Jeep: We’re staying in U.S., and Romney is wrong
From the Royal Oak (Mich.) Daily Tribune:
Chrysler Group LLC’s top executive said any statements by presidential candidate Mitt Romney suggesting the company was moving Jeep production from its assembly complex in Toledo, Ohio was simply not true.
“Chrysler Group’s production plans for the Jeep brand have become the focus of public debate,” Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said in a statement on Tuesday.
“I feel obliged to unambiguously restate our position: Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China,” he continued. “Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand. … It is inaccurate to suggest anything different.”
Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has begun running ads in Ohio, stating Chrysler planned to move Jeep production to China. Analysts described the ads as part of Romney’s efforts to pry the state’s pivotal 18 electoral votes from President Barack Obama.
The letter from Marchionne, published first in the Detroit News, went on to explain:
“North American production is critical to achieving our goal of selling 800,000 Jeep vehicles by 2014. In fact, U.S. production of our Jeep models has nearly tripled (it is expected to be up 185%) since 2009 in order to keep up with global demand.
We also are investing to improve and expand our entire U.S. operations, including our Jeep facilities. The numbers tell the story:
– We will invest more than $1.7 billion to develop and produce the next generation Jeep SUV, the successor of the Jeep Liberty — including $500 million directly to tool and expand our Toledo Assembly Complex and will be adding about 1,100 jobs on a second shift by 2013.
– At our Jefferson North Assembly Plant, where we build the Jeep Grand Cherokee, we have created 2,000 jobs since June 2009 and have invested more than $1.8 billion.
– In Belvidere, where we build two Jeep models, we have added two shifts since 2009 resulting in an additional 2,600 jobs.
With the increase in demand for our vehicles, especially Jeep branded vehicles, we have added more than 11,200 U.S. jobs since 2009. Plants producing Jeep branded vehicles alone have seen the number of people invested in the success of the Jeep brand grow to more than 9,300 hourly jobs from 4,700. This will increase by an additional 1,100 as the Liberty successor, which will be produced in Toledo, is introduced for global distribution in the second quarter of 2013.”
It’s hard to predict the impact of such events, especially in the media shadow of Hurricane Sandy coverage. But you would think that the Romney campaign’s blatant willingness to mislead and to frighten thousands of Americans unnecessarily about their job security at Jeep would have a serious effect on public opinion and would lead at least some voters to question his credibility on a range of other issues as well. It demonstrates a fundamental lack of respect for those to whom the truth about such matters is critically important.
– Jay Bookman
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Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
6:41 pm
Doug — “Joe I know what I get with Obama, I’m willing give Romney a shot, it won’t be to hard to top Obama thats for sure!!”
I’m going to take a wild guess here and say that you must not be very old. The older I get, the more I find that this saying is generally correct: Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.
Think about it.
H.E. Pennypacker
October 30th, 2012
6:41 pm
This is classic Karl Rove politics, attack your opponents greatest strength. Romney was challenged with working class white voters in Ohio due to the auto bailout and even after Denver was struggling to pull even. He felt more of the same was not going to work in the final days so this is a Hail Mary.
It reminds me of the tactic Rove used to great success when he saw his conflict avoiding President up against a Purple Heart winning volunteer. Before we knew it, Kerry was less honorable than a guy who made sure he was trained on a plane absent from the Vietnam theater. The results were to rally his base and confuse enough others to neutralize the weakness.
Doug
October 30th, 2012
6:42 pm
Still gotta job Taxpayer unlike a lot people in this Obama disaster!!
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
6:43 pm
Even GM had to call out Romney for his blatant lies.
They BOTH suck
October 30th, 2012
6:43 pm
Peter
What truth do you speak about?
You have yet to provide any evidence that substantiates Obam’s beliefs. Why go after Romney’s or Mormonism in general?
What exactly are you attempting to prove here today?
Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
6:44 pm
Doug — “Still gotta job Taxpayer unlike a lot people in this Obama disaster!!”
