Bush Aids Detroit, but Hard Choices Wait for Obama

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/business/20auto.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:14 PM
Subject: Bush Aids Detroit, but Hard Choices Wait for Obama
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   While it may amuse president Bush to trap president-elect Obama in a promise to Detroit, the bailout of the automakers is problematic. Most glaringly, the power of the purse belongs to Congress, not to the Executive. The president has no more power to bail out the automakers than he has to make war a foreign country. Oh, never mind.

Barry Levine