Should The Government Bailout GM?

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I notice a lot of people on this thread are defending the unions in Detroit and complaining about how the blame should rest on management. Being the centerist I am I think it's fair to say that management has dropped the ball and is in part to blame, I mean hell, one of the Big 3 employed Matt Millen for how many years? However that doesn't expalin the fact that automakers with plants in the south are doing very well for themselves in terms of providing jobs as well as effective management.

The south is a lot of things that I despise, but in retrospect two things they seem to have right are warm weather and non-unionized auto plants, oh and affordable housing (for example a $300,000 house in Georgia cost over a $1,000,000 in California). Obviously now the southern auto plants aren't immune to the recession but last I checked companies like Toyota and BMW aren't flying to Washington in private jets begging for $25 billion from the federal government. Then again does anyone know whats going on in Japan and Germany?

Honestly though six figures for working on an assembly line is madness. Unions already have crippled the airline industry and I'll be damned if they get a hold of the auto industry as well. Plus now they're (unions) hoping to get a petition like ballot where they can send in votes for a certain politician which pretty much goes against everything America is suppose to stand for. I mean imagine if you don't sign the petition and you're part of a union?

We're past the days were companies would pay 5 cents a day to overworked employees. The government has regulations in place to protect workers. People frequently complain about companies outsourcing but the truth is the unions in respective industries made the cost of hiring people in America to much to be competitive. As a result the companies that could, choose to outsource (obvisouly airlines can't outsource) and now those jobs are never coming back.