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   motivemagus said, about 1 year ago

   Zing!! But which is which?

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   Suetonius said, about 1 year ago

   Maybe together they will both stay afloat?

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   Corosive Frog said, about 1 year ago

   Sink…Like a rock!

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   DHLEAKY said, about 1 year ago

   Their overseas divisions are making moola. You do not suspect that the US profits are siphoned off so they can play the “poor me” bail me out game to get rid of the employees pensions, etc, and stick US for the bill? Also to keep from having to make the cars they were, by law, to be making in the 80s?

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   Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

   DHLEAKY: Make sure to wear your tinfoil hat, now, okay?

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   Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

   Oddly enough, the “Hindenburg” disaster - like another recent disaster {aside from Iraq} - may be laid to a great extent at the feet of the US (and British) government - the eason that the “Hindenburg” was filled with hydrogen was that the US (at least partly at Britain’s urging) had refused to allow the Germans to purchase helium.

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   motivemagus said, about 1 year ago

   fpf - true, but incomplete. The Germans used zeppelins to bomb London (badly, it must be admitted) back in WWI - it was still considered a significant military weapon. For most of WWI, zeps could go higher than any plane built, and they made great observational platforms. Furthermore, we didn’t really have all that much helium of our own. Refusing helium to the obviously militaristic Nazi government could be considered strategic from a military perspective. Deregulating the finance industry can’t.

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   paullkellysr said, about 1 year ago

   So, us refusing to sell helium is the cause of the disaster - That’s good projection. Why not blame the people that insisted to fly even though it was hazardous?

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   lalas said, about 1 year ago

   FPF – I’m with Leaky on this one.
   Here in MPLS, Northworst airlines moved money from the airline as it became profitable again to another entity so they could cut wages (ad infinitum). It’s a well-worn dodge.

   Plus GM sloughed off their pension system to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp in ‘05. I remember being livid back then. They couldn’t smell which way the wind was blowing, so taxpayers had to take on their pension obligations.

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    lalas said, about 1 year ago

    LOL! Good one Stew! HA!

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    Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

    motivemagus says:

    fpf - true, but incomplete. The Germans used zeppelins to bomb London (badly, it must be admitted) back in WWI - it was still considered a significant military weapon.
     
    Well, sure - but the US was supposedly “neutral” at the time, and, of course, the war hadn’t even started when that policy was put into effect.

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    scuzzimoi said, about 1 year ago

    You forgot the iceberg and lightning bolt.