Okay, nobody is asking me but I am going to say it anyway:

Hey Detroit – Maybe you should stop putting MP3 players, GPS crap, and seat warmers into your cars and build a solid drive train. Knock off the flip down TV’s, cup holders, and rear view navigation and make me a solid affordable car that gets my family from one point to the next safely.

Build me the modern version of the Dodge Dart with the slant six and then maybe I’ll buy one of your products.

Furthermore, if there is any justice, the next time someone tells me that we have a free market and capitalism is our financial system they should burst into flames in a inferno of spontaneous combustion. Part of business in a free market system is risk and failure. If you remove risk for certain companies ( by bailing them out ) then there is no free market – and if you don’t allow companies to fail then you remove one of the stages in the business cycle.

I am sure that there were people at one point in history, right before Henry Ford got cranked up, that were crying “If you don’t save the horse and buggy industry then thousands of people will lose their jobs.” “The horse and buggy industry is imperative to out national economy, if we don’t manufacture our own buggies and buggy whips then we will cripple our transportation system.”