Subsidies and corporate bailouts are a strange game where nothing seems black-and-white, but if the public is going to help fund these failing corporations then shouldn't this money be spent actually helping the public --and the environment we live in?! Our automakers already have $25 Billion at their disposal, provided they use it to make cleaner-burning, more efficient vehicles. Since that is what we consumers obviously want anyway, why not actually change with the times to meet ... More »

We have at least a dozen promising automotive start-ups in the U.S. that are more likely to succeed in developing new automotive technology than the old car companies whose bosses fly to D.C. in their private jets to beg for taxpayer handouts. Let the old companies go, support the new ones. Or -- better yet -- just send ME a few billion to invest in building a better car. I'll spend it making a modular series hybrid with wheel-mounted motors and the simplest, most efficient drive ... More »

Being prejudice, I can understand why the American worker wants a bail-out. It's hard to make a new product when almost 25% is already spent in health, pension, retirement and a host of other costs. Being a liberal, its hard to talk unions into taking some responsibility for the death-knoll of their own industry, but unless the U.S. can produce a cost productive car soon, we may all be driving Chinese cars.