Comments on: What The Hell Is Going On In Washington?

By: Kaye Stare

Kaye Stare — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:14:23 +0000

Interesting and Great blog love it

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:33:27 +0000

AJ – that is some pent up hostility. You’re quite possibly right though that our posterity may have a major debt to pay. I am not personally happy about that, but I’m not in a position to do anything about it at this point in my life.

What do you think needs to be done?

By: Aj

Aj — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:19:57 +0000

what is the biggest collection of screw-up on this side of the planet. A goverment for the people ha! it’s more a goverment that F*&KS the people Hard!!!! and then informs them that their unborn children are already born in to debt.

By: Scott Wimer

Scott Wimer — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:43:24 +0000

The "Big 3" are in their current situation due to decades long management and UAW short-sightedness. No bailout is going to change that. It would make much better sense to run them through an accelerated bankruptcy and use the $25 billion to help Toyota or Honda, or Nissan buy their assets. At least these companies know what their doing. They're not American companies though, so this has precisely zero chance of flying. Scott Wimers last blog post..Crazy times

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:36:28 +0000

Great comments Blake and AmeriGlide.

joe blow I want to comment on what you had to say. I definitely agree with you that the U.S. automakers are not well run. I don’t necessarily think they “deserve” a bailout and my point is moreso that if we’re doing it for everyone else… why not the big three? Especially when the costs are so much lower.

On that note I do like what you have to say about starting up clean energy startups. Interesting idea indeed. Do you know much about this?

By: joe blow

joe blow — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:07:10 +0000

I’d like to bail them out. But let’s consider it money SPENT, economic stimulus if you must. The fact is that these companies are fat, lazy and stupid. They cannot compete, and they’ve shown no inclination to change. So if we do give them 25 Billion, how long will it last? I do not see a magical turn around. I see a money pit. That said it might be one of the BETTER money pits around.

Seems to me that 25 Billion could create 2000 new startup companies each working to produce clean energy products. Each employing 40-80 people for a minimum of 3 years.

By: AmeriGlide

AmeriGlide — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:48:44 +0000

I think that you bring up an interesting point about how $25B is in some regards, as sad as it is to say, a drop in the bucket compared to the bailout.

I was listening to NPR last night and they had someone on stated the CEO’s of the big three showed up in private jets, which is kind of like showing up at the soup kitchen in a suit and top hat. Of course it is much more complicated than this, but in so far as they have been running their businesses, I think this comparison is fair.

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:04:44 +0000

The UAW is trying to fly under the radar, but if Washington REALLY wants to save Detroit, the union has got to be led to the chopping block. I don't see any other way. Blakes last blog post..My Little Civic at 105,000