I’ll take Obama’s job creation record over Bush’s any day. It’s not great, but if you’re claiming that Obama’s economic record is disastrous, then Bush’s was an unmitigated apocalypse.
TM
October 30th, 2012
6:44 pm
Maybe his new “secretary of business” will be able to help him if he is reelected because his past economic advisers couldn’t get a job at Penn State
Jeffrey
October 30th, 2012
6:45 pm
I hope they have bookmans in Ohio.
DannyX
October 30th, 2012
6:45 pm
Doug, just about every economic indicator is showing vast improvement. Today for instance it was reported that house prices rose for the 5th straight month.
Just how fast were we supposed to recover from the Bush disaster, which was one of the biggest downturns since the depression?
Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
6:45 pm
http://500motivators.com/motivate/me/halt-hammerzeit/
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
6:45 pm
Doug,
You do realize that the Great Recession hit before Obama was elected. Nah.
By the way, how’s that Republican 2010 jobs campaign working out for you.
Fred ™
October 30th, 2012
6:46 pm
Peter
October 30th, 2012
6:40 pm
They BOTH suck…….. What the truth is not a concern of yours ?
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And pray tell, what IS the truth? You haven’t a clue. You only have your OPINION. The only ones that know the “truth’ about religion are DEAD and they ain’t talking…….
F. Sinkwich
October 30th, 2012
6:46 pm
“Doug, how and why is the president responsible for turning the economy around?”
Middle America: The economy sucks! Why doesn’t the president do something about that?
Jay: He doesn’t have to. Sucks for you. Vote for him again.
josef
October 30th, 2012
6:47 pm
Doug
While it may not be la vie en rose, it’s far from a disaster…
Doug
October 30th, 2012
6:47 pm
Joe
I’m not defending Bush look at my earlier posts. You grade a President on his 4 years in office and in my opinion Obama has been a failure!!
Doug
October 30th, 2012
6:50 pm
The unemployment rate is 7.8% thats awful period!!
Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
6:51 pm
Doug — “Joe I’m not defending Bush look at my earlier posts. You grade a President on his 4 years in office and in my opinion Obama has been a failure!!”
So you’re not defending Bush, but you support a guy who wants to go *back* to Bush’s policies and who has surrounded himself with Bush’s former advisors and assistants?
Let me help you out with an analogy. Your position is like you letting your ex-wife move back in with you, only she gets to bring her new boyfriend with her, and they make you sleep on the couch so they can have the master bedroom.
Don’t be that guy, Doug.
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
6:51 pm
The contortions and twists that people put on facts here would make a double jointed Chinese contortionist jealous.
godless heathen
October 30th, 2012
6:51 pm
But Romney goes to a political rally as a hurricane’s about to knock the Mid-Atlantic on its collective tail and nary a peep from them about it.
What do you want Romney to do? He’s not a government official. If he sat in a hotel and wringed his hands watching the Weather Channel, would you feel better?
TM
October 30th, 2012
6:51 pm
Doug – don’t worry the great recession that hit before O was elected is the reason he was elected. Remember he promised he knew all and would fix all. They believed he would lead them from the valley of upside down mortgages to the land of free homes but his plans failed. As for any recovery all one has to do his pay for groceries and gas every week and know that we are going in the wrong direction.
josef
October 30th, 2012
6:52 pm
FRED..
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, –that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
–John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
DannyX
October 30th, 2012
6:53 pm
“As for any recovery all one has to do his pay for groceries and gas every week and know that we are going in the wrong direction.”
Inflation is a problem? What country do you live in?
Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
6:53 pm
Doug — “The unemployment rate is 7.8% thats awful period!!”
We lost jobs, relative to population growth, for 75% of the months in Bush’s administration. That’s not true of Obama.
I agree that the unemployment rate is not good. But it has been — and continues to — get better. Look at Bush’s last year in office. What happened to employment? Fell off a CLIFF, brother.
I’ll take slow, steady improvement — even if it’s not as fast as I would like — instead of that cliff.
