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   Message 27,117 of 28,556   
   Roy to HLS   
   Re: Are full-size trucks bought for util   
   11 Nov 08 17:24:11   
   
   XPost: alt.autos.dodge.trucks, alt.trucks.ford, alt.trucks.chevy   
   From: Roy@home.net   
      
   "HLS"  wrote in message   
   news:ormSk.4735$hc1.2726@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com...   
   >   
   > "Rowbotth"  wrote in message news:rowbotth-   
   >> The point being that they are paying for the stuff.  You are not being   
   >> asked to finance their vice; they get to pay more for vehicle   
   >> registration, tires and a new vehicle when they put down the dollars to   
   >> buy the thing.   
   >   
   >   
   > Actually, we ARE being asked to pay for their stuff, via the bailouts and   
   > government   
   > grants in the billions that Ford and GM have already obtained.. And GM had   
   > the   
   > cojones to ask for $12 billion more...um, that would be $60 from every   
   > man,   
   > woman and fetus in the USA.   
      
   Well , if they were not bailed out we'd be paying it in unemployemment   
   welfare as well as lose of tax's. Figure over 1 1/2 Million jobs if GM goes   
   down the tubes. Granted only a few hundred thou. work for GM but the related   
   workforce........   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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