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    Greg Palast
    June 2, 2009

    Screw the autoworkers.

    They may be crying about General Motors’ bankruptcy today.  But dumping 40,000 of the last 60,000 union jobs into a mass grave won’t spoil Jamie Dimon’s day.

    featured stories   Grand Theft Auto: How Stevie the Rat bankrupted GM
    Rattner
    Financier, private equity investor, and “Car Czar” at the Treasury Department, Steven Rattner.

    Dimon is the CEO of JP Morgan Chase bank.  While GM workers are losing their retirement health benefits, their jobs, their life savings; while shareholders are getting zilch and many creditors getting hosed, a few privileged GM lenders – led by  Morgan and Citibank – expect to get back 100% of their loans to GM, a stunning $6 billion.

    The way these banks are getting their $6 billion bonanza is stone cold illegal.

    I smell a rat.

    Stevie the Rat, to be precise.  Steven Rattner, Barack  Obama’s ‘Car Czar’ – the man who essentially ordered GM into bankruptcy this morning.

    When a company goes bankrupt, everyone takes a hit:  fair or not, workers lose some contract wages, stockholders get wiped out and creditors get fragments of what’s left.  That’s the law.  What workers don’t lose are their pensions (including old-age health funds) already taken from their wages and held in their name.

    But not this time.  Stevie the Rat has a different plan for GM: grab the pension funds to pay off Morgan and Citi.

    Here’s the scheme:  Rattner is demanding the bankruptcy court simply wipe away the money GM owes workers for their retirement health insurance.  Cash in the insurance fund would be replaced by GM stock. The percentage may be 17% of GM’s stock – or 25%.  Whatever, 17% or 25% is worth, well … just try paying for your dialysis with 50 shares of bankrupt auto stock.

    Yet Citibank and Morgan, says Rattner, should get their whole enchilada – $6 billion right now and in cash – from a company that can’t pay for auto parts or worker eye exams.

    Preventive Detention for Pensions

    So what’s wrong with seizing workers’ pension fund money in a bankruptcy?  The answer, Mr. Obama, Mr. Law Professor, is that it’s illegal.

    In 1974, after a series of scandalous take-downs of pension and retirement funds during the Nixon era, Congress passed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.  ERISA says you can’t seize workers’ pension funds (whether monthly payments or health insurance) any more than you can seize their private bank accounts.  And that’s because they are the same thing:  workers give up wages in return for retirement benefits.

    The law is darn explicit that grabbing pension money is a no-no.  Company executives must hold these retirement funds as “fiduciaries.”  Here’s the law, Professor Obama, as described on the government’s own web site under the heading, “Health Plans and Benefits.”

    “The primary responsibility of fiduciaries  is to run the plan solely in the interest of participants and beneficiaries  and for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits.”

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    Every business in America that runs short of cash would love to dip into retirement kitties, but it’s not their money any more than a banker can seize your account when the bank’s a little short.  A plan’s assets are for the plan’s members only, not for Mr. Dimon nor Mr. Rubin.

    Yet, in effect, the Obama Administration is demanding that money for an elderly auto worker’s spleen should be siphoned off to feed the TARP babies. Workers go without lung transplants so Dimon and Rubin can pimp out their ride. This is another “Guantanamo” moment for the Obama Administration – channeling Nixon to endorse the preventive detention of retiree health insurance.

    Filching GM’s pension assets doesn’t become legal because the cash due the fund is replaced with GM stock.  Congress saw through that switch-a-roo by requiring that companies, as fiduciaries, must

    “…act prudently and must diversify the plan’s investments in order to minimize the risk of large losses.”

    By “diversify” for safety, the law does not mean put 100% of worker funds into a single busted company’s stock.

    This is dangerous business:  The Rattner plan opens the floodgate to every politically-connected or down-on-their-luck company seeking to drain health care retirement funds.

    House of Rubin

    Pensions are wiped away and two connected banks don’t even get a haircut? How come Citi and Morgan aren’t asked, like workers and other creditors, to take stock in GM?

    As Butch said to Sundance, who ARE these guys? You remember Morgan and Citi.  These are the corporate Welfare Queens who’ve already sucked up over a third of a trillion dollars in aid from the US Treasury and Federal Reserve.  Not coincidentally, Citi, the big winner, has paid over $100 million to Robert Rubin, the former US Treasury Secretary.  Rubin was Obama’s point-man in winning banks’ endorsement and campaign donations (by far, his largest source of his corporate funding).

