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Originally Posted by Kirk@VectorMotorsports
I don't even know what my exact point is, but I have seen enough of my friends and families lives negatively affected by layoffs and plant closings to know that saving the US automakers is not a bad thing.
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Saving a megacorp and all of it's employees from collapse is generally good, that's easy. Well if the corp wasn't addressing the reasons for it's failure it might not be good, but regarding this specific bailout GM and the UAW have made serious progress in the last few years, I'm not sure they've turned the corner but they are close to doing so. Adding billions and billions to the national debt is a bad thing though, also easy. The government getting involved in who should have their job saved and who shouldn't is disturbing. I'm not looking to get into debate over the bailouts, simply pointing out that it isn't a straight forward good/bad debate.