yeah well they can't pay the loans back if they go bankrupt, can they? These automakers are saying that they won't be profitable until 2011-2012.
Are we going to continue bailing them out for three years while they essentially catch up with foreign automakers?
Mind you when the banks were bailed out they didn't perform any better. In fact, they still won't do what they were told to do, which is to lend between themselves. And interbank lending rates have fallen far lower than they were 12 months ago.
And a big thing around Cleveland was the announcement that Pittsburg, PA bank PNC was *buying* Cleveland's largest bank, National City. That announcement came moments after PNC sold 15% of its shares to be bailed out by you and me. Fact is, these businesses are businesses and business will run as usual. They aren't going to change. Automakers represent all that is US business, where the bottom line is the only line. It's time they reap what they've sown. It takes incredible incompetence for a business as large as GM to fail so pathetically.
On another interesting note, since prices at the pump have fallen, so to have Hybrid sales. Hybrid sales are down 50%. Guess we can go back to driving our Hummers, eh?
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