    With GM’s last dying dimes about to fall into one pocket, and the Obama Treasury in his other pocket, Morgan’s Jamie Dimon is correct in saying that the last twelve months will prove to be the bank’s “finest year ever.”

    Which leaves us to ask the question:  is the forced bankruptcy of GM, the elimination of tens of thousands of jobs, just a collection action for favored financiers?

    And it’s been a good year for Señor Rattner. While the Obama Administration made a big deal out of Rattner’s youth spent working for the Steelworkers Union, they tried to sweep under the chassis that Rattner was one of the privileged, select group of investors in Cerberus Capital, the owners of Chrysler.  “Owning” is a loose term.  Cerberus “owned” Chrysler the way a cannibal “hosts” you for dinner. Cerberus paid nothing for Chrysler – indeed, they were paid billions by Germany’s Daimler Corporation to haul it away.  Cerberus kept the cash, then dumped Chrysler’s bankrupt corpse on the US taxpayer.

    (”Cerberus,” by the way, named itself after the Roman’s mythical three-headed dog guarding the gates Hell.  Subtle these guys are not.)

    While Stevie the Rat sold his interest in the Dog from Hell when he became Car Czar, he never relinquished his post at the shop of vultures called Quadrangle Hedge Fund. Rattner’s personal net worth stands at roughly half a billion dollars.  This is Obama’s working class hero.

    If you ran a business and played fast and loose with your workers’ funds, you could land in prison. Stevie the Rat’s plan is nothing less than Grand Theft Auto Pension.

    It doesn’t make it any less of a crime if the President drives the getaway car.

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    78 Responses to “Grand Theft Auto: How Stevie the Rat bankrupted GM”

    1. princeofponce Says:

      not to mention the 40 billion or so in credit default swaps that will now pay off.

      jmc Reply:

      …too big to fail…

      SpyderCanopus Reply:

      I forgot about that. Too big to fail… but there they go making it fail. Damn this world is f’d up right now!

      godbluff Reply:

      Is it me? or is everyone who reads this story so furious that you could …. I am not a UAW worker but if I were these f---ers they would rue the day they took my money. PLEASE SOMEONE COMPUTER SAVVY POST A LIST OF THESE SCUMBAGS. ALL OF THEM. there will be someone to pick it up.

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    2. redwhiteandblue Says:

      as an ex uaw member this is extremely disapointing. off topic for a bit when i was a laborer the union had enough trouble bargening with the company i worked for, now they are bargening with the fedrel government. good luck gettin anything done contract-wise.
      on this topic the rat should be exterminated with the rest of the obama nazi brigade. this is a clear violation of my and all american rights.

      praise the lord and pass the ammunition

    3. uhhhh.... Says:

      All praise Obama! sig heil! sig heil!

    4. a my wits end Says:

      All GM workers should take their shoddy steering cars and suv’s and have an accidental crash into the bodies or homes of thESE criminals. The only justice left in this country is the justice we take in our own HANDS.

      I'MReady Reply:

      i agree 1000%, its time we show them we are no ones puppet! why isnt there a list of all the rats and thiefs out threre? you could call it a “hit” or “christmas” list. its time we show them that they need to change there ways, OR WE WILL CHANGE IT FOR THEM. how hard could it be to find a simple address and have a nice talk face to face? you steal from me and starve my family, i will hunt you down and prosicute you in my court of law, MY FRIENDS ITS TIME WE DO SOMETHING, NOT JUST STAND AND SAY SOMETHING COUSE APPERANTLY THAT DOESNT WORK, BUT STAND AND START MARCHING TO THEIR DOOR STEPS. ITS TIME AND I’MREADY!!

      RJM Reply:

      Here’s an idea…Here’s a way to revolt AMERICA without having to be violent, BUT You don’t like whose in the Judicial, Executive, and legislative branches of government, then stop supporting them. IT can only work if we can get EVERYONE in AMERICA to do it in or around the same time period, if we CAN do it in Massive numbers, theres nothing the Government can do…STOP PAYING TAXES, when TAX season comes around at the beginning of 2010, figure out if you owe or if you get money back, if you owe, THEN DON’T FILE, if you get money back, THEN FILE. We need to get all Unions to NOT pay the collected taxes of the workers to the Gov’t. Need to get as many companies and corporations to stop sending the collected taxes of it’s employees to the Gov’t.

