GM and Chrysler: What Stays and What Goes

The big Auto giants did this to themselves. Years of ignoring the issues on the planet, ie: climate change, dwindling fossil fuels and changing public demands. Now they are blackmailing the Government and the taxpayers to keep them afloat so that thousands of autoworkers don't loose their jobs.

I bet if you took half of every one of the top 20 executives's bank accounts and investments, in each company, you could get a couple billion right there to float their companies. After that point if they come with an actual plan for retooling their production to produce sensible functional cars within say 5 to 8 years, then they can have the bailout dough. They have learned nothing except they can f**k up and the Government will still bail them out. I know that it takes longer than 5 years to reset a massive company, so what?? they're asking for a ridiculous amount of money so why can't we have ridiculous expectations??

Also frankly, if we, the consumer, want big trucks and suvs and we don't care about the ramifications to the environment, make us pay a premium. Unless it can be proven necessary for work. I am sick to death of watching teenagers hauling around in Pickups and SUVs with v6 and v8 engines. We can't bitch unless we're being responsible ourselves.