The shit was hitting the fan and a lot of people were saying it was a good idea and its the sort of case where if two options are equally unsure in peoples eyes and one is to act and the other is to do nothing, people will want you to act. Bad move, IMO, but I consider the whole auto bailout less a right/left ideology issue as a bad but understandable crisis response, I don't really see the decision to do it as a black mark on congress or POTUS, what came after, when the immediate dust had settled, is another story.



Crony Capitalism is also anathema to free market capitalists, better article for that too, that article really needs to be flagged for NPOV and Soap, I see its been flagged twice for deletion.

Can't say I object to parceling out the stock to the taxpayers, puts the ball in their court, seems a waste of cash though, shipping everyone one share, from a philosophical POV I sort of like the idea of parceling out ownership of shares if the taxpayers have to foot the bill, just divide up the current gov't stock into 300 million shares and send everybody one. Probably even boost sales by a noticeable amount, silly from a practical standpoint though but it's an interesting notion, might be worth it just to see the effect.



Well, the problem is nobody believes their motives really revolved around human rights. A lot of people were conflicted about letting it fail, me too, I just stuck to my ideological guns which is why I say I wasn't particular irritated that they chose to do it, just with how they've managed it since then. GM's one of our flagships, hard to watch it sink.



Oh, I really doubt our oil based jugular economy will last more than another 10-30 years, the same teams that grew and transplanted human windpipes have a bunch of successfully growing human hearts that are expected to start beating any time in the next week or so. That's some pretty badass shit. It only takes one big shifter product to change the whole dynamic, and better batteries, better superconductors, fusion, some GM plant or algae that can grow off green light too, any of those change the dynamic on energy problems. There's a lot of things that look right over the horizon, some don't pan out as hoped for like jetpacks, others we're way ahead of schedule on like cell phones and computing power, remember back in the early 90s when Virtual Reality was all the rave? Kinda disappeared into the vacuum, but the iPad's basically better than the cool little handheld readers they liked to show on Star Trek, being able to pull up wikipedia on something you keep in your pocket is a pretty mundane thing, but that's really huge, you can see people laughing about that as pie-in-the-sky even 20 years ago. Cheer up, don't be so pessimistic.



Makes good compost probably, not sure about the inks they use in it though.