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		By: dad29		</title>
		<link>https://norunnyeggs.com/2008/12/and-the-winner-is-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36774</link>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://norunnyeggs.com/2008/12/and-the-winner-is-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36764&quot;&gt;steveegg&lt;/a&gt;.

FWIW, Chrysler repaid the LOAN early, too!  What Bush did was a gift, whether he calls it that or not.

I repeat:  Fuck Bush!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://norunnyeggs.com/2008/12/and-the-winner-is-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36764">steveegg</a>.</p>
<p>FWIW, Chrysler repaid the LOAN early, too!  What Bush did was a gift, whether he calls it that or not.</p>
<p>I repeat:  Fuck Bush!</p>
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		By: steveegg		</title>
		<link>https://norunnyeggs.com/2008/12/and-the-winner-is-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36768</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[steveegg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://norunnyeggs.com/2008/12/and-the-winner-is-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36766&quot;&gt;Toren&lt;/a&gt;.

The steelworkers, PATCO and NWA mechanics didn&#039;t have a totality of government ready, willing and able to bail them out.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://norunnyeggs.com/2008/12/and-the-winner-is-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36766">Toren</a>.</p>
<p>The steelworkers, PATCO and NWA mechanics didn&#8217;t have a totality of government ready, willing and able to bail them out.</p>
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		By: Shoebox		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shoebox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://norunnyeggs.com/2008/12/and-the-winner-is-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36766&quot;&gt;Toren&lt;/a&gt;.

Or the Air Traffic Controllers or the NWA mechanics.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://norunnyeggs.com/2008/12/and-the-winner-is-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36766">Toren</a>.</p>
<p>Or the Air Traffic Controllers or the NWA mechanics.</p>
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		By: Toren		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Toren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The UAW ought to ask the steelworkers how refusing to budge worked out for them.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The UAW ought to ask the steelworkers how refusing to budge worked out for them.</p>
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		By: Big G		</title>
		<link>https://norunnyeggs.com/2008/12/and-the-winner-is-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36765</link>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Great analogy on the high school quarterback!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great analogy on the high school quarterback!</p>
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		By: steveegg		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No one, that is, except the bipartisan Party-In-Government.  That is not to say I am entirely opposed to the government providing DIP financing.  On balance, however, the fact that the government is now in long-term debt to the tune greater than the aggregate value of all the assets in the country, as well as the general principle that government shouldn&#039;t be in the business of owning business does have to weigh against the chance of Chapter 11 turning into Chapter 7.

As for the bailout, this is more like a situation faced by Studebaker/Nash/et al (and indeed, American Motors post-Renault) than Chrysler in 1979.  Unlike that singular event (when Chrysler Defense was the producer of the M-1 Abrams tank), there is no significant defense involvement with the Big Three.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No one, that is, except the bipartisan Party-In-Government.  That is not to say I am entirely opposed to the government providing DIP financing.  On balance, however, the fact that the government is now in long-term debt to the tune greater than the aggregate value of all the assets in the country, as well as the general principle that government shouldn&#8217;t be in the business of owning business does have to weigh against the chance of Chapter 11 turning into Chapter 7.</p>
<p>As for the bailout, this is more like a situation faced by Studebaker/Nash/et al (and indeed, American Motors post-Renault) than Chrysler in 1979.  Unlike that singular event (when Chrysler Defense was the producer of the M-1 Abrams tank), there is no significant defense involvement with the Big Three.</p>
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		By: Shoebox		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shoebox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://norunnyeggs.com/2008/12/and-the-winner-is-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36762&quot;&gt;dad29&lt;/a&gt;.

Without XI, someone will be negotiating without a knife at their neck while others will...that never works.  All parties need to feel the edge of the knife for this to work.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://norunnyeggs.com/2008/12/and-the-winner-is-2/comment-page-1/#comment-36762">dad29</a>.</p>
<p>Without XI, someone will be negotiating without a knife at their neck while others will&#8230;that never works.  All parties need to feel the edge of the knife for this to work.</p>
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		By: dad29		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Agreed...Chapter XI is best.

Gummint is the only one who&#039;s big enough to provide DIP finance, so let that happen.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Agreed&#8230;Chapter XI is best.</p>
<p>Gummint is the only one who&#8217;s big enough to provide DIP finance, so let that happen.</p>
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