You both make good points in posts# 47 and #48, and from both sides of the issue.
Re-framed the issue might be: in this economic `triage’, can these patients be saved, and we have the option of asking—should they be saved?
A month ago we were told that if we didn’t revive Wall Street with tax dollars, we wouldn’t be able to write checks come Christmas. Now the automakers (and UAW) are saying, don’t help us and millions of Americans are out of work. I don’t know what to believe.
Well, if you'd like to retain some quick-turn, heavy industrial capacity in the face of a new WW, then, hell yes.