      Truthster Reply:

      We all have to first realize that “income” is NOT money!! That’s been the well kept secret.
      In a nutshell, unless you work for the Global Crime Syndicate – oops, I mean the gov’t. – your private sector earnings CANNOT be taxed as “income”. The truth will set you free @
      http://www.losthorizons.com …. be free!!

      TakerOfCorporateSouls Reply:

      all of these paper pushers working on top of ivory towers and living in multimillion dollar mansions…..the military and homeland security is there to protect their ill gotten gains and money piles…..to the envy of every mafia don who has ever lived…..the only problem is that they only know how to steal and plunder, not how to use a gun or hand-to-hand combat…..they have all of America hostage and in fear, almost like the first time confronted by the schoolyard bully……but the first time you swing back at the bully and connect, you receive new found respect……America’s Citizens are quaking in their boots like shaggy from scooby-doo…..until the sheople wake up and solve the mystery for themselves and make a stand against the Wall-street and District of Criminals and International bankers and military industrial complex, we will be enslaved and chipped and drugged and zombified…wake up America, paper-pushers run from the fight, let alone guns and bullets….time to get hectic and get back what is “OURS”….time to chase the commie pinko’s into oblivion….stand up to the bullys on the local/state/federal levels and “we the people” will receive our new found respect, and get back what has been taken from us………..

      oswald420 Reply:

      dont be a violent retard

      TechiePatriot Reply:

      No, lets go ROB the thieves. Post names and addresses of ALL the banker crooks. If it’s “ok” for them to steal our money, our property – then I’m sorry it’s “ok” for us to rob them too. The ONLY thing they understand is $$$$$$$$$$$$. The more of it you take away from them to more you will get them to listen. The other thing is by posting names/addresses all over the web – it will allow people to exercise their RIGHT to make Citizen Arrests! You want to “Arrest the bankers” – this is the ONLY way it will get done – if WE THE PEOPLE do it!

      Highlanderess Reply:

      Good idea Techie. Good idea. Why do we hide behind our keyboards and say s--- and do nothing?
      I’m ready for all out revolution against the tyranny.

      Highlanderess Reply:

      Sounds good to me.

      DRILLER1776 Reply:

      rabble, rabble, rabble

    5. Griz Says:

      How shocking! [YAWN!] Our elected officials and their appointees deciding that their friends, ex-employers or corporate interests “too big to fail” are more important than following some dusty old law. Or a little thing called justice. Change the law? No way, we’ll just pretend it doesn’t exist, after all, who’d DARE to prosecute us! THIS TYPE OF ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UNILATERAL ACTION MUST CEASE!

    6. JohnK Says:

      How is it that this criminal operation, err, Administration is allowed to skirt the laws they are sworn to uphold and defend? Could it be that the American people are now as dumb as dirt? Perhaps an all-out revolt from the shafted UAW workers will push this story into the brain-washed minds of the American people. But then, with the MSM in the pockets of the same crime syndicate that owns the Obama Administration, I wouldn’t hold my breathe.

      de obvious Reply:

      Dumber, possibly.

      The real keystone to this is the fact that most of our soundly sleeping, braindead bretheren are not hearing one iota of this in the MSM (Kieran Chetry is hot, but I don’t hear a thing she says). I’m no fan of the unions, but I’d support them in their revolt on this.

      Dumb Down Reply:

      The dumbing down of America is almost complete.
      The sheeple are only interested in, who won American Idol, type crap.
      The average American are now, simple minded morons.

    7. Dr. Evil Says:

      These people must all be killed!

      hipo Reply:

      Alex I can`t get my media players or winamp to work with out geting knocked off line
      even from fresh format and install the problem is the other side of the wall
      ISP, hacker, don`t know what but I do know why.
      Batteling away back late M8

      hipo Reply:

      Ha ha I`m still here looks like the Malay mullers have patented the name of the nameless
      One.
      So any way I got back @ 12:02 what time is it now.

    8. junglelord Says:

      Lets face it, its a massive scheme to bankrupt american.
      Alex Jones calls it 100%

    9. MIKEY1966 Says:

      Help me out on this question , I keep hearing that state pension funds are soon to be out of money as more people retire from State service , What is happening to this money if the states are not raiding it , Im from Michigan and our state govt raids every fund it can get its hands on,could there be a hidden loophole so they can get away with this ,We passed a law in Michigan to prevent the state from raiding D.N.R. funds only to find out after that there was a hidden loophole and the DNR still raise fees

    10. Unite! Says:

      They are determined but so are we!

      http://www.warnthepeople.org/t.....ounds.html

    11. Breathing Easy Says:

      Yes, it is pure theft, and the banksters, the NWO and the corporate Globalists did it a little over 15 years. If this were a baseball game, it would be a total whitewash.
      Please note, that not single Congressman or Senator stood up to fight for the average American, to at least speak up and say this action is illegal, and goes against all principles of fair play. The shareholders and bondholders, many thousands of retirees, pension funds and 401k lost 27 billion.
      Not only Obama and his crew but the entire group of corrupt and cowardly Reps. and Sens allowed it to happen. They are totally owned by the banksters and wall street thugs.
      So what will everyone do about it? Other than sit in your little cubicles and wait for your job and livliehood to be stolen from you?

