[pnh102]

This country will be a better place if GM, Ford and Chrysler went under today. The loss of money for the UAW is the conservative movement’s gain.

[madison10]

It’s the fault of NAFTA and CAFE standards. It’s the UAW asking for the impossible and GM management trying to give it.

IMO, I think the rank and file would give more concessions just to have jobs and retirements,it’s the big-wigs that are stuck on stupid in so many ways and then they start yakking about not giving up any more. *roll eyes*

Maybe the financial woodshed is the only place they will learn anything.

[truthguy]

A heaping bailout for the Big Three automakers - currently losing millions every day theyproduce cars no one wants to buy -

What Garbage. There's lots of American Cars people want to buy. The problem is that the US Auto Makers have tremendous burdens that the foreign manufacturers do not have. An intelligent analysis of the problem would be what readers need so they can understand the situation. If I remember correctly each US car has a legacy cost of about $2300. That's nearly impossible to make up on a small car. So in theory if the US Automakers sold every small car they could make they would still lose money. They did make money on SUV's and Trucks and that's why they built them. It's is simple as that. If the US Auto Industry is to survive and in my opinion it MUST survive then RESTRUCTURE is the name of the game. This article is a piece of trash.

[ex-snook]

From whom shall we import our ships, tanks and planes if a major war is started?

[TRY ONE]

It's not the Big 3 Auto-makers!

It's the DETRIOT Big 3 Auto-makers!

[Fred]

UAW chief urges $25 bln in U.S. auto health care support (Union bailout-payback for $400,000,000)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127523/posts

Who's your DADDY Obama??

Youtube The One on Card Check

Why Doesn't Toyota USA Need A Bailout?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2130909/posts

[MissEdie]

Let the UAW bail them out, afterall they are a primary reason the Big Three are in the mess they are in.

[fightinJAG]

Some very good info here as well:

An Auto Industry Bailout Will Fail.

[Petronski]

I think a better title/topic would be:

Why the Big Three Must Be Permitted to Fail

[wtc911]

There is a supply line problem that nobody is talking about.

Many of the parts makers are teetering on the edge. If they go under it will stop the auto maker plants dead in their tracks. If this happens it won't matter how much of our money we throw down that well.

[truth_seeker]

Some things we know.

1. Daimler Benz took a big bite of Big Three. They chewed a short while, and spit it back out.

2. Toyota, BMW, VW/Audi could easily buy any of the once big three. All have passed, thus far.

3. In nobody noticed, the once big three has had 35 years to adjust to world markets and higher fuel prices. They have lost market share all along.

They have also had ample time to reduce the impact of their unions, through effective management of the issue. Failed there, too.

So what is to say they will do immediately which they have failed to do in the recent past?