Fred ™
October 30th, 2012
6:54 pm
Doug
October 30th, 2012
6:47 pm
Joe
I’m not defending Bush look at my earlier posts. You grade a President on his 4 years in office and in my opinion Obama has been a failure!!
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And therein lies the problem. Too many people equate their insipid opinion with facts. 2+2=4 no matter WHAT your opinion on the matter is.
Opinions are like an anus. Everyone has one and they all stink. Talk radio relies on that fact to brain wash the weak minded.
Doug
October 30th, 2012
6:56 pm
Sorry Joe you sound like good guy but I can’t vote for Obama again.
TM
October 30th, 2012
6:56 pm
Danny X either you don;t have a family, or you don’t do the grocery shopping or you ride a bike
F. Sinkwich
October 30th, 2012
6:56 pm
Memo to JHM:
Bush isn’t running. O’bozo the doofus is.
Fred ™
October 30th, 2012
6:56 pm
Let me help you out with an analogy. Your position is like you letting your ex-wife move back in with you, only she gets to bring her new boyfriend with her, and they make you sleep on the couch so they can have the master bedroom.
Damn. That’s a good one. Nice job.
godless heathen
October 30th, 2012
6:57 pm
By the way, how’s that Republican 2010 jobs campaign working out for you.
About the same as the Obama administration’s laser like focus on jobs, jobs, jobs.
Fred ™
October 30th, 2012
6:58 pm
TM
October 30th, 2012
6:51 pm
Doug – don’t worry the great recession that hit before O was elected is the reason he was elected. Remember he promised he knew all and would fix all. They believed he would lead them from the valley of upside down mortgages to the land of free homes but his plans failed. As for any recovery all one has to do his pay for groceries and gas every week and know that we are going in the wrong direction.
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The FACT that you have the money to pay for your groceries and gas proves you wrong……..
godless heathen
October 30th, 2012
6:58 pm
Opinions are like an anus. Everyone has one and they all stink. Talk radio relies on that fact to brain wash the weak minded.
Fred thinks half of the country spends the day listening to talk radio like he does.
DannyX
October 30th, 2012
6:58 pm
“Danny X either you don;t have a family, or you don’t do the grocery shopping or you ride a bike”
Tell us what the inflation rate is. You have nothing but mindless hysteria.
Peter
October 30th, 2012
6:58 pm
Fred…….. I thought I would spread a few rumors…kind of like Obama is a Muslim…. you know the cycle.
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
6:59 pm
I guess this is partly on topic…
http://www.freep.com/article/20121030/BUSINESS01/121030036/1205/business01/Romney-implies-GM-used-U-S-aid-create-jobs-China
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has broadened his attack on President Barack Obama’s auto industry restructuring, implying that General Motors used the aid to hire more workers in China than in the U.S.
“Barack Obama says he saved the auto industry. But for who? Ohio or China?” says the narrator in a radio spot running in Ohio. “Under President Obama, GM cut 15,000 American jobs, but they are planning to double the number of cars built in China, which means 15,000 more jobs for China. And now comes word that Chrysler plans to start making Jeeps in, you guessed it, China.”
GM quickly defended its performance.
“We’ve clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days,” GM spokesman Greg Martin said. “No amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country.”
First, Chrysler had to set the record straight, and now GM does the same. I thought Romney was supposed to be the business leader, but it seems like he’s the business anger generator.
godless heathen
October 30th, 2012
7:00 pm
The FACT that you have the money to pay for your groceries and gas proves you wrong……..
More people on public assistance than ever before.
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:00 pm
Doug. You can vote for the War party…. or the Peace party….
The choice is yours, and no one can take it away from you..unless you show up drunk or high, and they can tell !
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:02 pm
Fred. economists predicted the mess Bush got us in would take 10 years minimum to clear up…….That would be after Obama’s second term…….
