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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:44 am
The CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation's capital yesterday in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto industry is running out of cash and needs $25 billion in taxpayer money to avoid bankruptcy.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/WallStree ... 739&page=1
I say off with their heads
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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frogman042
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by frogman042 » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:24 pm
That's because they couldn't rely on their own vehicles to get them there.
---Jay
