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Max and the Marginalized | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

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Max and the Marginalized

We wanted to make a song describing the inseparability of our inflated notion of American glory associated with our automotive industry in the very style of the 70's power-pop songs that helped create the notion itself.

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Senator Durbin Rips Big Three Automakers

AP | Posted 12.22.2008 | Chicago

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Sen. Dick Durbin is ripping into auto industry leaders, calling them out of touch with ordinary people. But he indicated there's still a chance for th...

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What to Do With Detroit?

The Real News | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Justin Fox, Jim Stanford, Chrysler, Bailout, Gm, United Auto Workers, United States, Ford, Public Financing, Auto Industry, Unions, Canada, The Real News, Big Three Automakers, Detroit Bailout, Detroit Three, Automakers, Caw, Detroit Automakers, Cars, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit, Politics News
The Real News

"Governments around the world have always been proactive in growing and nurturing industries like the auto industry. In North America for the last couple of decades, we haven't done that."

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A Kid from Car Country

James Moore | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

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James Moore

Once this grim place was the most alluring in America. The engine of the world was built here in Michigan. And it is hard to believe we are simply going to let it run out of gas.

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A Universal Bailout

Ben Yarrow | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Big Three Automakers, Bailout, Health Care, Barack Obama, Economy, Automaker Bailout, Auto Industry, Politics News
Ben Yarrow

It's true that the Big Three have earned their hard-fought demise, after years of lobbying against CAFE standards and resisting reform. That's why if we bail out the autos, they should bail us out, too.

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Dear NASCAR: Get a Clue!

Patricia Martin | Posted 12.22.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Auto Industry, Nascar, Energy, Brian France, Big Three Automakers, Carbon Emissions, Jimmie Johnson, Energy Crisis, Global Warming, Chicago News
Patricia Martin

It's time for NASCAR to pull a U-turn. Leadership needs to get on board the green express and point NASCAR in the direction of sustainable, renewable auto sports.

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How to Create a Successful Auto Manufacturer Bailout Plan

Grant Cardone | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Gm, Automaker Bailout, Chysler, The Big 3, Detroit, Business News
Grant Cardone

I was recently asked to participate on a forum with the LA Business Journal whereby six CEO's weigh in with their opinions of the Government Bail Out of the Automotive Companies.

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Do It For Me, Matchbox Man

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

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Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

From the fireworks in DC this week, you might think the auto crisis is out of your hands, but we're all complicit: government, CEOs, autoworkers, the public.

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The Neo-Cons Are Not Gone, Nor Forgotten

Brian Ross | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

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Brian Ross

Much of the economic crisis is also being engineered by our sweet neo-cons to create an untenable situation for the Dems coming into power.

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The Hits Just Keep Coming

Lance Simmens | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Congress, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, 2008 Election, Cars, Detroit Automakers, 2000 Election, Detroit Bailout Reaction, George W. Bush, Gm, Automaker Bailout, Chysler, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Detroit, Politics News
Lance Simmens

We have been rudderless for some time, and it shows. The call to public service is now more urgent than at any time in our nation's history.

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Will We Let Detroit Go and the Recession Deepen Out of Disgust Over Financial Bailout?

David Paul | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, U.S. Economy, Creative Destruction, Wall Street Bailout, Joseph Schumpeter, Bailout, Detroit Three, Banks, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Big Three Automakers, Etroit, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Automakers, Cars, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Business News
David Paul

We have watched one bailout unfold, and we have not been impressed. We heeded the Wise Men, and now we feel violated. But how do we now hold failing auto companies to a higher standard?

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Big Three CEOs And Their Private Jets (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Private Jets, Chrysler, Slideshow, Corporate Jets, Gm, Alan Mulally, Robert Nardelli, Automobile Industry, Rick Wagoner, Ford, Big Three, Cars, Big Three Automakers, Automobile Industry Bailout, Business News

The CEOs of the nation's biggest three automakers flew to Washington DC yesterday to make their case before congress that the auto industry is despera...

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Romney's Idiotic Plan for Detroit

Toby Barlow | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Bailout, Economy, Mitt Romney, Big Three, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit Bailout, Business News
Toby Barlow

Let's not be coy about the real agenda here. Republicans like Mitt Romney see this as an opportunity to wage war against the UAW.

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Bail Out Detroit -- Right Now!

Matthew DeBord | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Chrysler, General Motors, Bailout, Sustainable Mobility, Ford, Detroit, Uaw, Automaker Bailout, Greening the Economy, Big Three Automakers, The Big Three, Gm, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, Cars, Sustainable Energy, Automakers, Detroit Automakers, Green Cars, Sustainable Cars, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout, Green News
Matthew DeBord

We could let Detroit fail and throw money at the many future-car startups that are currently out there, but that won't provide enough product to market to deliver the improvements we require.

