[Rhodes22-list] Weekend reading, not sailing, some might call it political, just educational

[Robert Skinner]

And now Bush plans to once again betray
Republicans and Democrats alike by giving
the auto triple clowns a bailout, even as
the UAW stonewalls the country in an
attempt to cash in on the financial fall.

Disgusting!

/Robert

Brad Haslett wrote:
> Ed,
> 
> Never have I been so proud of a politician from Tennessee as I am of
> Senator Corker for killing the Detroit bailout.  His "unreasonable"
> demand was that the UAW accept US based Toyota/Nissan/Honda wages in
> 2009 and not in 2011.  How unreasonable was that?  In reality, that's
> just the tip of the iceberg.  The devil is always in the details - the
> meat of the problem is in work rules and benefits.  But, the UAW
> wouldn't budge on the simplest of compromises.  Let the  Big Three
> follow the path of the passenger airlines - Chapter 11.
> 
> Cheney & Bush, et al, are dead wrong on this issue.  Who cares if
> they're perceived as the Hoover 2 administration.  Steyn is correct,
> it was Hoover and FDR's policies that prolonged the recovery from the
> 1929 crash (read Amity Shlaes "The Forgotten Man").
> 
> Paul Volcker said back in the 70's, "you can't legislate away the
> business cycle" (and my economics prof. in grad school repeated it
> every class).  Hey, isn't Volker coming back into power?  If we don't
> keep a close eye on this, the incoming administration will use the
> current cycle as an excuse to shove more socialism down our throats,
> or up our arses. Thank goodness for people like Senator Corker.  Now
> the MSM is calling him "far right wing".  BS, having common sense is a
> more appropriate description.
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>> I get all sorts of emails, this web site was contained in one:
>>
>> http://www.alipac.us/article3815.html
>>
>> And some so called political rhetoric:  "Let's switch gears here for a
>> second. Apparently Dick Cheney, in a closed door Senate GOP lunch on
>> Wednesday, warned the GOP, quote, that it will be Herbert Hoover time if aid
>> to the industry was rejected for the bailout of the big three. This is
>> exactly the same kind of stuff that they were saying about the bank bailout,
>> but now they're saying it about GM. What do you think about what's going on
>> right now,?' [Glen Beck]
>>
>> Reply to question: "Well, I think there's no end to this bailout. It's
>> bailout without end. We need to find a way to bailout from the bailout and
>> actually, with respect to Dick Cheney, I think he's got it actually wrong
>> here. You know, it's very interesting to me, speaking as a foreigner, but
>> the Americans always talk about the great depression. In other countries,
>> they talk about it as a depression. It started in 1929, the worst was over
>> in three or four years. What prolonged it in the United States was both
>> Herbert Hoover and FDR over in overinterfering in the economy to impede
>> recovery. That's why it's a great depression in the United States and it's
>> just a depression everywhere else." Mark Steyn
>>
>> Ed K
>> addendum:  "Sextant: an entertaining, albeit expensive, device, which,
>> together with a good atlas, is of use in introducing the boatman to many
>> interesting areas on the earth's surface which he and his craft are not
>> within 1,000 nautical miles of." Beard and McKie
>>
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