St Simons
October 30th, 2012
7:02 pm
I’m in Sales
yeah, so are the cons.
and when they can’t sell it, they pick it up & fling it
like now
Keyser Soze
October 30th, 2012
7:03 pm
An update from you all’s fav network.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/10/30/msnbc-trashes-romney-collecting-food-and-supplies-sandy-victims#ixzz2Aoy9BldZ
You stay classy Obama supporters. Stay classy.
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:04 pm
Joe Hussein Mama. ………Every President surrounds himself with advisers from both parties.makes a heck of allot of sense.
TM
October 30th, 2012
7:04 pm
Danny X HAVE YOU been shopping to feed a family of four in the past 4 year? Paid for a gallon of gas? What prices have gone down in the past 4 years?
Fred ™
October 30th, 2012
7:05 pm
Peter
October 30th, 2012
6:58 pm
Fred…….. I thought I would spread a few rumors…kind of like Obama is a Muslim…. you know the cycle.
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Actually no I don’t. Or at least I never understood it. Maybe you can explain it to me. How is is successful to rebut a lying no good asshat by being a lying no good asshat?
How can you show one what despicable behavior lying is by lying in return?
josef
October 30th, 2012
7:06 pm
If people are being laid off right and left, then why is the unemployment rate SLOWLY decreasing?
If there are more people on assistance than ever before, how does that factor with there being more people than ever before?
Yes, food and gas are getting costlier…and in both cases it is largely the result of the oil companies reaping record profits…
Blaming Obama for this is about as absurd as thinking Romney can do anything about it…
Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
7:07 pm
Doug — “Sorry Joe you sound like good guy but I can’t vote for Obama again.”
You do what you have to do, Doug, but I’m going to leave you with this.
I spent over 20 years of my adult life voting for Republicans. I even enlisted in the Army during the Reagan Administration. But I left the GOP behind in late 2003/early 2004. I’d had enough of the ‘don’t question us’ attitude from party leaders and ‘our way is the only way that works’ argument when the GOP’s economic policies clearly weren’t working. And the straw that broke the camel’s back for me was Iraq. I’d been in uniform during the first dance with Saddam Hussein, and even though I didn’t like that President Bush (the elder) stopped short of Baghdad, I respected him for doing the right thing and stopping when the Iraqi government said ‘we give.’
And when we went back into Iraq. saying ‘we know where the WMD are’ but they didn’t start falling out of warehouses and trucks within about a day, I knew we’d been lied to by President Bush (the younger).
I might go back to the GOP one day. But I don’t see it happening anytime soon. So ask yourself this: if the GOP can disillusion and run off a gun-owning disabled veteran who was raised up in the South and who comes from good hillbilly stock — then do you think it matters to them whether you stick with them or not?
I volunteered for the GOP for several years. And in the end, they just didn’t care if I stuck with them or not. All they care about it power, and the GOP leaders today will say and do anything to get and keep it.
So you go ahead and hang with them if you think it’s the right thing to do. But bear in mind that I spent many years supporting them, volunteering for them and voting for them — but in the final analysis, they don’t really care what *you* as a voter want. It’s all about what *they* want.
Doug
October 30th, 2012
7:08 pm
Its decreasing because people are giving up looking for work.
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:08 pm
Fred wow don’t come UN-glued now……..the lying on this board is off the chain……..not to mention stuff like “deficits don’t matter” and “Mission Accomplished”……WMD.or Bin Laden is alive.
Heck half the stuff Romney talks about he changes his story on…..gosh if he ran against Bush…Bush would be crying flip flopper !
Fred ™
October 30th, 2012
7:09 pm
godless heathen
October 30th, 2012
7:00 pm
The FACT that you have the money to pay for your groceries and gas proves you wrong……..
More people on public assistance than ever before.
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yeah and your point is? We ALSO have more people in the US than ever before. We have had one of the worst meltdowns of our economy in history thanks to 2 unfunded wars and an unfunded drug mandate.
