Bailout to Nowhere

Democrats from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi want to grant immortality to General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. They have decided to follow an earlier $25 billion loan with a $50 billion bailout, which would inevitably be followed by more billions later, because if these companies are not permitted to go bankrupt now, they never will be.

This is a different sort of endeavor than the $750 billion bailout of Wall Street. That money was used to save the ... Full Story »

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Kaizar Campwala
3.6
by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 16, 2008

Brooks makes some solid points in the piece decrying a bailout of the auto industry. He fails to tell readers what a failure of the big three would mean for the American economy in the short and medium term, however.

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