Detroit Bailout

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What Would Moses Do?

Francine Hardaway | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

We should be selling cars like clothes: big family? You need a big car. Small family? You don't get to drive a Hummer for one person.

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Bailout? Detroit on His Mind

Rick Horowitz | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business

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On their last visit, the auto execs asked Congress for $25 billion in bailout loans. A nice round number. So nice and round that it sounded like it had been plucked from thin air.

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What About The Government "Bailout" Of Foreign Automakers?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Automakers, Financial Crisis, Sen. Richard Shelby, Gm, Ron Gettelfinger, Detroit, Automaker Bailout, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit Bailout, Video, Politics News

The domestic automakers are struggling under the same burden against their foreign competitors with the subsidies they receive as local businesses do against Wal-Mart.

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Why Detroit Can't Be Trusted to Handle a Bailout

Charles H. Green | Posted 01.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Cars, Auto, Bankruptcy, Trust, Bailout, Incompetence, Auto Bailout, Detroit Bailout, Business News

Both bankruptcy and bailout offer the same dismal prospect: a zombie-like return of the same poor thinking that made Detroit the East Germany of American business.

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Unions Aren't To Blame For Automakers' Woes

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business

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If the centralized, organized mouthpiece for labor is destroyed, then so is the only advocacy vehicle available to the nonunion worker.

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Out of Line: Auto Makers

Mort Gerberg | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

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

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Automakers' Massive Debts May Derail Bailout

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 01.01.2009 | Business

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DETROIT — They'll park some corporate jets, cut executive pay and serve up concessions from the United Auto Workers, but Ford Motor Co., General...

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New York Times Still Pushing $70-an-hour Autoworker Myth

Art Levine | Posted 01.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Uaw, Unionized Autoworkers, Detroit Bailout, Big Three Bailout, Business News

What will it take for the mainstream media to accurately report on the actual labor costs in Detroit while Congress is considering whether to give the Big Three a bailout?

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Dec. 1, 2008 News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

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This was the first Thanksgiving ever where the turkey pardoned the President.

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Too Much Green in Being Green

Brian Ross | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green

I would love to drive a Mini, or a Prius or a Smart Car, but I have a big family. Unless Ringling Bros. teaches me how to pile them all in and out of a four passenger car, it is not an option.

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Ford CEO: We're Not In As Much Trouble As GM And Chrysler

CNBC | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

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It's not quite guilt by association, but it's close. Ford, by virtue of being one of the Big 3 and because its finances are weakened, has been lumped ...

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Hypocrisy and Arrogance-A Lesson From the Car Industry on Why Health Care Reform Must Not Fail

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

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The American auto CEOs came hat-in-hand to Washington, DC last week, to bail out their companies, and yet they came without a plan. Instead, they wanted $25 billion.

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Congress Bails out Those Who Shower Before Work, but not Those who Shower After Work

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

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Detroit is a place where workers are unionized; Wall Street is not. And right-wing Republicans and conservative pundits have made it clear they want the union workers to suffer.

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What Detroit Needs

Aram Khayatpour | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

We all make jokes about how lazy and lobby-driven Congress is, and as sad as the truths behind those jokes are, when times are good, we can afford to have government operate like that.

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Nationalizing Chrysler

Larry Abrams | Posted 04.14.2009 | Business

The "creative destruction" argument conveniently forgets that it wasn't the "free market" that created the American Way of life, but a working class that was paid well enough to consume.

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Changing the Whole Auto Industry, Seriously?

Craig Newmark | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green

Entrenched power and mindset within Detroit leadership make it really tough for the auto industry, as a whole, to innovate.

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Emergency Medical Treatment: Reviving the Body of the Auto Industry

Stephen H. Baum | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

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Putting aside the hubris and lack of self-awareness of the automobile CEOs... what do we do with the moribund bodies that are their business models?

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Woolsey: Any Detroit Bailout Must Break US Oil Dependence

Nathan Gardels | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

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Woolsey: We need to make it easier for people to buy flex fuels and electric hybrid cars. There is already a $7,500 tax credit available.

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Smart Ways to a Bailout -- Step 1: Stop Demonizing the UAW

Art Levine | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics

You've probably heard claims about those inefficient UAW members supposedly making $70 an hour, including benefits, making unions the prime culprit in the failures of the Big 3 automakers. But it's all a big lie.

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Bailout GM, But Here's What to Demand

David Blume | Posted 12.24.2008 | Business

When Sweden mandated that most fuel stations carry alcohol at the pump, GM's Saab division quickly engineered the model 9-5 to be an advanced flexible-fuel vehicle.

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American Cars

Max and the Marginalized | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

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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

"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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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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