I think instead of the government giving money to the car companies, they should just give money/rebates to people who buy cars. For example, you buy a $25,000 car. The government gives the car company $10,000 and you buy the car from the dealer for $15,000. You'd think pretty hard about whether you want that new car (assuming you have a job) if you thought you'd get that much money off the price of the car.
It's difficult to watch this car company drama play out, especially because so many of my friends and neighbors work for Ford and GM (and even Toyota) here in southeastern Michigan. This area has always been so heavily dependent on the car industry, and to watch it struggle is difficult.
The thing that bothers me the most, and my wife too, is that there is so little manufacturing in the US these days that stopping production of a large percentage of cars here would be awful. We need to make things in this country, we can't just be a nation of service businesses.
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