How many MORE people would be on public assistance if not for the few policies that Obama was able to pass before the party of no came back into power in the Congress? Your “argument” makes no sense.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
7:10 pm
F. Sinkiewicz — “Memo to JHM: Bush isn’t running. O’bozo the doofus is.”
Memo to Fishy: Romney’s announced that he’s going to resurrect some Bush policies and his campaign is fairly *dripping* with Bush appointees and advisors. So if Romney wouldn’t be Bush’s third term, get some new people and policies.
Or put on your big boy pants and deal with the criticism. Makes no nevermind to me.
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:10 pm
Doug
October 30th, 2012
7:08 pm
Its decreasing because people are giving up looking for work.
Too bad they don’t have any balls Doug… I started my business with $600 and in the late 1990s….still at it today…..maybe some of them need to create their own job ?
Fred ™
October 30th, 2012
7:10 pm
TM
October 30th, 2012
7:04 pm
Danny X HAVE YOU been shopping to feed a family of four in the past 4 year? Paid for a gallon of gas? What prices have gone down in the past 4 years?
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Really? Did you just type that? What prices in HISTORY have ever gone down? You are losing it brother. You just keep getting more and more irrational.
St Simons
October 30th, 2012
7:11 pm
“You’ve been asked 14 times, why do you refuse to answer?”
and Lord High Hairgel jumps on a plane, he runs away.
Checkmate cons.
Thanks for playing.
Host should have a 1 sockpuppet limit on Tues.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
7:12 pm
Peter — “Joe Hussein Mama. ………Every President surrounds himself with advisers from both parties.makes a heck of allot of sense.”
Dafuq?
Mitt the Twit
October 30th, 2012
7:12 pm
“Vote for me or I will outsource your job. I’m going to steal your Social Security check regardless.” ~ Mitt the Twit
TaxPayer
October 30th, 2012
7:12 pm
Republicans have created zero jobs since their 2010 jobs, jobs, jobs campaign.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
7:13 pm
Doug — “Its decreasing because people are giving up looking for work.”
That didn’t seem to be a problem for conservatives from 2001 – 2009. So why complain about it now?
TM
October 30th, 2012
7:15 pm
Actually Fred the price of natural gas has gone down if only we could continue fracking.
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:15 pm
Peter — “Joe Hussein Mama. ………Every President surrounds himself with advisers from both parties..makes a heck of allot of sense.”
You didn’t know that ?
Fred ™
October 30th, 2012
7:15 pm
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:08 pm
Fred wow don’t come UN-glued now……..the lying on this board is off the chain……..not to mention stuff like “deficits don’t matter” and “Mission Accomplished”……WMD.or Bin Laden is alive.
Heck half the stuff Romney talks about he changes his story on…..gosh if he ran against Bush…Bush would be crying flip flopper !
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you do as you wish Peter, but DON’T call me unglued because I despise liars. All liars. I’m not responsible for your honor or integrity, just mine. If you choose to be a dishonorable liar, that is your choice. We have all seen that you are by your own admission so I am NOT “calling you names.”
I really don’t want to speak to you anymore. I don’t treat with liars, as you have nothing I count rely on. I know you don’t understand but it is what it is. One day, maybe you will regret the fact that you lack honor, integrity and a code of morals. Or not.
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
7:16 pm
Fred
Ever hear of Cerberus Capital Management?
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:16 pm
TM . health issues with fracking is enormous……
But there is a company out of Canada that does it a different way …..without water, so it doesn’t pollute the ground water….hopefully that technology will take off, and we can continue.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
7:17 pm
Peter — “You didn’t know that ?”
Fractured your syntax am. Sense no make you.
Doug
October 30th, 2012
7:17 pm
Peter
I’m a 25 year old Independent contractor, and I agree that people need to step up in this country but at the same I know people that are well qualified and busting it still can’t find a job. Its tough out there no doubt.
Old timer
October 30th, 2012
7:17 pm
Maybe Italy….
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:18 pm
Fred YUP you officially came UN-glued. and sooooo easily funny stuff really.
F. Sinkwich
October 30th, 2012
7:18 pm
Oh yeah?
