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Re:The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happ... by ippisl on Saturday August 10, 2013 @08:36AM (#6190876)
And possibly that healthcare thing, depending on how it will turn out ?
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Re:The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happ... by smithian on Saturday August 10, 2013 @08:59AM (#6190940)
And then there was the saving of the US auto industry - but, you know, nothing of note.
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Re:The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happ... by mhb on Saturday August 10, 2013 @11:37AM (#6191407)
Tesla success shows what a bad investment the GM/Chrysler bailout was:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/07/28/tesla-success-...

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Re:The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happ... by uptown on Saturday August 10, 2013 @12:26PM (#6191604)
I'm a huge fan of Tesla, but GM/Chrysler wasn't just about the vehicles. It was about the employees, the economies in that part of the country, and the ripple effect that killing off American auto-makers would have had to every industry they touched.

I truly hope what Tesla is doing becomes the future of the American auto-industry, but the nation was in no position, at that time, to facilitate that transformation in a way that was logistically, economically, or politically acceptable.

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Re:The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happ... by ajuc on Saturday August 10, 2013 @08:53AM (#6190917)
What do you know about social policies of the biggest empires from a few centuries ago?

Such stuff is lost in noise after a few centuries, only people from the country where it happened learn about it, often not even that.

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