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CEOs Need to Run for Sheriff Just Once

Don McNay | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, CEO Pay, Big Three Automakers, CEO Salaries, Chysler, Ford, Republican Governors Association, Aig, General Motors, Ernie Fletcher, Ceos, Kentucky, Financial Crisis, CEO Compensation, Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn, Sheriff, Automakers, Bailout, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Auto Industry, Business News
Don McNay

The financial system was supposedly broke. America wants the CEOs begging for cash to act like broke people.

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Planes, Pains And Automobiles

Dwayne Raymond | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Politics, Bankruptcy, America, Dignity, Mitt Romney, Financial Crisis, Bailout Plan, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, Cars, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Detroit, Business News
Dwayne Raymond

These overpaid, egomaniacal "players" should heed Romney's counsel and start playing sensibly, like honorable men. And their first ante in this new game should be their own prompt resignation.

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Congress Scraps a Good Car with Bad Steering

Dan Treul | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Auto Bailout, Congress, Uaw, Chrysler, Bailout, Economic Crisis, Economy, American Auto Industry, Big Three, Bachus, Gm, Auto Industry Bailout, Ford, American Automakers, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Detroit Three, Automakers, Detroit Automakers, Cars, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit, Business News
Dan Treul

No one - this Michigan resident included - is out to defend recent management of Ford, GM and Chrysler as "efficient." It doesn't take an industry analyst to determine the status quo broken.

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The Case for Bailing out the Big Three

Brian Ross | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

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Brian Ross

Apparently there is one thing that liberal and neo-con think-tanks can agree upon: Let Ford, General Motors, and Chrylser fail.

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Obama Team Primed for a "Green Stimulus" to the Economy

Nathan Gardels | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Obama Energy Policy, Big Three Automakers, Obama Green, Obama Energy Plan, Big Three, The Big 3, Green Stimulus, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit Bailout, Politics News
Nathan Gardels

I spoke with Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a top economic adviser on Obama's transition team who headed Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, about the need for a "green stimulus."

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Chinese Want To Buy the Big 3 Automakers

Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Cars, Mitt Romney, Richard Selby, Gm, Ford, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, The Big 3, China Detroit, China Products, Automakers, Detroit Automakers, Bailout, Detroit, China Automakers, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit Bailout, China, China Big 3, Business News
Jane Hamsher

All the Shock Doctrine fanatics cheering to drive the the Big 3 into bankruptcy "restructuring," like Mitt Romney, might want to think about the implications of this.

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Should the Government Bail Out the Big Three U.S. Automakers? HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In

Huffington Post | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

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Huffington Post

Huffington Post contributors weigh in on whether Congress should bail out the Big Three Detroit automakers. Keep checking back as the debate continues.

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Mitt Romney's Ye-Olde-Times Plan For Detroit

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

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Jeffrey Feldman

As a foray into the troubled waters of the biggest industry crisis of our time, Romney's plan epitomizes how Republicans think about the economy: by pretending we live in a Dickensian version of the Eisenhower era.

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Big Media: Screw the Auto Workers

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Uaw, Big Three Automakers, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Economy, Working Life, Wages, Economic Crisis, Cars, Ford, Automakers, Labor, Bailout, General Motors, Alan Reuther, Ron Gettelfinger, Detroit, Unions, Auto Industry, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

Memo to the media: you want to see the auto industry go down? Fine. But, at least try to give the facts about the cuts, concessions and job losses that workers have taken on in a bid to save their livelihoods.

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Free Fall

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Economic Downturn, Big Three Automakers, Bailout, Economy, Paulson, Economic Crisis, Detroit, Financial Crisis, Republican Obstruction, Obama, Auto Industry, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

The US has joined Germany and Japan in what is becoming a global recession. The era of big government is over is over. In the crisis, we are, as Richard Nixon once said, "all Keynesians now."

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Bridge Loan to Nowhere or Bridge Loan to the 21st Century?

Randi Rhodes | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Economy, Politics, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Bailout, Randi Rhodes, Bridge to Nowhere, Economy, Auto Workers, Bush Administration Economy, Lame Duck Sessions, Socialism, Auto Industry Bailout, Jack Quinn, Business, Politics News
Randi Rhodes

Should Congress find the votes to take back at least $25 billion and loan it to the auto industry, they ought to attach it to a long list of demands that need to be set down in writing.

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