I voted for democrats ever since FDR ran for his first term. I stormed the Normady beaches then piloted the Enola Gay over Japan. Korea was my playground until I got drafted to fight in Nam. I won two MOH’s saving Jammie’s life multiple times. Iraq? Well that’s another story.
Because of the democrats lust for power, for the first time, I’m voting republican.
Old timer
October 30th, 2012
7:19 pm
This is not a. Decision Crysler will get to make, they are owned by a. Italian company.
Moderate Line
October 30th, 2012
7:19 pm
It’s hard to predict the impact of such events, especially in the media shadow of Hurricane Sandy coverage. But you would think that the Romney campaign’s blatant willingness to mislead and to frighten thousands of Americans unnecessarily about their job security at Jeep would have a serious effect on public opinion and would lead at least some voters to question his credibility on a range of other issues as well. It demonstrates a fundamental lack of respect for those to whom the truth about such matters is critically important.
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Fiat Says Jeep Output May Return to China as Demand Rises
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-21/fiat-says-china-may-build-all-jeep-models-as-suv-demand-climbs.html
Fred ™
October 30th, 2012
7:20 pm
Brocephus: Not until you mentioned it and I googled it. I knew who Cerberus is (as would you if you read the Percy Jackson books lol).
Now having googled it and reading the wiki on them I can say that I still really don’t know who they are or why you brought them up, but I’m sure you will elucidate.
I eagerly await your tutoring.
ODD OWL
October 30th, 2012
7:21 pm
Why do the FCC allow the television networks to broadcast Mittens Romney’s propagandist T.V. ads accusing Chrysler of shipping factories and jobs to China ??? Its a blatant lie, its distortion, its deception, its propaganda… What happen to the truth in advertising laws ???
Moderate Line
October 30th, 2012
7:22 pm
Fiat and Guangzhou’s plant in Changsha in central China has initial annual capacity of 140,000 cars and is capable of eventually assembling 500,000 vehicles per year. The automakers will add production of a new vehicle to the factory roughly every 12 months and began building the Fiat Viaggio compact there in June.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-21/fiat-says-china-may-build-all-jeep-models-as-suv-demand-climbs.html
Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
7:22 pm
F. Sinkiewicz — “Oh yeah?”
There he goes again! Fact-Free Fishy, always good for a laugh! (giggling)
Fred ™
October 30th, 2012
7:23 pm
Doug: What do you “contract?” Are you a “contractor” by choice or because the company you work for doesn’t want to pay the benefits they are supposed to by law and illegally call you a “contractor”?
Georgia
October 30th, 2012
7:23 pm
Why “Superstorm”? “Hurricane Sandy” is too many syllables for Dianne Sawyer? The media really cant help themselves. They have to trivialize everything. It’s Hurricane Sandy. “Superstorm” is being a part of the news, not reporting it. Remember what they called Hurricane Sandy before they realized their cute and brilliantly creative name was a gaffe in the face of the misery and death bearing down on the entire eastern seaboard? Yet they think we didn’t notice what a total caulk sock that writer is? Whoever coined “Frankenstorm” is fired. Whoever coined “Superstorm” is fired. It’s Hurricane Sandy.
Clean out your desks. Noon tomorrow. Sorry, your copy stinks, sirs.
Wait, now I get it, it’s like the Superbowl of Hurricanes. Oh. Of course. My bad. Nevermind.
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:24 pm
Doug. My philosophy has been…… when you are making good money save allot…when times suck and not making money stop spending.
Yes there are lots of guys not doing well…a close buddy graduated close to the top of his class at Princeton, then got his masters at GA Tech in Architecture. He has been a developer, working for a minority owned company as the token white guy.
We have had conversations about him going into a new field say alternative energy…..learning something new taking a hit on his pay scale….. But guess what he is still pursuing getting contracts and working on projects for his old boss, that may never pay him.
I hope like heck it works out for him……BUT his failure to change has become his own private Idaho.
