILLION for 2009, can you and your family afford an additional $3,100 in higher energy taxes a year?

If Obama and his liberal Democrat cohorts get their way, you and your family will be paying an additional $260 a month in energy taxes thanks to the Democrats’ outrageous Cap & Trade legislation. That’s $260 a month that you and your family should be allowed to spend, save or invest anyway you see fit.

This tax hike may be coming sooner than you think.

Ultraliberal Democrat Congressmen Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, who chair the Energy committees moving the Cap and Trade bill, want it passed by the U.S. House before Memorial Day. That leaves Republicans precious little time to stop the Democrats’ energy tax plan that could cost American businesses and families up to $2 TRILLION and cause massive job losses.


142 posted on 05/19/2009 2:23:34 PM PDT by OafOfOffice (Constitution is not neutral.It was designed to take the government off the backs of people-Douglas)
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To: All; Constitutionalist Conservative

Actually, that would be COMMUNISM, not socialism. Socialism would be the means of production actually owned by the workers themselves. When the means of production are owned by a Centralized Government Power (The FEDS), then it would technically be communism.

[And, don’t let the liberals try to fool you with the “but WE the people” own the government — as we all know WE THE PEOPLE haven’t been in control of the government (esp. the FEDS), in a LONG, LONG, time...]

Seriously, Obama should just get it over with now... No use trying to hide his agenda anymore really — like we can’t see it? Anyone who ever studied history knows where this is going... History is doomed to repeat if people don’t learn from it, and the good Lord knows that anyone who came to the age of reason after say the mid-80s - usually don’t have a CLUE as to what Communism REALLY is, or what it really does to people, and to a country as a whole...


143 posted on 05/19/2009 2:25:03 PM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

GM stock closed with a 7.6% gain today...
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144 posted on 05/19/2009 2:25:30 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder)
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To: RexBeach

145 posted on 05/19/2009 2:25:45 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (When you put Democrats in charge, stupid things happen)
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To: griswold3

Let them come MAKE me.


146 posted on 05/19/2009 2:27:03 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder)
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To: TaxMe

Always had a fondness for the Nissan Titan. Wonder if I could get a shell on the back.


147 posted on 05/19/2009 2:30:54 PM PDT by Crazieman (Feb 7, 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966675/posts?page=28#28)
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To: LibertyRocks
#143

B-I-N-G-O

148 posted on 05/19/2009 2:31:37 PM PDT by 444Flyer ("...But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor."-Esther 3:2b)
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To: TaxMe

I have 3 GM’s in my driveway right now, Silverado 2500, Suburban and a Denali. If the feds hand over GM to the unions, I will never own another


149 posted on 05/19/2009 2:38:54 PM PDT by coon2000
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To: autumnraine

“the government would extend a credit line to the new company and forgive the bulk of the $15.4 billion in emergency loans that the U.S. has already provided to GM, the source said.”

Where’s the uproar from congress ?


150 posted on 05/19/2009 2:40:40 PM PDT by culpeper ( When traitors are called heroes, dark times have fallen - Roland Deschain)
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To: autumnraine

Barack Obama told us, the public, that Chrysler and GM would pay back the loans to protect the taxpayer. But now neither company has to pay it back and not one single politician in Washington has the GUTS to stand in front of a microphone and tell the American people that they’ve just been ripped off.

I am seriously considering not paying my taxes next year.


151 posted on 05/19/2009 2:47:22 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: autumnraine

Next, the federal government will acquire Starbucks and unionize all its employees.

Elections have consequences. The GOP had a pathetic candidate on the top of the ticket and we now have a marxist community organizer killing contract law, individual liberty, and free market capitalism.


152 posted on 05/19/2009 2:52:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: autumnraine

Bankruptsy fraud by the numbers.


153 posted on 05/19/2009 2:53:51 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (We have nothing to fear but Obama himself.)
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To: autumnraine; afnamvet; Axenolith; bootless; CounterCounterCulture; Drango; HKMk23; ...

From this day foreward, anyone who buys a GM car is an American Traitor!


154 posted on 05/19/2009 2:57:10 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: epluribus_2
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You don't know how to read the poop that this gang puts out. - This is all about pulling the UAW's fat out of the fire.

155 posted on 05/19/2009 3:00:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: All

Tell GM how you feel about this sellout:
1-800-458-8006

Mash the 0 key until you get a person.

Be polite. Be concise. Get your point across.


156 posted on 05/19/2009 3:00:53 PM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (If Benito Mussolini was IL DUCE, Barack Obama is ILL DOUCHE!)
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To: John W

The UAW is at Ford too. No UAW car in our household EVER again.


157 posted on 05/19/2009 3:05:58 PM PDT by battletank
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To: AIM-54

Obama didnt bankrupt Chrysler and GM, he just given the unions whats left. Maybe they’ll be enough union workers to buy these auto’s. My last car was a Toyota and my next truck will be a Toyota. Them Toyota trucks are made right here in Sunny San Antonio Texas, and my brother=in=law works there. Thanks Toyota for providing our family a job and a great auto. Goodbye GM/Chrysler/Fiat and the rest of them union folks!


158 posted on 05/19/2009 3:26:19 PM PDT by 57Chevy (Freedom is not Free!)
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To: autumnraine

Laughs and laughs and laughs and laughs and laughs!

I thought the bailout was so that GM could AVOID bankruptcy.

If it won’t work for GM, why is it assumed it will work in every other sector?


159 posted on 05/19/2009 3:30:52 PM PDT by Tzimisce (http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
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To: expatpat
This country has just jumped on the Crazy Train. Where and when does it stop?

It won't stop until we derail it. Time to get started.

160 posted on 05/19/2009 3:33:25 PM PDT by meyer (Obama is to the USA as Mugabe is to Zimbabwe.)
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