It’s your right as an American to buy what you want. If GM made better cars than say Honda, then I would expect their sales to exceed Hondas. But how can a citizen, average American, who makes say $20.00/hour afford a car made by someone making $75.00 per hour? What are the legacy costs you refer to? Capitalism should allow a non-profitable company to go under. The Big 3 make profits in other companies like Brazil. That’s because there are no unions in Brazil, and probably no EPA creating unreachable cafe standards. I don’t want a depression, but I don’t want my grand children paying for fat cats in Detroit to fly around in private jets either.