on Auto Bailout Plan Finalized - Carmakers To Get $15 Billion at 09:44 12/11/2008 as a reply on the comment by Melley

actually without the auto companies almost all of the US industry would be overseas. not to mention all of the suppliers would go out of business, if the automakers were to go bankrupt, everyone would be affected.

on Auto Bailout Plan Finalized - Carmakers To Get $15 Billion at 09:41 12/11/2008

It is not the automakers fault that they are annually loosing billions of dollars. The problem is not car sales alone, it is the amount of pay the UAW was demanding from the car companies. The UAW caused this whole problem, and they are aware of it. The reason foreign automakers are doing so much better is because they do not have a unionized work force.