    12. klc Says:

      I like the title of this article….”grand theft auto” ….it’s befitting.

      “workers are losing, …shareholders are getting zilch, …bankers get $6B –yes indeed its GRAND THEFT AUTO! I do hope the auto workers REVOLT! Shake things up a bit….

    13. de obvious Says:

      Screw the stock (and the GOV!) – either give me my portion of the 50bn back, since I never agreed to MY money being used for this, or provide me a brand new GM car every year until my portion of the 50bn has been used up. Should keep me in new cars for at least a decade.

      Oh, and I’ll value my cars at cost, thank you. If this is my “toxic asset”, then I choose to value it as low as possible so as not to negatively impact my bottom line. If it is good enough for the banking mafia, it’s damn sure good enough for me.

    14. No NWO Says:

      The bulls--- has to stop. We all need to do something about all the s--- thats going on

    15. redwhiteandblue Says:

      think its time some of these corrupt politicians get layed off

    16. Shadow Dancer Says:

      I call my vehicle my symbolic horse. All I know is when I leave your world I won’t need a car anymore. Already sounds like Heaven to me.

    17. whitemale08 Says:

      DAMN THESE POLITICIANS….

      AT WHAT POINT ARE WE GOING TO RISE UP AS A PEOPLE AND TAKE THIS NATION BACK FROM THESE CROOKS!

      COME ON…WE CAN DO BETTER THEN THESE CLOWNS ON WALL STREET AND IN WASHINGTON.

      lubbockboy Reply:

      I think that the American people are so apathetic that they won’t rise up, they will just allow this crap to keep on happening, Whitemale.

      Breathing Easy Reply:

      Maybe have a nationwide strike, don’t go to work, do not pay any bills, do not spend any money in any store or anywhere else and don’t start doing anything until your elected reps in Washington come back home and explain their actions in a free question and answer town forum, no set “pre-test” questions, whoever wants to ask a question can ask, make them stand there and answer for their incomptence for a 36-48 hours straight, lol maybe they will GET THE POINT THEN>

      Breathng Easy Reply:

      http://www.marketwatch.com/sto.....id=yahoomy

      unitarian Reply:

      Nationwide strike, great idea! The problem is that to pull off something like this you need an organized labor movement which exists in this country in name only. The unions over the last 30 to 40 years have become corrupt to the point that they no longer serve the purpose of being a check on the power of the elites. That needs to change, we need a NEW organized labor movement in this country, just like we need new political parties that break out of the old left right way of thinking. If the old unions are corrupt and controled by sell outs then it is time to start new ones and build the infrastructure needed to stand up to the globalists and what they have in store for us like elimination of our jobs, depressed wages, loss of health care, longer hours, raiding our pension funds, lower safety standards etc. etc.. The best tool to combat this is a labor movement like this country had in the 1920’s and 30’s that was willing to strike and stage sit ins, to stand up to the bosses not sell out. If you want a national strike then start a Union!

      Unconquered Reply:

      … and you are….?

    18. newhere Says:

      I think maybe America is too stupid to be waken/woken up. I got this from MSN as posted by a regular ol’ American. (username) hemmie
      6/2/2009
      8:02 AM (report inappropriate content)

      anyone who bought a foriegn car,, especcially a car from japan or asia,is the blame for the demise of detroit and nascar,etc…we fight and die for the stars and stripes not the rising son etc..if everyone would go out and by a car from the big three.the auto problem would be ceased and gone!!!!!!!!!!!! the ones who bought a foriegn car,shame on you!!!!!!!!! if you think of buying an a car, buy american!1 i did i bought a chrylser 300 hemi c!!!!!!!!!!!in my eyes our boys didnt die in past wars for nothing and our boys today are not dying or lossing their limbs in vain..i put my money where my mouth is..now it’s your turn america.do the same!!!!!!!!!1 when july 4th comes around and we celebrate our nation’s independence,salute the american flag!!!!!!!!!! if your going anywhere driver in a car from detroit not asia or europe!!!! stars and stripes forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a true american!!!

