Reply #52: I think a good bit of the resistence to what's being done with the car companies .....

[Stinky The Clown]

.... is that the same plan you (rightly) suggest will ultimately save the industry is the same plan that might save the banking industry ...... but no one is even suggesting it.

I agree with you. There needs to be a fundamental change in the fundamental business model.

One of those fundamental changes, by the way, one which no one seems to be talking about it seriously, would be the implementation of universal single payer health care. Get that monkey off the back of business.