The Big 3

Economic Stimulus: Biodiesels as Giveaways Could Build Community, Consumer Awareness

Josh Tickell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Big 3, Big Three Automakers, Biofuels, Future of Fuel, Big Three, Environment, Biodiesel Fuel, Future Fuel, The Big 3, Green Living, Green Energy, Biodiesel, Home News

How many biodiesels could we put on the road with the $15-30 billion the Big 3 Auto Monsters are going to receive? Let's tell Congress how many!

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Nationalizing Chrysler

Larry Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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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Unions Aren't To Blame For Automakers' Woes

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Automotive Industry, Air America Radio, Mike Papantonio, Union, Recession, Detriot, Uaw, Organized Labor, Bailout, Ring of Fire, Union Busting, Economy, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Automakers, Walmart Unions, Economic Policy Institute, Gm, Automaker Bailout, Richard Shelby, The Big 3, Epi, Big Three Automakers, Jim Demint, Detroit Three, Ford, Afl-Cio, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Chysler, Auto Industry, Bailout Outrage, Business News

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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Save the Jeep; Save the Nation

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citigroup, Washington Mutual, Gm, Economy, United Auto Workers, Sen. Harry Reed, Ford, Mitt Romney, Fannie Mae, Credit Default Swaps, Congress, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Big Three, Aig, Chrysler, Freddie Mac, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, New York Museum of Modern Art, Jeep, Uaw, World War II, Capitol, Senate Majority Leader, Willys-Overland, Detroit Bailout, Automakers, Bailout, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit, Big Three Automakers, Detroit Three, Detroit Automakers, Cars, Chysler, Auto Industry, Bailout Outrage, Business News

Congress cannot let the Jeep die in bankruptcy. Congress must not fail the U.S. auto industry. Doing so would be abandoning the core of the American economy -- manufacturing.

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2008: What Will We Tell The Children?

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Change We Can Believe In, 2008, 2008 New Year, Economic Crisis, Wall St. Crisis, The Big 3, 2008 Election, Wall St. Bailout, Barack Obama, Recession, Great Depression, Yes on Prop 8, Yes We Can, On the Ground 2008, Automakers Bailout, Same-Sex Marriage, California Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Financial Crisis, Grandparenting, Detroit Bailout, Gay Marriage, Balanced Life, Relationships, Video, Healthy Living News

Pull up a chair and settle in while I spin a yarn about 2008. The story actually begins 20 years into the future (visualize a clock advancing rapidly...

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Procrastination Doesn't Fix It

Joan Blades | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uaw, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Detroit Three, Automakers, Jobs, Bailout, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Labor Unions, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Unemployment, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Unions, Detroit, Business News

Why not convert one third of the automakers' industrial capacity to building state-of-the-art wind generation? We need to be strategic in solving our economic and energy woes.

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White House Still "Gathering Information" While Detroit Suppliers go Bankrupt

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toyota Camry, Chapter 11, White House, Thailand, Troubled Assets Relief Program, Flint, Chrysler, Rick Wagoner, United Auto Workers, Cars, Detroit News, Arizona, Facebook, Ford, Detroit Newspapers, Key Plastics, Los Angeles Auto Show, Mark Fields, Southern California, Larry King, Daewoo Lacetti, General Motors, Japanese Cars, Ford Flex, President Bush, Carl Levin, President-Elect Barack Obama, China Brilliance, Uaw, Bankruptcy, Gm, Minivan, Alan Mulally, Special Devices, Detroit Three, Gran Torino, Detroit Free Press, Washington DC, Sandy Levin, Clint Eastwood, Chevrolet Volt, Chevrolet Cruze, Bill Ford, TARP and Auto Bailout, Henry Ford, Detroit Three Loans, South Korea, European Cars, Henry Paulson, Sabic, Detroit Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Detroit, Big Three Automakers, Detroit Automakers, Unions, Auto Industry, Automakers, Jobs, Bailout, Unemployment, The Big 3, Labor Unions, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit Auto Show, Business News

Even Bush doesn't want to go down in history as the man who oversaw the destruction of GM, Ford and Chrysler (I hope), and I'd guess Obama wishes he could install his own new team now and fire Paulson.

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Bailout or Not, Nothing Will Be the Same for Drivers or Detroit

Trevor Traina | Posted 05.25.2011

Vehicle manufacturers must re-engage their owners and offer them innovative services. What if GM included ads in exchange for lower pricing? What if they developed an in-dash system with Google or Apple?

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Is the GOP Risking the Economy to Win the PR War Against Unions?

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Republican Senators, Gop, Employee Free Choice Act, Corker, Auto Industry Bailout, Uaw, Mitch Albom, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Jobs, Bailout, Labor Unions, Cars, Unemployment, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Unions, Auto Industry, Detroit, Politics News

With three million jobs at stake, potentially costing taxpayers $150 billion, unions remain the primary targets of the GOP blame game for the troubled auto industry and the failed bailout deal.

