Re: [MBZ] OT A letter from GM and a response from an industry vendor's President.

2008-12-29 Thread Mountain Man
--R wrote: he said he would not have given the banks a penny of bailout money. I believe that that program is operating correctly and successfully - if I am to believe the news stories. Along with anyone here, we have heard for months that the money is going to scoundrels who squandered their

Re: [MBZ] OT A letter from GM and a response from an industry vendor's President.

2008-12-29 Thread Rich Thomas
GMAC became a bank the other day to get TARP money. American Express became a bank to get TARP money. This is to offset all the defaulted loans and credit cards they were so happy to give out to any and everyone. I want to become a bank to get TARP money (just a billion or two, not much).

Re: [MBZ] OT A letter from GM and a response from an industry vendor's President.

2008-12-29 Thread LWB250
My brother works for a small midwestern bank that is very well capitalized due to its conservative lending and investment practices. He related this to me when we were chatting over the holidays: The government is offering TARP funds to all banks. They were told that if they participated in

Re: [MBZ] OT A letter from GM and a response from an industry vendor's President.

2008-12-29 Thread Rich Thomas
Can't be true under the new Obama administration -- all will be sweetness and light, milk and honey, open and honest and transparent, and gosh darn it, people will like them! --R LWB250 wrote: My brother works for a small midwestern bank that is very well capitalized due to its conservative

Re: [MBZ] OT A letter from GM and a response from an industry vendor's President.

2008-12-29 Thread Mountain Man
--R wrote: Can't be true under the new Obama administration -- all will be sweetness and light, milk and honey, open and honest and transparent, and gosh darn it, people will like them! Lie-ing, thieving, sacks of crap - that's all. mao ___

Re: [MBZ] OT A letter from GM and a response from an industry vendor's President.

2008-12-29 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
BZZT, WRONG, topic for banned lite, not here. Rich Thomas wrote: Can't be true under the new Obama administration -- all will be sweetness and light, milk and honey, open and honest and transparent, and gosh darn it, people will like them! --R -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 92 300SD,

Re: [MBZ] OT A letter from GM and a response from an industry vendor's President.

2008-12-29 Thread Hendrik Fay
Seems to be the typical small business owner mantra. Look how efficiently I can run my operation, why can't big business be like me? The workers are overpaid, blah blah blah, I pay mine minimum wage, blah blah blah, a pizza lunch is their Christmas bonus. Unions are evil, blah blah blah, get

[MBZ] OT A letter from GM and a response from an industry vendor's President.

2008-12-28 Thread Rich Thomas
There was lots of discussion on this topic a coupla weeks ago, I got this from someone else, seems a point/counterpoint. --R A letter from GM and a response from an industry vendor's President. ~~ Next week, Congress and the current Administration will

Re: [MBZ] OT A letter from GM and a response from an industry vendor's President.

2008-12-28 Thread OK Don
So, why wasn't Gregory Knox running for office? On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote: There was lots of discussion on this topic a coupla weeks ago, I got this from someone else, seems a point/counterpoint. --R A letter from GM and a