The General, Ford, and Chrysler walked into a bar…
One argument says, “They made their bed and now they should lay in it.”
The other side worries about the massive loss of jobs. Numbers so freaking huge, so far reaching, most of us couldn’t even begin to imagine the impact. (Hint: Think one out of every ten Americans.)
In the end, yes, give them their bailouts on a few minor conditions such as,
1. All management from any company receiving aid must step down and NEVER return. Their careers in the automotive world are over. I don’t care how talented they are.
2. Dissolve the Worker’s Unions (UAW, I’m speaking directly to you), completely and forever. I hold their greed, corruption, and thievery directly responsible.
In reality, the average American does wonder when we’re going to begin holding people accountable for their actions. I’m thinking right now is a pretty good time to start.
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Great idea.
Sounds good to me.
While we’re at it, every moron in Congress who insisted that Fannie and Freddie were doing just fine and didn’t need more regulation for hte last five years needs to be taken out and fed to the sharks.
Nathan, I’ll cut off the pieces, you can throw.
Amen!
Does this bailout come with a warranty? A five year bumper to bumper deal? No? I say fuckem’!!
MNTU, I wasn’t planning to cut them up first.
“MNTU, I wasn’t planning to cut them up first.”
(giggle!)
I think the tipping point was a few years ago when GM was putting $5,000 worth of steel and $5,500 in worker/retiree health benefits into the average vehicle.
As suck ass lazy and greedy as the UAW is (read Rivethead) the designers responsible for foisting off pieces of aesthetic shit like the Corsica/Beretta through the Lumina through the latest Monte Carlo/Malibu/Impala should be shot in the head. Ford/GM make good trucks. Period. They should get out of the passenger car market.
Hey now I love my Dodge Truck, just sucks everyone thinks they can beat on it and no one does a thing. Personally I think the idiot that puts dvd players and crap like that where you can see them WHILE driving needs a brain installed first.
WOndering here if it might be possible to plant a meme in the national mindspace that “too big to be allowed to fail” becomes semantically equivalent to “too big to be allowed to continue to exist.”
At least, if the “too big” includes also “too big to stand on its own two feet.”
M
Was listening to talk radio today (local, not national) and this was the topic.
Sad to say, most of the callers were socialist, and in favor of eliminating production-line layoffs (won’t help the Co. if no-one is buying product) and/or Gov’t taking a stake in the companies.
It was pretty disgusting; I turned off the radio after a few minutes of comments like that.
“So why can’t GM be allowed to go into bankruptcy?”
Good question…interesting answers.
Mark,
I’m not sure that your distinction of “too big” and “too big to stand on its own two feet” makes sense. If it’s too big to be allowed to fail, it’s too big period. How would we know it’s too big to stand on its own two feet?
If it causes too much damage if it falls on us, it’s too big, period.