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Old 04-22-2009, 07:00 PM   #12
ISiddiqui
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Originally Posted by path12 View Post
I just find it interesting that the outcry for the auto bailouts was so much greater than the ones for the banks -- which were exponentially larger. It seems to me that far more real jobs hinge on the auto industry than the banking industry.

Another reason is that if banks stop lending &/or failing, everything that requires the slightest bit of funding (just about everything really) goes under and it's Great Depression II at that moment.
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