Comments on: Sweden approves $3.5b auto bailout package

By: Get Real

Get Real — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:58:35 +0000

Big 3 can file bankuptcy. BIg companies do it all the time, let them die and reorganize.

BUT then there will be no more UAW……and guess who votes Democrat straight tickets ???

A bailout for the Big 3 is really a UAW bailout. NOT a GM or Ford or Chrysler bailout.

By: pzimet

pzimet — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:13:42 +0000

Sometimes the Europeans really shame the U.S. government and it’s retarded complexities. Many times, in fact.

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:40:21 +0000

My Swedish bank account is 100% granted… all $10.61 of it.
What do you want me to say, it was a gift….

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:46:19 +0000

So the germans are doing it, the swedes are doing it, it’s in progress with the french and italians, and the japanese ministry of international trade and industry (MITI) is always tinkering with and helping Toyota and Nissan and to a lesser extent Honda, but if the Big 3 need it once in a blue moon then it’s “wrong.”

By: Struggle

Struggle — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:45:57 +0000

3.5 bil? Too bad it wasn’t to buy back the brands.

Maybe Ford and GM are desperate enough to take that money for those brands to go back to Sweden where they belong, and give my a desirable Saab product again.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:09:00 +0000

How much did they set aside to inject some personality back into both lines?

By: A4

A4 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:47:07 +0000

(not dont)

By: A4

A4 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:42:52 +0000

if only our government was this efficient
this is why we dont cant figure out how to sell inexpensive build it yourself furniture.

By: Borat

Borat — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:40:25 +0000

@howsmydriving, perhaps they would, if were asked. Sweden is very liberal social democratic state, they would support local C & D, but I think they choose to move to California. I think this move toward the sunny climate, may explain Feinstein and Polosi (not visually, but ideologically)

By: AnonymousCoward

AnonymousCoward — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:16:41 +0000

@howsmydriving

They needed sunshine all year round. “Hard” for the Government to provide that through bailout packages…

By: howsmydriving

howsmydriving — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:10:54 +0000

Funny, when the porno film industry shifted from Stockholm to Van Nuys, California, the Swedish government didn’t provide a bailout.