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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 08:38 PM Original message |
There are 'one too many' automakers, Bank of America CEO says |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. .....says the CEO of an industry thats consolidated itself to the point |
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OregonBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 12:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
55. Chinese car makers plan to aquire GM & Chrysler-emptywheel article at firedoglake. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 12:38 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Interesting |
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OregonBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 12:59 PM Response to Reply #56 |
59. LOL. That might work. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 01:31 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. More likely |
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OregonBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 01:35 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. Yes and be left with many, many dealerships to distribute THEIR Chinese brands. |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. These guys get paid the big bucks for what exactly??? |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 05:48 AM Response to Reply #2 |
18. Purely and simply ... |
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UpInArms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
3. UIA says there are 156 too many banks with their hands in the taxpayers' pockets |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
4. I know. The Big 3 can merge with a foreign automaker. Then we'll buy their cars. nt |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. There are one to many banks. If this isn't obvious I don't know what is, the more nonsense |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
6. They are determined to break the UAW |
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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 08:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. That's why they want Chapter 11 bankruptcy. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 03:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
64. In Chapter 11, does that free the company from paying all three you listed? |
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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 04:13 PM Response to Reply #64 |
65. Yes, if so ordered by the bankruptcy judge. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 04:17 PM Response to Reply #65 |
66. That is scary, it that happens. |
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The Wizard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Toyota wouldn't open an assembly plant |
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HowHasItComeToThis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:59 AM Response to Reply #15 |
46. BINGO, REPUBLICANS ARE A DISEASE |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 10:54 AM Response to Reply #15 |
51. News flash: Toyota is building a plant in Tupelo, MS |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 05:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
68. Woohoo! No Unions! |
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bluesmail (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
8. Till one corporation owns... oh crap, IT'S EXXON! RUN! |
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Truth Teller (479 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. Truth Teller says..... |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Your sig line just hit me between the eyes. Thank you. |
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Truth Teller (479 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 10:46 AM Response to Reply #17 |
50. It's a great one, isn't it? n/t |
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burrowowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
10. BoA |
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tismyself (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
11. Thus the Mouth of Sauron has spoken. |
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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
12. BoA/Merrill has taken $25 BILLION of taxpayer money in the bailout |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
13. How much does this bastard steal from his company? |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
14. We should only have one car manufacturer, one restaurant, one bank, one hotel, |
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malletgirl02 (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 11:35 AM Response to Reply #14 |
53. I know you are being Sarastic |
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JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
16. That's funny, I was thinking the same thing about the banks |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 07:51 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. The irony indeed.... You make an excellent point.... |
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DogPoundPup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
20. Bank CEO who took bailout opposes aid for automakers |
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Iwillnevergiveup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I got mine |
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Joe Bacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #21 |
36. I see Ayn as in Mine Rand is alive and well |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #21 |
38. That's how they think. Right on the nosey. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 01:36 PM Response to Reply #21 |
62. a great way to illustrate the difference in thinking between democrats and repugs- |
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Frisbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Pot, meet kettle...kettle, meet pot. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Yeah 'cause as we learned us here already |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 12:43 PM Response to Reply #23 |
57. They do make one thing: loans |
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Anarcho-Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. when Britain's manufacturing industries died in the 1980s and 1990s |
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bluesbassman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Pray tell Mr. Lewis, what strategies have you and your buddies changed? |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
26. Wow. At least the auto manufacturers in today's Senate hearing said they'd be willing to |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
27. HA! HA! HA! HA! WHAT A PIG DICK! n/t |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
28. I guess the big 3 could borrow $25 billion from Bank of America. |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
29. Corporate America would be happy with 800,000 retirees losing their medical benefits. |
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bulloney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
30. We have idiots like Lewis support the death of the largest area of U.S. manufacturing. |
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Kalyan (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
31. preaching !!! |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
32. And I think America has (at least) one too many greedy, assholian, arrogant, hypocritical CEOs. |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
33. It's the "I want it all" mentality |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
34. It's those damn unions' fault! Damn them to hell!! |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. It always gets me how people that would never ever in a million years ... |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Assembly line workers are very handsomely paid, even when laid off or on plant shutdowns |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
35. I agree with him.... |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #35 |
42. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing GM and Ford split into pieces |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
40. to quote Pink Floyd |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
41. I me me mine. |
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Festivito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
43. Kill UNIONS and COMPETITION. Another fascist RWer. |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 AM Response to Reply #20 |
44. The bastard is against an auto bailout, because the greedy ass already got his. |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
45. Yeah let us listen to the wisdom of the banking industry |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
47. There are several too many banks. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 12:48 PM Response to Reply #47 |
58. And asshats like this one |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
48. Monopolies are bad for the economy. (nt) |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
49. I think there's one too many CEO's |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
52. So which one needs to go? |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
54. There are 'one too many' big banks, Detroit CEOs say. n/t |
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Strawman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
63. Arguing for a hard landing for the auto industry in a recession is insane |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
67. Pot, meet kettle: Bank of America sees record credit card losses. |
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