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	Name:	Swimmer27 -
	Subject:	Should the government bail out
	Date:	11/11/2008 6:21:35 AM

CAT, you make very valid points, but the reality is that the UAW took over the retirement benifits a few years back. It is also suppossed to be protected in a trust. What we have to look at now is the current situation. The big three are hurting becuase of poor business diecisions and unreasonable union demands. None of the 'imports' are asking for help. If they fail, somebody will buy them out, retool, and start making cars again when the economy turns around. It cost $30 an hour more to make a nion car than it does to make a non union car. The unions are killing the domestic car business, and the union bosses don't care. Not until they shut down and the dues stop coming in. Them they want to point fingers.

And why bail them out to continue to build cars that nobody is buying. Dealers like you would have a lot FULL of inventory they can't move. The manufacturers start to force the dealers to buy with 'incnentives' and then it falls on the dealers to suffer the brunt of meltdown.

Good luck to you. I have family in the car business that is suffering now also. In fact almost all of my family is in the car and mortgage business. Sucks to be them right now.