Michael Moore has spoken the only sane words in the whole auto crisis ciracus. You don’t have to nationalize the industry for Congress and taxpayers to call the shots; put Micahael Moore in charge of dispensing the funds and seeing that the auto industry changes course in order to qualify for those funds. Unfortunately we cannot wait for Obama to do this, and Michael Moore is the only other person to have both a clear vision and the determination to see it through without succumbing to the temptation to give in and allow the carmakers to spend the money on car races and baseball stadiums and huge executive bonuses and layoffs. Michael Moore is right; you cannot fix the auto crisis by laying people off. People need jobs to buy cars; but we also need public transit and some employees could be relocated to new product lines like buses and rapid light rail transit and hybrids and all-electric vehichles. Fire

I agree a lot with MM - Fire the CEO’s, The Big 3 are all worth less than 10 Billion, but are asking how much again? Or Let the German and Japanese Car Companies buy the BIG 3 and keep the Unions and Workers; or Make Exxon and the other oil companies who’ve made obscene profits in the last years bail them out.

Trains, Hybrids, and Electric cars; It all sounds amazing doesn’t it? In reality not everyone is going to *poof* and in one instant decide to want and buy those type of cars. Yes producing hummers and automobiles was a foolish idea. But the government cannot go to the extreme opposing side of the spectrum and force automakers to solely produce only these new alternative automobiles. I don’t believe that would be an effective way of saving the big three, and ultimately the economy. On another note: we should not have rewarded these companies for their failure. I believe we should have not given them a penny and let them fail. Has any anything positive or productive come from lending them millions?

silly shored. Nothing positive will come to our economy in the long run. All those people would still have jobs, if the automakers would just file for bankruptcy already and liquidate there assests to the more succesful foreign. Then all those employees would have more efficient jobs for our economy, while producing automobiles that Americans actually want. If the big three pulls through, they would still produce huge SUV’s. And yes people are doing many things to help the environment but the big three are not. Ford has had the technology to produce fuel efficient cars for many years but barely started commercializing them until recently(while still producing excursions, F-150s, etc etc). Honestly we need to let all three fail, let them restructure there management a bit and liquidate there assets to more succesful, smarter, and responsible industries. They are doing nothing but crippling our economy,

bmarch>what evidence or consequences do you think we will benefit from? we are bailing them out now and lending them money. they are failing. and if they do succeed they will still be crushing our economy by producing less fuel efficient automobiles than the foreign cars. if the foreign automakers ran these companies we would still be the same, in fact even better because they would restructure the entire management, produce cars Americans want, and strengthen the economy. Giving these automakers money is just delying the inevitable fate of the big three. Which is failure.

rideburton123, i feel as if your too opinionated on how foreign car companies are the solution to this problem. You must understand that the big three have attributed so much to this country in so many aspects that they are really needed in our lives. Letting them go bankrupt would be a huge mistake. Though i do think “Stacey” has a very good idea and i can actaully agree with her. Bottom line is that this issue is effecting everyone and we must do anything we can to keep the big three in business.

I believe it will effect everyone if we let these three fail. for instance if Gm went iinto bankruptcy and didnt pay any of their trade debts the the whole domestic auto industry shuts down. Do you have a rebuttal to that?

Also whether Gm survives for fails the taxpayers are already on the hook for billions of dollars that have been spent. From GM’s pension obligation which you forogt about, to all of the tax revenues to all the unmployment costs. Evaluate this then give me another rebuttal. =]

Just to make known bmarch, you had norebuttal for any of my previous comments, just vague and general statements like “it will effect everyone.” And our auto industry is already in a s***hole giving them this undeserved and worthless bailout will do nothing but pausing the downfall of GM and the auto industry. Sorry the billions of dollars lent will do nothing for your precious GM and Chrysler but further ruin their image and keep them afloat for a year or less. we will see if you favor the big three in ten years when they are nothing.