1. Bankruptcy won’t cause them to cease operations, it will allow them to get out from under debt and absurd union contracts.
2. What good does it do to prop up GM and Chrysler, if their cars just continue to pile up as unsold inventory. Unless the government wants to start buying GM cars, then throwing money at GM without first making them competitive will accomplish nothing except taking more money out of the pocket of the Americans that actually produce something.
3. If GM, Chrysler & Ford do stop making cars, the American people will still need the same number of cars next year, they will simply get them from Toyota, Honda, Hundyi, VW, BMW etc. All the transplants have excess capacity and can hire more workers and produce more cars. Those companies supplying GM can compete for the business of the profitable car companies.
4. Sell your Socialism somewhere else, we’re already well stocked up, and remember. Socialism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. If the government throws a hundred billion at Detroit, in five years we will be in the exact same place with 100 billion of additional debt we can’t pay.
The few minutes it took you to formulate your response is a few minutes *wasted* that you’ll never get back. The weak-link goo-goo crowd has made up their minds.
(It’ll be fun to watch them slowly twist in the wind, however.)
NavVet's expenditure of time has spared others of us from taking the time to express much the same sentiment.