      NoName Reply:

      there is soooooo much wrong with that illiterate paragraph…

      Asian Cars > american Cars
      Nascar = Boring
      Chrysler 300 = Gas Hog/Slow

      and last but not least the good men and women of the U.S. millitary have and will always be used to fight sensless wars…

      “War doesn’t determine who is right or wrong, but who is left…”

      jason Reply:

      Yup, people bitching about the american economy and are driving foreign, are definitly factor in this. ALthough the leaders would of eventually screwed us, at least it wouldnt of been at our own hands. Unfortunatly thats not the case. “oh its soo much more reliable”> oh your job is much more reliable now, and the american economy is soo much more reliable now :P . Sell out our economy to support another country – TALK ABOUT PRIDE! Love how i see toyottas and hondas with thier american flags stuck on it – thinking the sticker is supporting america. That stick was made in china and your cars profits are going to japan, korea, china, mexico ect – KEEP THE MONEY IN AMERICA.

      Only car i will ever own is american. I will never buy a new car again. I would rather own 50 year old pos and have pride then driving a brand new beamer. ITS CALLED PRIDE!

    19. Jeff in Fl Says:

      I wonder if Bloomberg or CNBC or MS-NBC will pick up on this? Perhaps someone should call or e-mail Jim Cramer or Larry Kudlow to get their take on all of this. Just a thought.

    20. Rush to War Says:

      I have seen prices jusmp 100% in the last 4 years and all the while they GM and Chrysler have been hoarding car all over Illinois. Biggest scam since peak oil.

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    22. Ozie Mitchell III Says:

      Rather than just complaining, why isn’t someone going to court to get an injunction against these illegal acts. If the courts can’t stop this, then we all are at risk.

      Unconquered Reply:

      If institutional investor like Oppenheimer can be forced to back down on the Chrysler debacle because Rahm “Dr. Eeeevil” Emmanuel could imply that he’ll release the hounds on them in the form of the press corp, that is very chilling.

      Breathng Easy Reply:

      sorry posted in the wrong area. But there is a “special code” they are using in the bankruptcy.

      http://www.marketwatch.com/sto.....id=yahoomy

    23. Mr.Geltschmidt Says:

      Oh well if you lose weight then you will like the new GM cars set to roll out but if you keep the weight that you are right now oh well it’s your lose you will not fit into the new cars Obama can set you up with a new Health care system mandatory weight lose center for the over weight Americans of course it will not be free you can attend before you go to work you will have to show your work boss the slip that you attended your weight lose class before you can enter the work site ie office … Aleichem shalom

    24. An European Voize Says:

      Rattkateering

    25. David Says:

      Gee, another greedy Jew figures a way to steal money from others. Our Dictator Obama and his thugs feel they are above the law and can do anything they like. If you voted for this SOB, you are getting exactly what you deserve.

    26. SomeGuy Says:

      So, now that the feds own a huge amount of GM stock, what’s to stop them from pulling the same trick with federal pension funds? When it comes time to retire, we’ll all be paying for our depends and denture cream using GM stock?

      Breathing Easy Reply:

      There is nothing to to stop them from taking anything or any company now. The government just stole the oldest and largest manufacturing icon in the USA. If they set their sights on any company it is history.
      If I was Ford I would be scared to death, if I was GE I would be scared to death, and on and on.

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    29. Breathing Easy Says:

      There is nothing to stop them from taking any company in the USA. Any company they set their sights on is history. They just stole the oldest and lagest manufacturing icon in America without a wimper. They stole 27 billion in private wealth from Americans. That will translate conservatively into over 216 biillion dollars in economic impact out of consumers hands and into the hands of the government.
      If I was Ford I would be scared to death. If I was GE I would be scared to death. And on and on.

    30. Highlanderess Says:

      This not only affects GM workers, it affects the suppliers and the ma and pa businesses. It just trickles down. This is devasting to our economy. To hell with Nobama and rest of the NWO scumbags!

    31. ImpeachObama Says:

      Impeach Obama for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. After all, everything about him smell communist!

      Communists are STILL enemies of the state.

      hipo Reply:

      Hang on he only just got there and there ain`t been a NY 911 rememberance thing yet.
      911 was an inside job!.

    32. false flag watcher Says:

      I guess we won’t be getting anything back from the bailout funds we “lent” them. Where did that money go again?

