{"id":193580,"date":"2008-12-05T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/05\/even-now-putting-politics-ahead-of-country\/"},"modified":"2008-12-05T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T23:30:00","slug":"even-now-putting-politics-ahead-of-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/05\/even-now-putting-politics-ahead-of-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Now, Putting Politics Ahead of Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Bush is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/bush-automakers-may-not-survive-2008-12-05.html\">wondering if the Big 3 (Big 2\u00bd) are a prudent taxpayer investment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>President Bush on Friday said he is worried about giving taxpayer money to car companies that \u201cmay not survive.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After giving, what, 5 times that amount to an just one insurance insurance company, and engineering something on the order of <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/77-trillion.html\">200 times that amount<\/a> for wall street in exchange for stock that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gWUdHqINUMteVxX1x3qwiJvVEmSQD94SGESG0\">has already lost a third of its value<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Big finance is a political ally, so they must be saved.<\/p>\n<p>The UAW is the enemy, and so must be crushed, even if it means that there will be a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">6 month period where no cars at all are assembled in the US<\/span>, by either surviving members of the Big 3 (Big 2\u00bd) or by the transplants like Toyota, Honda, etc. because of suppliers <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">going into bankruptcy like dominoes<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, you would start seeing shortages on spare parts for the cars, adversely effecting the auto repair business.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, when you see this level of disregard of the basic well being of the country because of political expediency, there is only one thing to day, &#8220;The Hague, bitches.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Bush is wondering if the Big 3 (Big 2\u00bd) are a prudent taxpayer investment: President Bush on Friday said he is worried about giving taxpayer money to car companies that \u201cmay not survive.\u201d After giving, what, 5 times that amount to an just one insurance insurance company, and engineering something on the order of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,970,1182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-corruption","category-george-w-bush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}