Doug
October 30th, 2012
7:24 pm
ODD OWL both sides get away with it. Just the way it is.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
7:24 pm
O. Owl — “Why do the FCC allow the television networks to broadcast Mittens Romney’s propagandist T.V. ads accusing Chrysler of shipping factories and jobs to China ???”
TV and radio stations aren’t allowed to revise or edit political ads from candidates. They have to air them as-is.
Different rules apply to ads from PACs and interest groups.
ODD OWL
October 30th, 2012
7:25 pm
Mittens Romney is an intellectually dishonest liar… Romney’s disingenuous propagandist lies call into question, his honest, his integrity and his character…
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:26 pm
ODD OWL … I for one hope the Woman of America realize what they have to lose with Romney.
USMC
October 30th, 2012
7:26 pm
BAIN CAPITAL: We’re staying in U.S., and OBAMA is wrong!
Doug
October 30th, 2012
7:26 pm
By choice Fred. Real estate agent have survived the last 4 years because of hard work.
Fred ™
October 30th, 2012
7:28 pm
Oh lord have mercy. thanks odd owl. Like we don’t have enough mindless right wing spammers, we now have added a mindless left wing spammer………………
here’s your sign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5ZkdHImCuQ
DannyX
October 30th, 2012
7:28 pm
In the year following Obama’s inauguration, the U.S. economy lost about 4.3 million jobs. 4.5 million jobs have been added back since then, a number that would be a lot higher if so many government jobs had not been lost.
Again Doug, just how fast was the recovery supposed to fully recover after the Bush Great Recession?
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:28 pm
Peter — “You didn’t know that ?”
Fractured your syntax am. Sense no make you.
Yup. we all make mistakes… I can laugh at myself….. I cannot take myself that seriously.
USMC
October 30th, 2012
7:29 pm
“ODD OWL … I for one hope the Woman of America realize what they have to lose with Romney.”–Peter
PETER, you still have NOT answered my question. I have asked it over and over.
I guess I just won’t get an answer.
How is Mitt Romney “out of touch” with the mainstream???
Doug
October 30th, 2012
7:29 pm
And I am building my own business!!
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:29 pm
USMC….. Do you think a raped woman should have the right to Abort ?
ODD OWL
October 30th, 2012
7:30 pm
I don’t think we’ve seen the last of these “superstorms.” We’re already having 100 year storms and floods every couple of years now…
Brosephus™
October 30th, 2012
7:30 pm
Fred
Here we go. I’m always in search for the “man behind the curtain” so to speak. With the vigor that’s being shown behind this whole auto bailout/Jeep/Chrysler/Fiat issue, it seems quite possible that there’s big money somewhere pulling the strings on this one..
Per Wiki:
In 2007, Cerberus and about 100 other investors purchased an 80% stake in Chrysler for $7.4 billion[35] seeking to bolster the auto maker’s performance by operating as an independent company. In 2008, the plan collapsed due to an unprecedented slowdown in the U.S. auto industry and a lack of capital…
On March 30, 2009, it was announced that Cerberus Capital Management would voluntarily give up its equity stake in the Chrysler auto company as a condition of the U.S. Treasury Department’s bailout deal, but would retain its stake in Chrysler’s financing arm, Chrysler Financial. Cerberus agreed to provide $2 billion to backstop a $4 billion December 2008 U.S. Treasury Department loan given to Chrysler. In exchange for obtaining that loan, it promised many concessions including surrendering equity, foregoing profits, and giving up board seats. U.S. Treasury and the Obama administration recognized the “sacrifices by key stakeholders” in an effort to give Chrysler the “opportunity to thrive as a long-term viable 21st century company.”
