Subject: [Homestead] Companies compete for bailout money
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:16:21 -0700 (PDT)
Companies start competing for bailout money
WASHINGTON – The bailout is now the hottest lobbying game in town.
Insurers, automakers and American subsidiaries of foreign banks all want the
Treasury Department to cut them a piece of the largest government rescue in
U.S. history.
The betting is that many with their hands out will be successful,