[SmokingJoe]

“Those Michigan union auto workers were loyal, patriotic Reagan democrats. Joe the Redneck”

So what?
I am loyal, patriotic, that doesn't mean that if I am running an incompetently run outfit, and the business is about to crash, the government should be pumping tax payer dollars into it.
This is America, not the Soviet Union. Even the Russians and Chinese started following market based economic policies, and look how China has thrived since they allowed the markets and efficiency to dictate a lot of the investment and use of capital.

[Smokin' Joe]

I noticed no one bailed out the oil industry in 1986 or 1998, and it is harder to find a more loyal and patriotic bunch of Americans anywhere on the planet.

Oh, that's right, the International Brotherhood of Oilfield Trash is not a union, but a tongue-in-cheek comment on the way oilfield folks used to be treated by the folks in some of the towns we ended up working in/near.

See what happens when you don't rent a Congress?