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An informative video...
GM: The new Amtrack
Thomas Woods is excellent.
"We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed, over-regulated, and overrun by bureaucrats. The founders would be ashamed of us for what we are putting up with."
-Ron Paul
Wonder
Wonder if the judge would run for office? Might make a good VP for someone.
Tom is awesome. Hope to have his book Meltdown in my hands soon.
I just started his book...
It's a good one. This guy "gets it."
"We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed, over-regulated, and overrun by bureaucrats. The founders would be ashamed of us for what we are putting up with."
-Ron Paul
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Yes, excellent!
God, I love Napolitano!!!
So, heads, government wins; tails, Americans lose.
Reality in 2009 "America".
Great
That was great! We need more of this..
Loved it
Good group.
They are just setting up and testing out the Judge
for his very own show yay!
What if the government didn't bail out Chrysler ?
And the bond holders got less or zip ? Sounds to me like mom crying poor to dad with roof over her head and a loaf of bread under her arm.
they wouldn't get "zip".
when you buy a candy bar at a convenient store, usually the clerk doesn't take your money and put the candy back on the shelf, which is precisely what the obama administration did do to these bondholders after taking over both chrysler and gm. if a real bankruptcy took place, there would be assets there for the bondholders to choose from. not the uaw or the government, trying to pose as the american taxpayer.
IDUNNO whose assumption is correct (assets)
Yours or mine ? But here in Chicago, I've seen companies such as Brach Candy (former employer) sell its worlds largest candy manufacturing complex to the City of Chicago for $1.00 and they weren't even bankrupt. Not to mention the former Zenith plant less than a mile from me after multi-million dollar upgrading the plant, it went under and the whole complex torn down.
Maybe or maybe not something is better than nothing ? Who in the hell wants GM or Chrysler crap anyways ?
I just came back from a my grandsons 6 y/o birthday party, and I commented everybody that was there was mostly driving Toyota's, except my son and daughter (Fords and Chrysler's). My son said he'd never buy another Ford or Dodge again. The daughter has a Ford convertible and if it wasn't for her boyfriends paying for expensive repairs she would be riding a bus. I'm glad she is a looker otherwise she'd be putting the arm on me. There is a God.
well, you're right.
there are some assets that suck, and some that don't. i'm pretty sure at least one of those factories is capable of building a tata nano, which is exactly the kind of car this country needs right now. the difference between candy that can be sold for a buck a bag and factories that have the simple technology it takes to produce extremely cheap cars is vast. toyota is better than gm and chrysler, but it has nothing on tata. toyota is too busy building hybrids, rather than making cars you can seriously buy for 2,000 dollars.
i lived in chicago for years. in logan square, uptown and rogers park. i worked on north halsted.
I was born in Chicago
But always lived in the burb's - although I worked at Brach's the '70's (Lake & Cicero).
Brach couldn't compete because they didn't have their own sugar like their competitors. They moved equipment to Costa Rica but by the time they got the candy to market the humidity solidified it. They lost big-time millions in Tijuana too - water supply was not reliable, and South of the boarder workers wouldn't work overtime. They then went to Argentina.
It will be awhile before tata catches on; what we need is a transportation system like Japan, Germany and France - not more cars !
I've been using former Illinois Governor Blago's senior ride free passes on public transportation from my corner bus stop to the train downtown to the Elgin River boat casino buffet and back. I think I could get used to this idea of Socialism being crammed down my throat (smile). Maybe his jury will give him a free pass too ? I know I would (wink). At least he did something for the people.
i think we need both.
public transport and cars, we can leave transport to local governments and car making to the private sector where it undoubtedly belongs. the cta is pretty much contracted out. remember when they made that huge scare last year about fairs going up if they didn't receive funding, then they got the funding and raised fairs anyway? i believe that's when they made the free senior passes available. public transport in bangkok, thailand blows away the cta and makes it look like the wild west.
a lot of new drivers, the kids coming out of high school are the ones buying new cars. it'd be great if nano's were available to those kids. our government will not allow tata to manufacture those cheap cars here for two reasons. price controls and insane safety restrictions. i think we need to get rid of these insane restrictions and nationalizations and let that happen for these kids.
blogojevich was clearly innocent. chicago, communist politics as usual.
In principle I agree about the tata
But after being run over by a semi-tractor that didn't see me and a a Dodge caravan making a left hand turn head-on into me in a green light intersection at 35 mph each while I was in my Toyota Celica GT; I DUNNO if I would want my grandkids in a tata. My son has been in some very serious wrecks, that I know about while driving a Chevrolet suburban and a Chevrolet camaro (both totaled).
In summary, at 66, I avoid long road trips, driving at night and wouldn't want my grandkids to have small cars with the morons who are driving today; I rather they take public transportation.
I bought both my children new cars in high school and after, and would never buy a car for a child again knowing what I know now. Walk until you can buy your own damn car.
I didn't learn how to drive until I was 21 years old in the Marine Corps just before I got out (22). I could of learned in the Corps when I was 17 years old, but if you had a license to drive in the Marine Corps, you were setting yourself up to be detailed for a working party to clean vehicles at the motor pool (greasy-dirty stuff), I was too smart for that. I suppose I could of learned and never got a military drivers license, but I had no one to buy me a car or could afford one, my poor kid Marine Corps buddies didn't either, we took the bus or train in the '60's. One young hot-shot Sergeant that borrowed a corporals new VW that he bought with his 6 year re-enlistment money, $2000, totaled his car and put a big scar clean across the top of his head ear to ear rolling the car over several times. My high school buddy an Illinois State Champion wrestler hit a tree in his dads car while I was in boot-camp that ended his wrestling career and killed the home coming queens sister. Maybe I was the lucky one not having a car ?
you are in chicago.
i am in detroit right now. both are the moron driver's collective capital of the country. public transport is good for both places, but you can't take the same public transportation to alaska or texas from here. it takes a personal vehicle of some sort if you don't want to bankrupt yourself taking planes, trains and buses for insane fairs.
of course, there is the possibility of accidents. that possibility is everywhere, but it's not our representative's job to try to regulate that with an unrealistic view of both the facts and the law.
living in chicago is so expensive, i couldn't afford a car living there either. i took my bike and public transportation, but i was trapped inside that concrete waffle, and got tired of it.
crazy stories. i have a few stories along those lines myself. we need to take responsibility for those things ourselves, instead of relying on our representative body to regulate it in some crazy way.
Airplane expense
The wife goes home to Japan every few years or so. I just checked the tickets I bought last month to see if they went up. They did, $1400. I don't feel so bad now. My hotel was quoted in ¥, wish me luck, it's 98 ¥ right now. The last time we were there, 2006 it was ¥ 118. I lost 20 % so far and haven't even stepped out the door.
BTW, you have to be careful in Japan, they quote hotel rates by the person. I think they like to see us Yankees squirm. No tipping in Japan.