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Originally Posted by The_Blur

Allow me to identify my priorities.
1 Help as many otherwise screwed Americans as possible. By keeping GM afloat, millions of Americans keep their jobs.
2 Protect American businesses. The US needs that money to pay for government programs and policies, including the military and federal expenses.
3 Be fair to the market as a whole. As someone who supports American hegemony in the international system, I believe that the US should protect some of its businesses before allowing companies that make less than genius market decisions to fail. In a purely capitalist system, GM should fail for not following the market and making too many SUVs, but that would terminate the employment of millions of Americans and kill enormous amounts of tax revenue. I care less about the world market than I care about American jobs (see 1) and American businesses (see 2). If I were Italian, I'd say that I want to protect Italian jobs and Italian businesses as a priority over the world.