[wastedyears]

Heck, I don’t see how throwing money at the problem is going to fix it. They must be allowed to fail, so that they will downsize, and come back smaller, stronger and more efficient.

Plus, their workers making obscene amounts of money due to unions doesn’t help, either.

[muawiyah]

Clue, the present wage scale for hires over the last few years is consistent with that of foreign manufacturers with factories in the US.

We are dealing with "overhead" ~ to wit, retiree medical insurance/care and retiree pensions.

There are 600,000 people involved. Once you've trimmed GM/FORD/CHRYSLER down to fighting trim and offloaded those retiree costs, you and I get to pay the overhead.

You ready for that?