    33. The Glorified Janitor Says:

      Chevy builds it’s new in engines in China to avoid using US steel and American workers. And Americans have to subsidize that policy with tens of Billions in new taxes?

      U-B-U-N-I-B-I Reply:

      Isn’t that great!? My ears are still ringing from the phrase I heard about ten years ago saying ” the global train has already left the station, no turning it around now” Funny though i don’t remember booking passage on that train.

      NoName Reply:

      I slept-in to purposely miss that train… I’ll just drive the opposite direction and hope for the best…

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    35. NWO Inc Says:

      It appears there is some of you folks are upset about GM, now Government Motors selling out. Well you folks are going to have to get use to it. You see we here at NWO central have decided long ago we are the masters not you or this constitution, We the People crap. Now, you will fork over your 401ks, IRAs, your pensions and any savings you may have for we are going to take them whether you like it or not. Like Obama said We are Change and things are a changing, have a great day from your friendly NWO group because we are getting richer by the minute.

    36. Breathing Easy Says:

      News just in: GM has sold it’s Hummer division to a Chinese company!! Should work in nicely with the minority interest China just purchased in the Cleveland Cavaliers last week.

      http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06.....mp;emc=rss

      The Glorified Janitor Reply:

      I guess when they said they were going to sell are manufactuing base to china they were not kidding! Didn’t Obama say he was going to re-negotiate are bad trade policys to help working people?

      Remember when they said they were going to build the Freedom Tower? Bush and Obamas benifactors in the PRC made them change the name to World One Tower.

      They must be figuring out a way to get Chinese Labor to build it. Americans don’t need to work they get bail out money to subsidize unemployment benefits.

      I guess all the wall street guys don’t mind that China is arming Iran at the same time,after all thier making money!

    37. stampstee Says:

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    38. thinkingman Says:

      How do you like America now you sleeping American sheeple? The downhill slide started June 1st and we are all in for a long ride (The end of it is a bumpy one). So if you have not started stocking up on canned goods and dried goods NOW then you will starve later. Welcome to the United Fascist States of America.

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    40. Wakened.lamb Says:

      Just more proof that they just follow the law when it suits them.

    41. The Glorified Janitor Says:

      The Chairman of the Communist party has decreed the American tax payers will have to pay more for them to take our manufacturing base off our hands for us. More bailouts coming soon!

    42. American Patriot Says:

      I hope you all watched Lou Dobbs on CNN interview the CFO of GM.
      When cornerd about massive outsourcing while taking 50 Billion from taxpayers, this guy quoted NAFTA of all things and pretty much used NAFTA as their right to get rid of American workers for cheap Mexican slave labor.

      He refused to acknowledge their outsourcing and the plants they moved to Mexico and other countries. This is your typical scumbag Executive that will lie on national Television and lie to the American people.

      Boycot GM dont buy a vehicle from them. Anyone who will set and lie and refuse to answer questions should be boycotted.

      I would like to have 5 minutes alone with this guy, just five minutes.

      What a loser scumbag.

      It will be years before I ever buy another new car, as long as they are made in another country and are outsourcing jobs.

      THEY CAN KISS MY RED WHITE AND BLUE AMERICAN ASS.

      GM, YOUR BOYCOTTED IN MY FAMILY

    43. jonathan Says:

      america is not america no more its called united states nazi camp usnc

    44. SHiFT Says:

      that guy, Steeve Rattner, really reminds me the main character from “Thank you for Smoking” movie.

      http://www.imdb.com/media/rm647139840/tt0427944

    45. saywhat Says:

      Just read in the Mexico news that GM do not have plans for closing down any of their plant operations there. So the USA invested 70 billion dls. to maintain afloat the company in the USA, but the ones afloat are overseas. GMAC, the financial side of the GM, is heavily invested in housing proyects in Mexico which, for the lack of fresh investments, are now in deep trouble.
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      Don’t you just love these corporates? I wonder how much money they gave on campain contributions in order to get a loan (well bad loan for the tax payers) from the Gov. I dod not know that the Gov was in business to lend money to a selected few corporations wiout a strickt oversight or financial plan… well it is not their money anyways, so have at it…

    46. Baby Snakes Says:

      Nice to see a Greg Palast story posted on infowars. Greg is a true American freedom fighter. He does incredible work exposing corprate greed, fema, bankers and NWO scum. He may be a bit of a leftist and a greenie but I’m not going to hold that against him.

      Onwards and upwards folks!