Toyota seeks bailout from Japanese government.

[Dinner]

So US automakers get government backed loans and DanS screams BAILOUT! But if Japanese automakers get government backed loans it isn't a bailout? Nice logic there.

Sure, the initial sums are smaller but we'll have to see what the ultimate amounts really are.

[DanS]

You didn't address my rationale behind the distinction, which, by the way, has nothing to do with magnitude.

[Q Classic]

So US automakers get government backed loans and DanS screams BAILOUT! But if Japanese automakers get government backed loans it isn't a bailout? Nice logic there.

Sure, the initial sums are smaller but we'll have to see what the ultimate amounts really are.

Eh, that sort of thing is expected for the East Asian economies, though. They're pseudo-capitalist that way.

[Dinner]

They're not entirely capitalist; they're sensible enough to protect their own national industries which increasingly the US is to dumb to do. Managed competition or national capitalism are the terms I've heard used.

[Q Classic]

Oerdin, that's what "pseudo-capitalist" meant...

"pseudo", as I'm sure you know, meaning "false"...

[Jon Miller]

The capitalists realize the economy is a sinking ship and are trying to get as much wealth out of the population as they can.

JM

[Dinner]

I was agree with you.

[Q Classic]

Oh, Oerdin. I was just giving you a hard time.