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09.08.2009 5:57 pm

How long until America is Thurd World?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

My fellow citizens, what is happening can’t continue.  The bailout of the banks last year was wrong.  It was engineered by a Treasury Sec’y whose previos job was at one of the big banks that he bailed out.  Next we…

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08.06.2009 7:13 pm

Cash for Clunkers outrage is misplaced

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
You folks at the Post should give David Nicklaus an asprin.  He’s obviously got Compulsive Outrage Disorder.  The purpose of the Clunkers program was not to support the auto industry or the economy, it was to get old, inefficient cars…
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08.03.2009 5:21 pm

Thanks for the training funds, but we’d rather have the jobs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I have to give credit to local UAW leaders Shield and Ackerman for expressing their anger and dissappoint to Car Czar Montgomery and Senator McCaskill.  While not the biggest supporter of unions and believe that they share in the blame of Amercian car companies…

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07.29.2009 5:11 pm

Congress and Chrysler forge a moral dilemma for car buyers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

After receiving billions from taxpayers to save them from bankruptcy and prevent the loss of thousands of American jobs, Chrysler has downsized and reorganized under court supervised bankruptcy anyway. In doing so, they have closed many major manufacturing plants, severed…

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06.01.2009 5:23 pm

Government ownership of GM doesn’t benefit anyone

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

     The government has a plan for General Motors. The government will continue to give GM money, which will benefit GM and its suppliers. Adding money to the economy will benefit the economy.

     However, as part of the plan, the…

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05.22.2009 6:07 pm

It is time to get out fiscal house in order (by spending)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
     First, “get our fiscal house in order” is a code phrase for run surpluses. Secretary Geithner seems not to realize that every time the U.S. has run surpluses, or even reduced deficit growth, we either have had recessions or…
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04.29.2009 5:10 pm

Let the auto companies declare bankruptcy while they can

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I’m singing “Sixteen Tons another day older and deeper in debt, I owe my soul to the government and UAW.”

Let the auto companies slide into bankruptcy which would be the logical way to go. With all these enormous loans…

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04.21.2009 5:01 pm

Fannie CEO overseeing TARP is reprehensible

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Since your new format,myself and I’m sure others can only find full page advertisements.But Saturday I found on page 10, bottom right corner “Fannie Ceo to oversee Tarp.” Hey,whats this? Obama will nominate Fannie Mae Chief Executive Herb Allison to…

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04.17.2009 9:45 pm

Restricting compensation would hinder recovery

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Banks already have begun to return federal assistance money. They don’t want to live with restrictions in executive compensation and other areas. While these restrictions have support amongst the uninformed, they are counter-recovery – a classic example of unintended consequences.

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04.02.2009 4:04 pm

The government is trying to do too much

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dear Editor,

Recent articles and editorials regarding the country’s and its citizens financial problems seem to focus on two points of view: those coming from a liberal perspective talk about government spending record amounts of money to push cash into the…

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