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What's Wrong With Bankruptcy?

By The Daily Dish
Nov 13 2008, 1:56 AM ET

Manzi, as so often, cuts to the chase:

A bailout of GM would be a pure exercise of political power to deliver taxpayer funds to one organized group of citizens at the expense of the country as a whole. It should be avoided.

Rewarding failure is the central characteristic of the Bush administration. Obama pledged to be the un-Bush. Don't do it!



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