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...Fundamentally, taxpayer money will be used to restructure GM in such a way that thousands of taxpayers will lose their jobs. (See pictures of Detroit's decline...
...cities will have to support workers at dealerships that close. Banking and investment firms not involved in the GM situation will have to ask themselves if their future rights could ever be undermined by a process driven by the financial might of the U.S. government. (Read "Is This Detroit's Last Winter...
...pictures of Detroit's decline...
Obama's defenders will point to the concessions the Administration forced Detroit's autoworkers to make in the arranged-bankruptcy negotiations with Chrysler. It is true that the United Auto Workers (UAW) got less than it asked for. But without Obama's billions in auto subsidies, it would have gotten far less from insolvency. The children of nonunionized American autoworkers in Kentucky and Alabama who build cars that succeed in the marketplace made the largest concessions. They will endure a larger national debt so that billions of federal dollars can be used to prop up the UAW jobs...
...thoroughly disapproves of her son John's (Ben Barnes) taste in brides. He was supposed to marry Sarah (Charlotte Riley), the girl from the next castle over, who could have restored the family to its former glory. Instead he shows up with Larita, a race-car-driving native of Detroit who doesn't want to play lawn tennis, is a fan of Lady Chatterley's Lover and demands to know the cook's name ("Cook, I can't call you by a verb...