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Common Reasons For Nationalization In The United States

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The taxpayers were paying 60% of the company and the government barely had any kind of control on it. Another big issue that surfaced was favoritism, as the president helped fund General Motors and Chrysler. As a free market works, there are companies that are successful and some that are not successful, and while the government help funded General Motors and Chrysler, the competition was watching, and they saw it as “2 of the big 3 auto companies are in dire need and the president will run to help them but not my company…” To other people, it made the workers think that they could get support from the government if their business is failing, putting a bad impression on the government. It also looks like the president wanted to take all the …show more content…

Common reasons for nationalism include prevention of unfair exploitation and large-scale labor layoffs, fair distribution of income from national resources, and to keep means of generating wealth in public control”, found in BD articles. “Nationalization can apply to industrial losers,” stated by Alan Blinder. When the government takes over a company, it is most common to happen when it is in great succession but does also take over companies that are in dire need of help. When the government takes over a business, it provides a compensation to the owners of the business. During the Mexican nationalization of the petroleum industry in 1938, the United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull expressed that compensation should be “prompt, effective, and adequate.” The view that the Western side of the country explains that according to the view, the nationalizing state is obligated under international law to pay the deprived party the full value of the property taken.” Those that oppose compensation for nationalized are heard from other countries. They believe that it should be …show more content…

The loan given to General Motors and Chrysler was enough to give them time to convince the next president (Obama) to continue funding them. President Obama used taxpayer money to own a part of General Motors and Chrysler. There were problems whether Obama did or did not fund them because if Obama did fund General Motors, then he would have to also manage the American citizens that are upset with using their taxpayer’s dollars to pay for General Motors/Chrysler and he would be going against the rule of law, because although legislation provided the funding for the General Motors auto bailout, the bill died in Senate due to the lack of

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