Mirror Image: Star Trek and Lessons of the Detroit Bailouts

Interview RON PAUL!!!!!!!!

The government needs to stick to defense and when I say defense that doesn't mean "world police". It means defense of our borders and nothing else.

Kirk should be president and let Detroit burn...

Obama has changed the history and the course of the U.S. forever and for the worst. Obama - the first and the worst!

Fewer word of wisdom have I seen on all these blogs than those of Yahoo Finance user. Mr Obama: Get all of us health care, fix the bridges over the Mississippi and stop trying to be the world's policeman and creating democracies where they aren't really wanted.

Go to hell sore loser......leave the union out of it, the union is the people, common workers with no votes at shareholders meetings and the board of greed{directors}.....just check insidertrading for the last ten years and try to find a union person who take a bath in stock options. Old Rick made almost $1 billion in total salary......if you laid off all union workers and have no workers to build cars, they would save about $13 billion, out of $25 billion operating costs...go fly a kite.....people get what they can get, there are a lot better companies out there that take care of their empoyees....IBM for one, look at the DOW 30

Fewer word of wisdom have I seen on all these blogs than those of Yahoo finance user. Mr Obama: Get all of us health care, fix the bridges over the Mississippi and stop trying to be the world's policeman and creating democracies where they aren't really wanted. We really can't afford to do both.

Interview RON PAUL & PETER SCHIFF!!!!!!!!

Think Detroit burns, so will this country, and I will help them....I stand with the union, the people...if we have to burn down the japs..we will...the Hondas and the Nissans and toyotas plants can be taken down and sent back to Japan...the unions in Japan are a lot stronger than the ones in the free Amercia, in Amercia home of the free, we have about 25% union.....thanks for 8 years of anti-labor in DC,,,Bush the worst President ever!!!!

People need to get past the 'too big to fail' mentality. In all forms, that phrase is crippling. Look at what we have done, whom we have stuck the bill with for decades to come by simply by being afraid of what might happen when large companies die. Some financial happenings you just have to live thru versus attempt to avoid. AIG, GM, all else....it is wrong economically to save them and it is simply UnAmerican to prop up those that have failed. What a sad country we live in. What happened to the indomitable spirit Americans once had?

Bailouts were just a bad idea. The powerful helping out the rich. Just plain criminal.

Pleazze Mr Obamas...Gives us FREE health care. Gives us FREE cars...Gives us FREE tacos...Gives us FREE credick cards...Gives us FREE guverment jobs...Gives us FREE butt-wipe papers! Weeze all lazy in Amerika now...We tired of workin for a livin...We just want to stay at homes and bang on drum all day. We haves no pride left. We want Obamas guverment to take gud cares of us and gives us everthin! Dis is not your father's Amerika...We now called Handout Nation. We just sits around havin kids and drinkin beers and watchin Jerry Springfield shows. We have no shame...We wants it all and we wants it for FREE from Mr Hussein Obamas. He gives us everthin we wants. Let's just go ahead an re-eleck hims for 4 more years today? OK???

I think some people are confusing a "special interest" with the "national interest" here.

We will still build cars but as I understand it the profit will leave the country to china and itlay at a greater rate than in the past.

Imagine a guy on a date travelling in an air car,. PUFF, PUFf,.. PUff,...Puff,... puf,.... pu,.... p,....... "Oh Darn,. we ran outta air,.."

John G - you want to put the workers at Toyota, Honda, and Nissan plants out of work? So you admit to favoring one class of workers over another? They're all the same - American workers every one. Except I guess that the Toyotas and Hondas are able to make money since they aren't funding pensions that are exhorbitant. I guess you and Obama are two peas in a pod. He's willing to place union workers above bond-holders (going against bankruptcy laws in the process) who actually risked their own money to invest in GM and Chrysler. Even if you agree with Obama's recklessness there's a severe penalty to be paid. Who in their right mind would ever want to invest their money in a car company again by buying bonds? Oh wait, there's not going to be a free-market system anymore. The government will simply funnel money from the profitable and send it to the unprofitable (i.e. tax Ford to pay the workers of GM). I for one will never buy a GM or Chrysler product until the government eliminates any ownership position. It's horribly unethical the way it stands now.

The Fed Govt needs to focus on Infrastructure, Military, Diplomacy and Education. We need to nuture the technolegies of the future. and dump all of this socal fairness crap off onto the states. That way people can vote by moving. You want universal health care find a state that has it and move there. You want Free education find the state you like and move there.

I'll never buy another UAW-built car again. I am tired of subsidizing the lazy UAW workers.

John G - you want to put the workers at Toyota, Honda, and Nissan plants out of work? So you admit to favoring one class of workers over another? They're all the same - American workers every one. Except I guess that the Toyotas and Hondas are able to make money since they aren't funding salaries and pensions that are exorbitant. I guess you and Obama are two peas in a pod. He's willing to place union workers above bond-holders (going against bankruptcy laws in the process) who actually risked their own money to invest in GM and Chrysler. Even if you agree with Obama's recklessness there's a severe penalty to be paid. Who in their right mind would ever want to invest their money in a car company again by buying bonds? Oh wait, there's not going to be a free-market system anymore. The government will simply funnel money from the profitable and send it to the unprofitable (i.e. tax Ford to pay the workers of GM). I for one will never buy a GM or Chrysler product until the government eliminates any ownership position. It's horribly unethical the way it stands now.

Bypass the bull, go to Youtube and look up HHO. make your own gas. Don't wait till its too late