In the book Atlas Shrugged there is a scene when the leaders of the country, who have driven the economy to collape by over regulation, pause for a moment when they acheive their goal of total control by freezing all wages and prices.
The Democrats can't let GM go bankrupt. They can't let them out of the union contracts. They WANT to bailout GM. They've worked on it for decades. Now they can force management to give them a share of the company for cash compensation. When GM comes back to the government needing more they will have to give more. Then one morning the automotive industry is nationalized. The government controls 10% of the economy. Of course by then health care will be nationalized, giving them another 14%. As corporations go under the government buys at the fire sale, or just takes over "to protect jobs".
Welcome to the realization of Anti-Glasnost.
Correction, this will be Anti-Perestroika.
Anti-Glasnost is coming soon in the form of the fairness doctorine.
Yours is another angle of the same object - Communism. Sort of like the four blind men describing a elephant.
However, I am agreement with you. A part of that is the rescue of UAW, a staunch Socialism ally, and as is true with Communism in general, they and their government allies caused the problem that now needs a cash infusion.
As you know, they engineering of the Freedie Mac/Fannie Mae debacle , was to crash the economy, which the had described as awful even while it flourished, to ensure election and to also gain ownership in the banks and other financial institution who accepted their money. They also expect to own the houses and real estate they “rescued.”