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Carmaker Bailout: Do you support extending the federal financial bailout to U.S. automakers?
Comment: Why bail them out. They didn't try do turn away from gas guzzlers, so let them make out on their own. from Navarre, Fl. by C J
Comment: No, they charge too much for the cars already. They need to help homeowners more than car makers. from Pace Fl by R.H.
Comment: ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! They have wasted the 25 Billion they were given before.
The car industry needs to crash and burn, and come back ready to build fuel efficient cars with new investors. from Pensacola / FL by Gary
Comment: Allowing the US auto industry to go out of business would send even more funds overseas.
Also the US big three are needed to produce militsry vehicles.
A third concern is that adding about three million people to the unemployment lines would reqire massive retraining and take years.
Last we don't have enough minimum wage jobs to employ the current unemployed people.
Grandpa R from FWB, FL by Ray
Comment: It is not the government's fault US automakers have been making a faulty product for the past twenty years. Consumers are looking for reliability, quality, and safer vehicles and the US hasn't been producing that because they are more worried about saving money and sending our DOMESTIC vehicles oversees, making them imports while foreign makers build in the US boosting our economy and making a better product on OUR soil. For example, most Nissan's are made in Mississippi. from Pensacola, FL by Scott
Comment: hell no from Milton FL by Cody
Comment: The unions have to give up major portions of the fully company funded health care and retirement programs first. Otherwise, the tax payers mearly step in to the shoes of the company and take on unrealist benefits granted to the unions over the years. from Milton, Fl by Jim
Comment: They saw a handout was given to the housing market and thought they could jump on the bandwagon. Maybe if they made better vehicles with better pricing, they would still be making a profit. It is not the taxpayers job to handle the mis managment of companies. from Pensacola, FL by Stephanie
Comment: No, I do not think the federal goverment should bailout the automakers. The automakers have had record profits over the last 20 years. Let them use some of the profits, Cut some of the executives pay and bennifits. I have heard that the board of directors only have to attend 1/3 of the board meetings to be in good standings. If I were to go to work 1/3 of the time I'd loose my job pretty darn quick.
And why is AIG getting any bailout money at all. They seam to slap the american public in the face by holding meetings in high dollar hotels and spending hundered of thousands of dollars at our expence. from Milton/Florida by Steven
Comment: If we bail them out were are they going to get the sales base
we cant afford a new car now.It will be a waste of tax payers money. from Pensacola by AL
Comment: As the Democratic party supported the unions that destroyed the American car industry, it's only fair that they take my tax dollars to support their most faithfull supporters as we move to becoming a third world socialist republic. from Pensacola FL by Mike
Comment: There is already a system in place for companies that can't make a profit...bankruptcy. from Crestview, FL by Fred
Comment: If the Democrats in Congress want to bail out the auto makers, then let them pay for it and leave the Republicans, Independents and Undecided out of it. They - the Democrats - seem to think if they need more money all they have to do is print it - an endless supply! The rest of us who are sane know better. from Pace/FL by Al
Comment: The unions have priced themselves out of business and the democrats are using our tax money to reward the unions for supporting Obana. from molino by lawson
Comment: I guess we could let them go bankrupt but what if we were involved in a major war. Would we have to depend on the Japanese or the Germans to build our tanks and other military vehicles? Kind of makes you think. by Bob
Comment: i'm a believer of the free market system and if any business is cannot make adjustments to keep up with the times and the competition, then they should go under. but i do understand that there alot of jobs being affected by this. the big three always carried an air of arrogance, million dollars to their executives but lay-offs to the actual workers? if they would have been more centered on what the market would look like in the future, they would have made more fuel saving vehicles...instead of banking on short term profits on vehicles that do not make any sense...trucks...SUV's...sports cars that have a gazillion horsepower but the speed limit is still 70...maybe this is the reason why the big three is hoping for a corp welfare check from the government... from p'cola fl by h
Comment: NO-NO--HECK NO!!! The carmakers got themselves into the mess their in, just as the rest of us. If we keep "bailing out", just who do you think will bail us out?