When you look at who founded Cerberus, one of the co-founders is Steve Feinberg. A peek at his wiki page shows:
The 2007 Cerberus purchase of Chrysler Corp. from Germany’s Daimler Benz became a major and, as of 2009, unsuccessful initiative by Feinberg into a higher-profile investment. Feinberg and others at the firm explicitly presented the investment as patriotic, but many critics ultimately questioned that characterization, especially after Chrysler had to seek and take federal aid. (Chrysler now, with federal help, has been sold to Fiat.) As of 2009, Cerberus was facing major calls from its investors for redemptions, and had written down its investment in Chrysler to 19 cents on the dollar. Had there not been the federal bailout, the investment could have been worth nothing.
Without the bailout, they would have drawn a fat goose egg. But, in order to get the bailout, they had to forego profits, and you know how private equity is all about profits. Not to mention that Mr. Feinberg’s politics lean right…
Steve and Gisela Feinberg are prolific donors to the Republican Party and related organizations. Former Republican Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle works for Cerberus as Chairman of Global Investments, and former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was a client.
I’m sure there are many deep-pocketed people angry at the loss of profits from the Chrysler bailout. I’m not going to say they are behind this whole fiasco, but given how big money operates, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if they were.
USMC
October 30th, 2012
7:31 pm
Breaking News!!!!!!
Dawgs are going to Beat BAMER in the SEC CG and win the BCS National Championship Game!
Doug
October 30th, 2012
7:31 pm
Danny if you want accept mediocrity go ahead. I think Obama could have done a whole lot better just my opinion.
TM
October 30th, 2012
7:33 pm
You can;t make this up– From O “This is a tough time for a lot of people; millions of folks all across the Eastern Seaboard, but America’s tougher. And we’re tougher because we pull together, we leave nobody behind, we make sure we respond as a nation and remind ourselves that whenever an American is in need, all of stand together to make sure we’re providing the help that’s necessary.” ——-Except if your in Benghazi
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:33 pm
USMC. …….. I think Romney will take woman’s rights back 30 years…… I think he is not a job creator, since he was a pioneer in out sourcing.
I think his comments on the 47% was heartless. I think his statement about FEMA was wrong, yet he did change his mind today.
I don’t think he really cars about the poor, but his buddies in the TOP of the 1 %. and I think his comment about 2 Trillion more spending for new ships was only a campaign promise to win a state.
I can answer more of you ask.
USMC
October 30th, 2012
7:33 pm
Mitt Romney is suddenly plunging into traditionally Democratic Territory:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20121030/DA2854680.html
Look at Mittens lift those cases of Bottled Water! Get em Mittens!
USA Patriot
October 30th, 2012
7:33 pm
USMC – Finally, some levity! Go DAWGS
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:34 pm
Dawgs are going to Beat BAMER in the SEC CG and win the BCS National Championship Game!
Anything is possible…… that is why they play the game !
Doug
October 30th, 2012
7:34 pm
That Frank Dodd Bill has got to be amended. Way too much regulation hurting the real estate recovery.
F. Sinkwich
October 30th, 2012
7:34 pm
“F. Sinkiewicz — “Oh yeah?”
There he goes again! Fact-Free Fishy, always good for a laugh! (giggling) ”
As true as your crap post.
Fred ™
October 30th, 2012
7:35 pm
Doug: What a crappy job the last few years. I applaud you for your success in it during that time. Might I offer a suggestion? Tune your radio AWAY from WSB while you are riding around. Research things a little more.
To use JHM’s analogy, DON’T let your ex wife and her free loading new boyfriend send you to the couch in your own house. Free your mind and become an independent. Vote for this guy: Gary Johnson.
Make a DIFFERENCE this election. A republican vote or a Democratic vote here in Georgia is wasted. Romeny sweeps the state hands down. Make a difference though by trying to get a REAL third party to the 5 % margin where they can compete.
http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/front
Peter
October 30th, 2012
7:36 pm
And I am building my own business!!
Fantastic Doug.. and I will say the old adage is this…….. ” the harder I work.the luckier I get ! “
Joe Hussein Mama
October 30th, 2012
7:36 pm
F. Sinkiewicz — “As true as your crap post.”
Sorry, Punkin. Every word was true. And no matter how much you dislike it and want to rage about it, it’s still true.