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 Post subject: President Obama. Model for good spending. GM bail out. Do it
PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 6:56 pm 
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President Obama. Model for good spending. GM bail out. Do it again Please.

If I need say more, the U S population is not very intelligent.

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Bailouts are only for idiots because they subsidize poorly-run companies that in the natural order of things should file for bankruptcy. The plants and workers will still be there, and presumably a new company buying the assets will operate in a profitable manner.


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 Post subject: Re: President Obama. Model for good spending. GM bail out. D
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Bailouts are only for idiots because they subsidize poorly-run companies that in the natural order of things should file for bankruptcy. The plants and workers will still be there, and presumably a new company buying the assets will operate in a profitable manner.


Are you aware that G M is presently # 1 in world sales?

The bailout has shown great profit and since that model is still at hand, Obama should duplicate it as often as possible.

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bobevenson wrote:
Bailouts are only for idiots because they subsidize poorly-run companies that in the natural order of things should file for bankruptcy. The plants and workers will still be there, and presumably a new company buying the assets will operate in a profitable manner.


Are you aware that G M is presently # 1 in world sales?

The bailout has shown great profit and since that model is still at hand, Obama should duplicate it as often as possible.

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Shit, you don't know what you're talking about. GM may be first in auto sales, but that's about it. Please cite where you got this erroneous information. If bankers wouldn't loan GM any money, why the hell should American taxpayers??? The answer, my friend, is that it was a bad investment. Just because somebody wins the lottery doesn't make it a good investment.


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bobevenson wrote:
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bobevenson wrote:
Bailouts are only for idiots because they subsidize poorly-run companies that in the natural order of things should file for bankruptcy. The plants and workers will still be there, and presumably a new company buying the assets will operate in a profitable manner.


Are you aware that G M is presently # 1 in world sales?

The bailout has shown great profit and since that model is still at hand, Obama should duplicate it as often as possible.

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DL

Shit, you don't know what you're talking about. GM may be first in auto sales, but that's about it. Please cite where you got this erroneous information. If bankers wouldn't loan GM any money, why the hell should American taxpayers??? The answer, my friend, is that it was a bad investment. Just because somebody wins the lottery doesn't make it a good investment.


Seems that the U S won the lottery when they showed they had half a brain by electing Obama.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/arc ... ts/253806/

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Seems that the U S won the lottery when they showed they had half a brain by electing Obama.

I agree that Americans had half a brain when they elected Obama, who proceeded to spend billions of dollars of their hard-earned tax money on a lottery-type "investment" that fortunately paid off, but was none-the-less a stupid investment by generally-accepted accounting standards.


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bobevenson wrote:
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Seems that the U S won the lottery when they showed they had half a brain by electing Obama.

I agree that Americans had half a brain when they elected Obama, who proceeded to spend billions of dollars of their hard-earned tax money on a lottery-type "investment" that fortunately paid off, but was none-the-less a stupid investment by generally-accepted accounting standards.


Only if you ignore all the other bailouts that have been done before and after the one in question. They work whether you like it or not.

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Greatest I am wrote:
bobevenson wrote:
Greatest I am wrote:
Seems that the U S won the lottery when they showed they had half a brain by electing Obama.

I agree that Americans had half a brain when they elected Obama, who proceeded to spend billions of dollars of their hard-earned tax money on a lottery-type "investment" that fortunately paid off, but was none-the-less a stupid investment by generally-accepted accounting standards.


Only if you ignore all the other bailouts that have been done before and after the one in question. They work whether you like it or not.

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A stupid investment is a stupid investment, and what Obama has done is equivalent to a Ponzi scheme against the American public.


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A stupid investment is a stupid investment, and what Obama has done is equivalent to a Ponzi scheme against the American public.


Yep. Real stupid to make G M # 1 in sales in the world.

Go away with your foolish notions.

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bobevenson wrote:
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A stupid investment is a stupid investment, and what Obama has done is equivalent to a Ponzi scheme against the American public.


Yep. Real stupid to make G M # 1 in sales in the world.

Go away with your foolish notions.

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Again, GM is not No. 1 in sales, it is No. 1 in automobile sales until the next fucking bailout. But I guess that little distinction doesn't mean much to you, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!


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