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Meet the GOP's wrecking crew

Why did a small group of Southern Republicans turn the auto bailout into a demolition derby? Introducing the senators who hate unions and love foreign cars.

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  • Saturday, December 13, 2008 07:50 PM

    The Big 3's Failures Have NOTHING to do with labor costs...

    . NO!

    The problems have been--and continue to be--with the "Captains of Industry" running them.

    For 40 years, they have been running the companies all-reactively. Little or no innovation to meet the new challenges in transportation; only newness a

    "at the edges."

    ]They continued to build masive cars weighing thousands of pounds more than necessary, containing engines over-adequate to run these behemoths, The natural result has been a giant waste of irreplaceable natural rersources which will too soon run out, "justifying car" buyers' expenditure of too much $$ for each such outofdate car coming off the assembly line AND making a nasty assured global warming,to boot.

    And YOU blame the workers?? BS!

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