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written by FRANK B , December 09, 2008

IF GM is going to move to China as we all know that they will do then China should bail them out. If America bails them out then the deal must be that the cars and Dies and parts are made here with competitive small business that can compete with China. Lets stop protecting UNION jobs and start protecting AMERICA's Jobs and factories. Unions give a small group of people special benefits that others do not have. Small business is 10 times faster better cheaper than the Unions shops. The Unions put it in there contract to stop outsourcing to American small business. That forced GM to send everyone's jobs to China. Measure Union productivity and pay them accordingly. Out source to the Small business in the USA and the problem will be solved. Or give 37 Billion to the Small business in the USA and they will build the best cars for the lowest price the world has ever seen. They will get 100 MPG and they will be 3 times safer in a crash. Small business if properly funded and back by Americans would change the world and give us new products 20 years faster the any of the big old slow union run monstrosities could ever do. If you gave the small business 700 Billion you would see flying cars that run on a new fuel source never thought of before in 5 years. They would create new batteries and solar cells and wind wave power and build geothermal energy plants to power the cars trucks and busses they they would design build and power with American creativity and hard work. Or you can give the funds to the people that have destroyed our country and stole our money and sent our jobs to a communist country's like China and Russia. What would you choose? I support American creativity and hard work and small bussness every time.

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written by swampyanqui , December 05, 2008

answer to Bob Johns...The people who run these companies would love to offshore more production. That leaves us(US) with less manufacturing and them with more profit. They care for their companies' bottom lines(and their own bottom lines), not the country, not the American worker. They are like the US companies in WWII that did business with Hitler...in the end they did not care who won just as long as they kept their companies. This is capitalism run amok! So, China buys our treasuries(lends us money), and we give that money to GM to put up Chinese factories. Waggoner is listening...is congress?

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written by Milton Heft , December 05, 2008

GM has a;ways wanted to close shop here and move to China. That's why they first disassociated themselves from their offspring, Delphi Parts, and then Delphi moved to China. Delphi is now the largest auto parts maker in China and has declared bankruptcy in the USA. Today, GM has 3 large successful plants in China and would dearly love to follow Delphi and close out in the USA. Even now, how many Chinese components are there in GM's American production???? Why isn't that question being asked in the current hearings???

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written by bob johns , December 05, 2008

Henry Ford wanted to build cars his employees could afford. Which also meant he had employees who could buy cars in the American market. Which, in turn, implied that workers were employed here. What a concept. Is Waggoner listening? Unless there is a "buy American" component to a Detroit baliout loan program there shouldn't be one....