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... bad news for Ford shareholder.

What DAR said.

I won't rant because I love you guys so much, but Ford is getting screwed for reading the writing on the wall and taking appropriate action. I've got money that says federal vehicle purchases will no longer have Ford in the mix, regardless of relative value.

Meh. All great nations must come to an end. I still believe that our system is strong enough that I will be long dead before our eventual fall into despotism.

Ya think?

You can't make sense of a guy with a liberal arts degree and a law degree, whose prior business experience was 'community organizing,' suddenly taking over almost at gunpoint and becoming the de facto CEO of two of the three formerly surviving U.S. automobile manufacturers in the largest hostile takeover in history? That's odd.

Beats me, I'm a stranger here, myself.

As I (and a couple of other commenters on Balko's site) pointed out, he can hardly do worse than the "business professionals" who ran the companies into the ground.

No, Aresen. They can do much worse. They now have the incentive to destroy all other car companies otherwise they look like fools. I suspect Obama Inc has the fucktards necessary to pull it off.

You're giving them encouragement. Aid and comfort to the enemy and all that ;)

Which raises the question (happy?), given what's happened, should a small-gov't advocate buy a GM or a Chrysler, or avoid them, or agitate for a boycott? If this experiment fails, the taxpayer is on the hook (and, more people lose their jobs). If the experiment succeeds, it emboldens further gov't interventions in the economy, but, taxpayers will cut their losses. In a situation in which the choices are failure in which the government throws good money after bad, or success in which government power extends, how should we be rooting?

I lean towards rooting for utter failure, though it once again makes libertarians look heartless to the general public. I figure the moral hazard of future problems outweighs getting a few tens of billions back. Which I'm sure would just be re-wasted on some sort of metaphorical gov't version of hookers and blow.

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I had a similar experience renting an Aveo. Horrible car. It makes me think that the killing of GM's chinese car deal isn't a bad idea; it's hard to think of an example where importing and rebadging a small cheap Asian (non-Japanese) car has actually resulted in success.

Timothy, I think it's perfectly clear by now that what the UAW wants is far more important to the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party Congress than what the American people want.

What's interesting is that the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party Congress will continue to have the support of the American people. Or, at least enough of it to stay in power.

Edit: I might add, that I am absolutely intrigued by the nativist sentiments involved in insisting that "we" must have an "American Automobile Industry" when the world is absolutely full of the kind of "diverse" and "multi-cultural" entities that are absolutely dying (almost literally one might say) to sell us cars. Even to the point of building factories in the land of the free and the home of the brave. And hiring the free and the brave to work in 'em.

Shows to go ya, I guess, "plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose." Who'd'a guessed the frogs would have anticipated our dear leader.

Was it cobalt blue?

Ah, Ruzzel, not bad, but not nearly as good as your other attempt.