cmann250 wrote:They were involved in a butt load of things, apparent and not. They say the writing on the wall, as I like to think.
If you think for ONE minute that Chrysler and GM didn't know what was going to happen, hell ALL corporate business, you're just fooling yourself. Ford had a wicked amount of reserves and assets and likely used the bailout as opportunity to unload those assets and avoid needing the bailout.
Don't think it was a brilliant marketing ploy in the grand scheme of things? Think again!
What plays better?: "We got a bailout" or "After much sell off of assets and/or restructuring, we avoided a bailout".
Nothing WRONG with being able to stave it off, but I feel they knew what was possibly coming and played the system to accomplish their goal, likely not criminal and actually quite brilliant, since one way to cut taxes is to prove expenditures and to prove expenditures you prove that you buy things, higher overhead generally means more spent, which means tax breaks.
If you can prove you LOST money by selling things off, even better.
In the end the aim is to come out as close to even as when you started.
It's like the continuing attempt to deprive us of our 2nd amendment, they (anti-gun and government officials) know how and when to make it happen and they know they can't outright do it without a revolt, so they are taking it a little bit at a time.
Oh, we will have a sort of "revolt", but it's not likely to be those who are conservative who will light that fire.
It'll be the freeloaders who have been denied their livelihood during and after the impending econo-social collapse on the horizon.
cmann250 wrote:...Bidness be slow at the Palmyra Playhouse, eh?
Da' Hoes! Dey beez on stryke!
Deys all wan' new Ferds an' dey won' shh-o 2 do de hoe-in' !
Damn, I suck at pimp-daddying ebonics.
Mark.
