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Saturday, December 13, 2008 12:00 AM

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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  • Sunday, December 14, 2008 08:59 AM

    A couple of points

    Nearly all the foreign automakers receive funding from their respective governments to stay competitive. Smart moves by them it looks like.

    All of the foreign auto plants in the South received hundreds of millons if not billions to bring their factories to the South. Just a fact.

    All the Southern states receive more tax money back from the federal govt. than they pay in. I wonder where that comes from?

    The powers behind the curtain are winning, the middle class is warring on the middle class. The real problems started in board rooms, country clubs, 2 martini lunches, private jets flying over the people so that they can be ignored, the people who control our country don't see us as people, just puppets to be manipulated. When the money lenders and parasites on the backside of America can isolate themselves from contact with us ordinary people, we don't exist, we are a caricature in a comic, or at very best an annoying necessity.

    Positive suggestions are few while BS seems to rule. The pompous asses we elect do not have our good will at heart only their own gain in all too many cases.

    Oh and there is no God of Globalization, it is just a term used to gut the world.

    The Free Market Easter Bunny doesn't lay golden eggs.

    The Trickle Down Santa has only delivered deceit and misery.

    People, all of us need to count for what we are, human beings. This is left out all too often.

    Remember in the words of Red Green, we are all in this together and I'm pullin for ya.

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