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Old 10-22-10, 03:07 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen View Post
Here's where I'm going to disagree with you. The New Left is definetly far-left. General Motors, for example, has paid back the government loans, but the Treasury Department still continues to hold on it's majority ownership of the corporation, making it very clear that a 'power grab' was the real reason behind the bailout, and that the 'too big to fail' argument was simply a means to that end. Such nationalization of the automotive industry would have been unthinkable 50 years ago.

In that case, Klavan is correct. Where he is incorrect is the assertion that the right represents centrist America.

It was not only a power grab but the union is in the hip pocket.
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