On Jun 1, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Charles Bennett wrote: > Just in case you think it's all fat cats. > > http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/01/bondholder-furious-over-gm-bankruptcy/ > > Wrong union I guess.
Are you complaining that the administration is too 'socialist' or not socialist enough. > > My actual question is a simple. By what Constitutional authority can > the Govt. hold any shares of GM and give preferential treatment to > campaign donors (Autoworkers Uniion) > > I'm truly surprised that this isn't on the way to the Supreme Court to > be challenged. Crony capitalism, er public-private partnerships, has been a fixture of government at all levels and under both parties at least since the Reagan administration. > > (Same for the Banks and Chrysler too) > > If I had wanted stock in these dogs, I would have bought them > directly, not via my Congress Critter. I can't help seeing the auto company bailouts as more benign and as serving a greater public purpose than the interventions in the financial sector. I wonder if the nutters agree. --- Just because they're good at propaganda doesn't mean we have to be good at stupid. -Marty Kaplan _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
