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November 19, 2008
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
G.M. CEO Rick Wagoner's case for a taxpayer handout to his firm is a lemon ("Why GM Deserves Support," Nov. 19). The bulk of it is annual-report-style bragging…
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November 19, 2008
Networks
Back Big Three Bailout
Network journalists are rushing to
promote a taxpayer bailout for American automakers without
exploring one…
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November 19, 2008
The news media have, for two weeks, endlessly expressed outrage at AIG’s spending several hundred thousand dollars on a sales conference held at a Phoenix resort – after getting federal bailout billions. The impression conveyed has been that…
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November 19, 2008
At the time of the votes on the $700-billion bailout bill, which finally passed Oct. 4, there were dire warnings of calamity if the bill failed. Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., said martial law would have to be enacted to keep…
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November 19, 2008
When America battled for economic supremacy against Taiwan, Japan, Germany and others, many of us adopted a patriotic battle cry. “Buy American!” we exclaimed and many of us did.
In 2008 we are still buying American, but that phrase has…
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November 18, 2008
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Martin Feldstein and George Will each offer excellent reasons for opposing a bailout of Detroit automakers (Opinion, Nov. 18). Here's another: resources given by…
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November 18, 2008
Gas prices have been in freefall lately, offering a little solace to nervous consumers. But as the Business & Media Institute has documented, many in the media seem to pine for last summer’s “pain at the pump” stories…
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November 18, 2008
Before the government decides to use $25 billion or more taxpayer dollars to rescue General Motors it would be helpful to understand how the company got into its financial predicament.
CNN’s “…
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November 18, 2008
It seems that William Ayers, President-elect Barack Obama’s associate and a former Weather Underground terrorist, awakened from his Owellian nightmare to give us a vision for public education he called “social justice.”
In an appearance at the…
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November 17, 2008
Perhaps Newton’s Third Law applies to economics also: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
That’s the way it seemed when Cameron Hanover’s Peter Beutel appeared in an…