When and where does it stop. For the past forty years plus, the US government has been quick to act as the world policeman and financial guru; now that the US is proving to be as human as the rest of the world, just who is knocking down the doors to help us? We are in this for the long haul, and like it or not, we (the taxpayers) have got to get the message to our spend-thrift congress that enough is enough. We'll see if this new class of crooks we just elected into congress hear the American public enough to do something about it. from Mary Esther, FL. by Tom
Comment: Unlike the Reagan era, the auto industry is the wrong place to jump-start our economy. It was actually wrong then! Look at where it has brought us? I'm tired of the "quick fix" mentality to the economy. Besides, GM and others should have been making the more energy efficient cars like they make for Europeans years ago! We need a new transit system. That's what we should be building. How will we ever get away from our dependence on foreign oil by boosting more car sales, and returning to "business as usual"? Haven't we learned anything from this recession? from Huntsville, AL by Stephen
Comment: NO! NO bailout for them. They have had MANY years to make fuel efficient cars but they chose to pad their pockets & say, 'so what' to America. Now they are paying the price and it's only their fault.
Where will the 'bailouts' end? Surely the government won't bail out the middle class people of America & certainly not the poor.
Why should the auto makers continue to line their pockets while the rest of us pay for them to live the ‘easy life’.
from Milton, FL by Carol
Comment: Doesn't anybody get this? It doesn't matter how many billion we give the auto makers. If people can't get the loans to buy a new car what's the point? Maybe what the government should do is tell these banks that got billions of our tax payer dollars to start loaning it out. If people get the loans and buy the cars the auto makers will survive. from Pensacola by Tom
Comment: NO!!! under no circumstances should we continue to bail out these companies. They have set aside money for bonuses. Let them use that money and then start cutting those high salaries. The union is what we will be paying if we give them the money. NO NO NO from AL by d
Comment: I don't think the government should bail out ANY company!!! from Pensacola, FL by Kathy
Comment: No way!!! We need to start bailing out the taxpayers. from Pensacola by Tracy
Comment: who else would make our war
material, the chinese. from pns, fl. by john
Comment: The best thing would be to allow the carmakers to file banksrupcy and re-organize like the airlines did and have survived. Our taxes are already stretched passed the limit. from fl by Mercedes
Comment: Yes, but with conditions that the money can be used only for production type purposes - not for union or health care bills. from Gulf Breeze, FL by Don
Comment: Why don't they make a product that people will buy.The japanese companies are doing fine because they make small well build cars. from Milton by David
Comment: No I do not support any bailout of any kind. If I over extend my check book I have to get out of it on my own. The automakers did this without anyones help, they need to get out of it on their own. For those of us who have been paying our taxes, paying our bills, working most of our life trying to be responsible and accepting responsibility for our actions there is no bail out. The same as there is no reason for Exxon-Mobile to make almost $18 billion in profits last quarter. The only bailout I'll support would be one for the American workers trying to keep their head above water. Neither wall street nor the automakers should get a dime. Tell the executives to cut their salaries. from Molino,FL by Willard
Comment: we're on the fast track to socialism - government ownership! by Birgit
Comment: NO,NO,NO.....This is srrictly a union bailout. A payback for their support of Obama. Let them file for Chapter 11 like other corporations. Unions always end up killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Remember Eastern Airlines??? from Navarre,Fl by Terrance
Comment: For years I have been wondering how there could be so many different kinds of cars on the road. How can the auto makers produce and maintain so many? Who's able to buy all these cars? America the Greedy! from Pensacola by Ann
Comment: Why not. We bailed out all of Paulson's cronnies on wall street. from Cantonment by Rochelle
Comment: To many people losing their homes. Why not help them or give the money to us tax payers so we can put the money back into the ecomony the right way. Not the CEO'S Way. ( the big guy's are who is hurting us little guys. They will go on vacations or some stupid something like that).They would never use the money the way they say they will. (Like AIG ) PARTY PARTY PARTY is all they have on their mines. from pensacola FL by mary
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