First, calling someone a bigot just makes them offended. You should really stop that, it just makes you feel better. If you just want to feel better, go on a vacation.

Second, your argument hinges on the fact that people understand that it's natural to be homosexual. 90% of the people that voted Yes on prop 8 believe that being Homosexual is a choice. You should spend a little more time fighting this misconception and a little less time calling people names.

As Merrill posted above heavy equipment manufacturers are the ones that produce the equipment the military needs most.

Really if you think about it the quality of the products coming out of the big three might be exactly why the military doesn't use them. A restructuring might be in the best interests of national security! At least then they might be able to make something the US military could use.

Who do you think makes the military Hummer? GM? Wrong. AM General

Who do you think makes the M1 abrams tank? Ford? Wrong. General Dynamics

This argument is just more crap coming out of Detroit. Don't be fooled by their miss information and lies.

How about we actually look at reliability statistics?

http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/105981712.html

Yeah, this is why I never buy anything out of Detroit, I like something that costs $20-40K to last a little longer than a couple of years.

For me it's the part where only politically connected companies get special treatment from the government. How about we change the system so that everyone has health care and social insurance when they become unemployed? This is an opportunity to fix the social net not to try and figure out how to run a car company. I voted for Obama for a lot of reasons but his ability to run a car company wasn't one of them.

>Here's what's at stake. The Center for Auto Research says, "Should all of the Detroit Three's U.S. operations cease in 2009, the first year total employment impact would be a loss of nearly 3 million jobs in the U.S. economy

But we aren't talking about all three, we are talking about just GM. I wish people would stop using figures that don't relate to the issue at hand. It just makes me ever more skeptical.

How about we let other companies that value those assets pay for them? I'm not sure what you think the government is going to do with a bunch of assembly line equipment?

I'm getting sick of reading this misinformation. It's like reading crap out of the Bush administration. Do you even know what you are talking about? 10%?!!! We have about 190,000,000 employed people. 10% would be 18.6 million people. Where do you get these numbers? It's fear mongering. GM employs around 266,000 and those are the most at risk. Certainly the 3rd party parts suppliers will be hit but imagining that it's going to be over 1,000,000 is just silly.

Even if it was 1 million. 50 billion divided by 1 million is still $50,000 per person. I'd rather just extend unemployment benefits for 2 years and we would still be better off. All this scare mongering just makes me think back to why we went into Iraq. Misinformation form people that want to make some easy money.

If you want to own an auto company go buy some GM stock, it's really cheap right now. Please don't force me to buy any, I think it's completely oversold.