While I can certainly understand the concern over how many jobs GM is offering Americans, if they didn't pour money into Europe, their reputation would be shot there after that whole Opel fiasco. After the bailout PR nightmare in the US, not sure GM can afford to also turn its back on Europe. It's about enabling GM to pay back the government, which is the ultimate goal, right?  View

isn't it a little late for bailout regulation?  View

I'm not sure why there wasn't a bonus stipulation in the government's bailout contract to begin with. Seems to me one should try to cover all their bases when giving out billions of dollars.  View

I think this would've had its intended effect if it had been done on a voluntary basis. I also feel like it should have been done before the bailout.  View

I am so pleased to have stumbled across your website! I think Obama is trying to back up and stop being the bailout nosey country that we have become. We truly see ourselves as the world police and that is crap. Also why does poland and the Czech Republic need protection against Russia? Chill out Russia. Why the hell cant everyone just accept their borders and get on with it. I am sure Russia can look at its own country and find oodles of things to improve. I am so tired of all the hostility. Why cant everyone just clean up their own backyard before nosing around as to who is doing what beyond the border. Its so predictable and boring. Anyway cheers to you for reporting the real news. Personally I have given up watching any media cause it all seems one sided and out of reality. Thanks  View

How can democrats defend this health care bill and the bailout while still saying they are upset Bush spent money he didnt have on healthcare? Enough with the double standards. More debt has been IMPOSED by this president than any other in history. I work hard for a living and I like my healthcare...I work for my own family, not anyone elses!  View

The bank bailouts, tarp 1 and 2, cap and trade, tax increases and now healthcare reform that will cost this nation a trillion dollars. ARE THEY INSANE. How much do they think we can stomach. Reform healthcare by reducing costs, eliminate waste, instead of taxing the heck out of us, instead of incurring the highest debt ever. We cannot do this to our children. FIGURE OUT ANOTHER WAY OR SAY KILL THE BILL.  View

This is a joke...no MSNBC "you" are not winning. Gay marriage should not be considered the same as man and women marriage. We are a traditional country...if you don't like it you are welcome to leave. I've had it with the media pushing this crap upon us. It's really what the media wants, not want America wants. Same with the bailouts, national health care, increased taxes, a government with entirely too much power, and of course telling the entire world how sorry we are for being the worlds true superpower.  View

ignoring demand/supply issues, the gov't has created an inflationary environment. forced to print $ to pay for the bailouts/stimuli, the value of the dollar is going to continue to erode. with oil denominated in dollars, its price is going to continue to rise. i'm a long term buyer of the commodity.  View

Of course the running of GM will become politicized, the running of every Fortune 500 is politicized. I continue to feel that the govt bailout of GM was a misguided attempt to stave off the inevitable, but I hope and expect (as a partial stockholder via my taxpaying status) that GM will emerge as a producer of a viable product, like electric and hydrogen cars.  View