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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

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

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Congress, Phil Gramm, Hank Paulson, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Senate Banking Committee, Economy, Honda, U.S. Treasury, Cars, Mercedes-Benz, Federal Reserve, $700 Billion Bailout, Vikram S. Pandit, Ford, Charles O. Prince III, Automakers, Nissan, Unemployment, Bailout, Default, George Will, Hyundai, Sen. Jon Kyl, Detroit, Big Three, Financial Crisis, Washington Post, President Bush, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Toyota, Sen. Richard Shelby, Detroit Three, Gm, The Big 3, Chysler, Detroit Automakers, Robert Rubin, Wall Street, Martin Feldstein, Ben Bernanke, Wachovia, Auto Industry, Bankrupt, Citigroup, Business News

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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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

Read More: Max and the Marginalized, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Music, Bailout, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Gm, Automaker Bailout, Chysler, The Big 3, Auto Industry, Detroit, Politics News

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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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

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

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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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

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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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 Hits Just Keep Coming

Lance Simmens | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

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

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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Automaker Bailout -- Heads They Win, Tails We Lose

Pam Atherton | Posted 12.21.2008 | Home

Frankly, I'm tired of all these big businesses putting their hands out and trying to scare us into giving them money by threatening us with an economic disaster.

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Bail Out Detroit -- Right Now!

Matthew DeBord | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green

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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Detroit's Day of Reckoning (with Thanks to David Halberstam)

Steve Parker | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Chapter 11, Peter Morici, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Rick Wagoner, David Halberstam, Cars, Chris Dodd, Ford, Robert Lutz, Nissan, Robert Nardelli, US Senate, Detroit, Richard Shelby, President Bush, Masters of the Universe, Northwest Airlines, Uaw, Bankruptcy, Gm, Alan Mulally, Pebble Beach, Detroit Three, Washington DC, Democrats, Barack Obama, Tokyo Motor Show, Ron Gettelfinger, Code Pink, Harry Reid, Republicans, Dearborn, Business News

This week's bailout hearing signaled what looks like the ultimate day of reckoning for this country's once-great and world-dominating car making industry. All Americans are tired of the excuses.

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The Tear-Down (Detroit Edition)

Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Bailout, Wage Gap, Congress, Rust Belt, Economic Stimulus Package, Economy, Detroit Three, United Auto Workers, Automakers, Bailout, Automaker Bailout, Financial Crisis, Detroit Reaction, Auto Industry, Business News

The nation is said to be in need to some bottom-up economic stimulus. And now we're going to tear down what remains of the country's manufacturing core?

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Planes, Pains And Automobiles

Dwayne Raymond | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

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

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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

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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Chinese Want To Buy the Big 3 Automakers

Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

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 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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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

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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