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In response to Burr Deming's Mitt Romney's Managed Bankruptcy

Regardless of the claim that "GM is alive (though it is charity-funded life support)," the difference between Obama's Detroit bankruptcy idea and Romney's Detroit bankruptcy idea is that Obama's paid off the UAW (a Democratic special interest) by flouting hundreds of years of bankruptcy law to put the UAW ahead of other secured creditors. Cronyism over rule of law. Gotta love it. And Democrats are keen on citing fascism as a rightwing phenomenon...the Dems' whole Detroit scheme epitomizes fascism.

- "ned", October 14, 2012

Yep, we need the federal government still picking winners and losers in our free market society. GM was foolish in succumbing to union demands time and time again so that GM was no longer competitive with many of their automobiles. A managed bankruptcy to reorganize and remove that debt is what a regular business would have to do. President Obama though thought is best to ignore the assets that were by LAW owed to the bondholders and instead gave much of that to the unions.

So we ultimately have the federal government taking over a private business, fire its executives, put its own government-picked CEO who had no auto-manufacturing knowledge in charge, tell what the salaries of those executives would be, dictate what cars would be produced (bye bye Pontiac, Hummer, Oldsmobile, and Saturn!), and mandate the shut-down of many dealerships often seemingly based on their political affiliations. Yep, Ned is right. Marxism/Fascism seems to be alive and well in the Democratic Party.

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