As an unregistered libertarian in deep cover, you are entirely correct, the guys on the right track; clearly vp material, needing more definition of projects. is anyone ever going to get real?

I think this is a silly idea. I think the auto industry is basically using the workers' healthcare costs as a way to get more money. They get lots of profit when they sell an automobile, and now they want even more profit because they do not want to pay any healthcare costs. I think if the government gives them money (our tax dollars!) because they are having trouble paying healthcare costs, they should use it to pay healthcare costs, not develop new technology. Does that make sense? We give them money to help pay for healthcare and they spend in in developing new products to charge us more money to buy it when we already paid to develop it...and still the healthcare problem is there. Makes no sense to me.  

This notion of a carrot and stick is not bad.

But it is in reverse.  

First the stick: With these stuborn leviathan corporate mules..a 2x4 upside their head, to get their attention.  Take ALL their tax breaks and subsidies away.

Then the carrot: Give some of that loot back to individual citizens to subsidize the purchase of real green products like plugin hybrids, geothernal heat pumps for home heating/cooling, and wind and solar systems.

Barak has to realize that every democratic presidential hopefull must now be compared to Feingold, the only politician that never compromises his principles.

This corporate welfare disguised as health care for hybrids plan is a compromise of principles.

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