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To: i-node who wrote (440130)	12/12/2008 7:39:27 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572644

Don't you like these guys, Dave? Sirius XM (SIRI) has traded under $.10 down from a 52-week high of $3.89. Reuters has reported that "Sirius XM faces some $1.1 billion in debt in 2009. Of that, about $300 million comes due in February." In the current credit environment, that probably won’t happen. There is a theory that falling car sales will undermine the sale of Sirius subscriptions. The company says that it does no better than breakeven in the first year it gets a new customer though GM. But, a shrinking subscriber based is not good news for the satellite radio company’s future. Sirius will be out of business, perhaps before mid-year. Who picks up the pieces? The logical choices are a healthy car company like Toyota or a satellite firm like DirecTV.

To: i-node who wrote (440130)	12/12/2008 7:52:10 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572644

"If you doubt this, you do not know much about the people who founded this country and drafted the Declaration and the Constitution." You'd be wrong. "Can you imagine, in your wildest dreams, Hamilton, Madison or Jay (let alone Adams or Franklin) suggesting that newspapers were "REQUIRED" to publish both sides or all sides of an issue?" Apples and pineapples, i-node. Acquiring a printing press and starting a paper was pretty easy to do in those days. There wasn't a limit on the number of presses like it is with radio channels, hence no need for a license. I know they would have had serious problems if the situation was such that there could only be a small number of presses at any one time.