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Analysts: GM Bankruptcy Would Be Catastrophic For Economy

Reuters | Lucia Mutikani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Bailout, The Big 3, General Motors, Gm, GM Bankruptcy, Detroit, Business News

A General Motors bankruptcy would push the U.S. economy deeper into recession and cause a labor market catastrophe, highlighting why the government ha...

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Senate to Middle Class: Drop Dead

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Auto Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Uaw, Big Three Automakers, Bailout, Michael Moore, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, Middle Class, Detroit, Big Three, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Politics News

The Senate decided that it is more important to break a union, more important to throw middle class wage earners into the ranks of the working poor than to prevent the total collapse of industrial America.

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Triage for the Big Three Automakers

Philip G. Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, The Big 3, Big Three Automakers, US Auto Industry, Detroit, Business News

Forget about trying to save all three manufacturers. By doing so with the limited funds available, we'll help none of them. To rebuild our auto industry, we need to create a sound foundation.

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The Auto Bailout and Post-Partisanship?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican Administration, Uaw, Automaker Bailout, Government Bailout, United Auto Workers, Economy, Ford, Congress, Obama, Bush, Chrysler, Mark Zandi, General Motors, Ron Gettelfinger, Bob Corker, Auto Industry Bailout, Auto Industry, Senate, Detroit Bailout, Automakers, Bailout, Gm, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit, Big Three Automakers, Detroit Three, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Chysler, Politics News

This is a mess. Everybody in the auto industry is staring into the abyss - the automakers, the unions, the suppliers, the dealers - not to mention the government and the taxpayers.

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Scrooge As Spiritual Teacher: Wake Up Or Miss Your Life

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge, Happiness, Transformation, Big 3 Bailout, Big 3 Private Jets, The Big 3, Sarah Palin Makeover, Corporate Greed, Lee Scott CEO of Wal-Mart, Sarah Palin, Video, Healthy Living News

I think Ebenezer Scrooge has gotten a bad rap long enough. This poor guy has endured nearly 200 years of negative press and it's about time we took a...

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Automotive Chiefs Announce Further Restructuring, Closing Ohio

Aemilia Scott | Posted 05.25.2011

Over the last few years, sustaining Ohio has become less profitable for automakers. When the state began to run at a loss, the Big Three began selling off pieces to Germany and Japan.

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General Motor's VP Bob Lutz's Green Pose

James Hoggan | Posted 05.25.2011

I think the U.S. legislators contemplating this auto industry bailout package should demand Bob Lutz's resignation before dribbling a single dollar into GM's leaky pockets.

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Why the World Needs Green Motors, not General Motors...

Gavin D. J. Harper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cars, Detroit Automakers, Automakers, Green Motoring, Auto Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Car, United Auto Workers, Gm, The Big 3, Green Energy, Vehicle, Auto Industry, Ford Motor Co, Green News

Whilst the CEOs of these great companies fight to keep them alive in the 21st century, how relevant is it to have three competing with each other to produce last century's technology?

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Bailout? Detroit on His Mind

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Industry, Big Three Automakers, Rick Wagon, Alan Mulally, Richard Wagoner, Federal Reserve, Congress, Ford Motor Co, Chrysler, General Motors, Bailout, Robert Nardelli, Big Auto Makers, Car Makers, Financial Crisis, Tarp, Detroit, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Detroit Automakers, Cars, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Business News

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 Would Moses Do?

Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011

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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Obama Should Use General Motors to Build the Green Collar Economy

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Bailout, Green Collar Jobs, Green Collar Economy, Van Jones, General Motors, Economy, Politics, Green, 2008 Recession, The Big 3, Recession, Barack Obama, Bailout, Green Energy, Gm, Green News

All signals point to Obama investing heavily in green collar jobs. The labor force and manufacturing capacity of GM provides a perfect springboard for a national green jobs initiative.

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The Automobile Bailout Solution: Unique and Simple

John R. Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Automakers, Congress, Automaker Bailout, Big 3, Big Three Automakers, Big 3 Bailout, Chrysler, Big Three, Gm, The Big 3, Auto Industry Bailout, Ford, Auto Industry, Business News

It makes more sense for Congress to tell ExxonMobil, ARCO, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and their fellow travelers that they should lend the automobile industry $25 billion

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Out of Line: Auto Makers

Mort Gerberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Dec. 1, 2008 News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Cabinet, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, George W. Bush, Automakers, Obama Administration, Bailout, Paul Brown Obama, Michelle Bachmann, Aig, Gm, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit, Bill Clinton, Big Three Automakers, Obama Inauguration, Detroit Three, Ford, Susan Rice US Ambassador to the Un, Chris Matthews, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Political Humor, Obama First 100 Days, Chysler, Hillary Clinton, Auto Industry Bailout, Presidential Thanksgiving Pardon, News Humor, Auto Industry, 100 Days, Politics News

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

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What Detroit Needs

Aram Khayatpour | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cars, Barack Obama, Health, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, Detroit Automakers, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Auto Industry, Detroit, Politics News

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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