Re: [Phys-l] Climate skeptic convinced by data. Was: Re: Mike Mann _The hockey

["LaMontagne, Bob" <RLAMONT@providence.edu>]

For some smoke and mirrors regarding this "payback"

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/26/lawmakers-accuse-gm-administration-misleading-public-loan-repayment/

http://everydayecon.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/did-gm-pay-back-its-loan-sort-of/

and for a reference from an unquestionably liberal source (read down to the last two lines)

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/17/business/fi-gm17

Bob at PC
(I don't follow the "some would rather the unemployed, just, die" shot. Rather asinine. A healthy, competitive economy does not have 9% unemployment.)

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Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Climate skeptic convinced by data. Was: Re: Mike Mann     _The hockey

On 2012, Feb 20, , at 20:34, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:

>  GM's punishment for engineered obsolescence was bankruptcy - only the intervention of a union oriented administration is keeping its rotting corpse alive at the expense of all the rest of us who could use that money to privately invest in Ford or other productive companies.


Bob has, evidently, not been reading the newspapers recently.



http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/02/17/gms-profit-boosts-obamas-second-term-prospects/



bc thinks:  better to prop up a firm than to add to the unemployment insurance.


p.s. Of course, some would rather the unemployed, just,       die.
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