GM and Chrysler make poor quality cars, even SMALL cars. why should taxpayers...

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cloggjam1345

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...waste more money? i travel often and thus rent cars often, and get to drive different Chrysler SMALL cars. I tell you, they are horrible compared with foreign. they are loud, have little power, burn way too much gas, and are hard to maneuver. my foot gets sore on the brake pedal because it is soooo poorly made.
isn't easier just to pay unemployment benefits to the ex GM and Chrysler workers, than to bail out 2 companies that are dying anyway?? taxpayers don't pay to keep my job afloat. it just makes no sense!!!!!
these two companies should be let to die sooner than later. the longer you delay it, the harder it will be.
 
Because if GM and Chrysler go out of business they will take with them literally thousands of suppliers, dealers, etc. The ripple effect in the economy would be huge and exactly the wrong thing for the country at this time.
 
Because Obama is in bed with the Unions, that's why we keep bailing them out
 
For no reason at all.

The only reason we only have three big car companies in the US is because they're so big. They've bought up all the makes and consolidated them, so that Plymouth, Dodge, and Chrysler all produced the exact same cars with different names. Likewise for Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury and the GM brands. It happened to Saturn, which was supposed to be a "different kind of car" but now is a re-badged Chevy Malibu. This what happens in the absence of competition.

You don't see companies like Tesla Motors looking for a handout from the government. Tesla is introducing next year a $50,000 all electric sedan with a range of 300 miles. They have a $100,000 sport coupe that does 300 miles on a charge, redlines at 14,000 rpm's and goes 0-60 in less than 4 seconds. This is the kind of competition we need in the American auto industry, and it's been missing for years. If we keep bailing out Detroit, it will be at the expense of companies like Tesla, who clearly has a better product. If we keep these companies artificially afloat, we will never have any other car companies that can compete with them. If we let them fail, someone else will rise to take their place.

It's like bailing out the horse-and-buggy industry at the expense of the Model T. If we had done that a hundred years ago, we wouldn't have an auto industry to bail out now.

It all boils down to competition and our ability to engineer our way out of a fix. Americans have always been able to intent the Next Best Thing, whether it was the Model T, the F/A 18, the M-16, or the XBOX 360. Any time we try to hold on to old technology because we think it gives us, I don't know what, identity maybe? we run the risk of defeating newer, better technology.
 
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