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Obama, GM and Chrysler

By James Pethokoukis

Posted: April 30, 2009

Why are people worried about government involvement in the auto industry? It's because they fear that we'll get the car version of these things.

New Normal

The folks at Psychology of the Call blog have tweaked this political freak show as the "new abnormal". I agree that GM and Chrysler were poorly run, their time had come to go under, but no gov't should ever push them over that edge.

Avi of IL @ May 31, 2009 11:38:28 AM

Free Markets work

Just because every socialist country in the world has people wanting to leave those countries, we still have morons who think that it is better than what we have. GM and Chrysler should be allowed to fail miserably for the problems they have caused and so should every bank that has stolen from us. If you work for them tough. Join the real world! The quality of US cars rank in the toilet for a reason. Remember the YUGO made under socialist circumstances? Just because Democrats think they can reinflate the bubble that has burst is no reason to try. Free market economies say that bad companies no matter how large or small need to go away. There is no such thing as a free lunch unless you live in Russia. If you believe that then go live their

Jeff of WI @ May 05, 2009 21:31:31 PM

welcome back

Pat,

Please check your punctuation and sentence structure before proclaiming anyone on this blog a non-thinker.

Tom of IL @ May 04, 2009 20:00:38 PM

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