Flint Expatriates: Settling Scores

Friday, December 12, 2008

Settling Scores

Care to take a peek at the Senate Republicans' internal strategy memo? It seems dealing a blow to organized labor was a bigger concern than dealing with the economic crisis when it came to loaning money to the Big Three.

3 comments:

Rich FrostDecember 13, 2008 at 9:22 AM
And on Thursday night -- Senator John McCain was a guest on David Letterman's show and I noticed that he followed those talking points right to the letter when talking to Dave about the auto industry. Now that's what I call being a maverick! But then again -- it was his campaign that pulled out of Michigan -- we should have expected "the Maverick" to tell Detroit's autoworkers to go to hell.
ReplyDelete
Replies
philDecember 13, 2008 at 5:08 PM
This is a new civil war, only it's economic warfare this time. What those fools don't realize is that a GM collapse would pull down suppliers of the foreign car factories in their home states. This is insane brinksmanship. We're talking about loan guarantees amounting to a month and a half of the cost of occupying Iraq.
ReplyDelete
Replies
AnonymousDecember 13, 2008 at 5:19 PM
That is perfect. We always knew that was exactly what the republicans were up to but some written proof is always nice. Do you suppose they would be interested in slashing their pay next week - because the Japanesse gov't gets paid less.
I know you're not a big fan but Mitch Albom's column today will get you fired up.
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

Thanks for commenting. I moderate comments, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You might enjoy my book about Flint called "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City," a Michigan Notable Book for 2014 and a finalist for the 33rd Annual Northern California Book Award for Creative NonFiction. Filmmaker Michael Moore described Teardown as "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city." More information about Teardown is available at www.teardownbook.com.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

DMCA Notice

Flintexpats.com respects the intellectual property of others.

If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement and is accessible on this site, you may notify our copyright agent, as set forth in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA). For your complaint to be valid under the DMCA, you must provide the following information when providing notice of the claimed copyright infringement:

* A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed

* Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of the infringing activity and that is to be removed

* Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address

* A statement that the complaining party "in good faith believes that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or law"

* A statement that the "information in the notification is accurate", and "under penalty of perjury, the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed"

The above information must be submitted as a written, faxed or emailed notification to the following Designated Agent: Attn: DMCA Office, Flintexpats.com, 418 Anderson St., San Francisco, CA 94110, gyoung@flintexpats.com.

WE CAUTION YOU THAT UNDER FEDERAL LAW, IF YOU KNOWINGLY MISREPRESENT THAT ONLINE MATERIAL IS INFRINGING, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO HEAVY CIVIL PENALTIES. THESE INCLUDE MONETARY DAMAGES, COURT COSTS, AND ATTORNEYS’ FEES INCURRED BY US, BY ANY COPYRIGHT OWNER, OR BY ANY COPYRIGHT OWNER’S LICENSEE THAT IS INJURED AS A RESULT OF OUR RELYING UPON YOUR MISREPRESENTATION. YOU MAY ALSO BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY.

This information should not be construed as legal advice, for further details on the information required for valid DMCA notifications, see 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3).