GM Spending $17 Million a Year on Viagra


One of Pelosi’s biggest fights currently is trying to help the flailing auto industry.

She and Reid are pushing for sweeping aid to the industry, which is suffering under the weight of poor sales, tight credit and a sputtering economy. She said Tuesday she was confident that lawmakers meeting next week in a lame-duck session would consider "emergency and limited financial assistance" under the $700 billion bailout measure that passed Congress in October. She urged the outgoing Bush administration to go along with a compromise.

Its over in Detroit

Lib's get their paws on big auto.....dictate time is here....hmm..what ideology goes that route...I'm at a loss....
 
So Bush/Paulson want to help out Wall Street. Now the Dem congress wants to help the Auto Industry. Where should it stop?

I have heard that 1 in 10 jobs in the USA are tied to the auto industry.

Good point...at what juncture is too much too much?

See the recent headlines? Everyone's lining up for welfare.Everybody with any debt.

WTF do I get an app?

Snowball effect 2101.......BFT.

Like I mentioned in another thread....How much cash we got?
 
Good point...at what juncture is too much too much?

See the recent headlines? Everyone's lining up for welfare.Everybody with any debt.

WTF do I get an app?

Snowball effect 2101.......BFT.

Like I mentioned in another thread....How much cash we got?

Hell I think all the airlines should line up, might as will grab some while the grabbings good!
 
Instead of giving the american auto industry $50 billion dollars............and employees free viagra...............why not give each american $30,000 and stipulate they must purchase a car with these funds ! Let the market decide who lives and dies , instead of Big Brother!

I'll tell you why..............The Demorats needs those money-suckin' unions to stay in office ! :shock:
 
Instead of giving the american auto industry $50 billion dollars............and employees free viagra...............why not give each american $30,000 and stipulate they must purchase a car with these funds ! Let the market decide who lives and dies , instead of Big Brother!

I'll tell you why..............The Demorats needs those money-suckin' unions to stay in office ! :shock:

SW....unionism was down to less than 12% membership the last I looked....the Dem's get boatloads of cash from other sources too....the international's funnel cash no doubt.I don't think the Dem's would die w/o union contributions though.
 
SW....unionism was down to less than 12% membership the last I looked....the Dem's get boatloads of cash from other sources too....the international's funnel cash no doubt.I don't think the Dem's would die w/o union contributions though.
Obama would still be our President-Elect without the union vote.
 
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Although Dodd said "we ought to do something" and personally backed using money from the ongoing $700 billion financial services rescue program to help Detroit, he was skeptical that enough Republicans would support a bailout.

So who's in bed with the BOD now Bear?

Doesn't look good for the home team this time.

"They should take every step possible, including cutting executive salaries and bonuses, and exhaust all alternatives before coming to the taxpayers for tens of billions of dollars in help," Charles Grassley of Iowa said.

The government would likely take an equity stake in the firms and Congress would impose stiff conditions.

And make white cars 3 foot by 5 foot that get 300 MPG.