Oh, why the hell not?

Nnngggggghhhhh.....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stunned by the loss of 500,000 jobs, congressional Democrats and the White House reached for agreement Friday on about $15 billion in bailout loans for the beleaguered auto industry. President George W. Bush warned that at least one of the Big Three carmakers might not survive the current economic crisis.

Excuse me while I twitch in rage for a few moments.
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Okay. So the economy sucks: true. We should try to make it suck less: true. People will lose jobs if the Big 3 aren't bailed out: Regrettably true.

American car makers should have gobs of money thrown at them despite the fact that their products suck balls and the companies have been grossly mismanaged: NOT true.

Look, it sucks that there'll be half a million people more out of work. They'll probably be out of work within a decade anyway, because either they'll retire, or their job will be replaced by a more efficient, less costly automated process. That's called progress. Sorry, guys, but it's time to hang up your factory clothes and join the modern era. The financial well-being of those 500,000 shlubs in Michigan simply does not outweigh the financial well-being of the next generation or three of all Americans. Your family has some hard times - I'm sorry, that sucks. So cut out cable, turn the thermostat down a few degrees, swallow your pride and go to the local unemployment office. Food stamps for that many people is still more affordable than fifteen billion.

American car companies are doing so poorly because their product sucks. This isn't news to anyone. American cars are generally regarded as a joke. They get crappy mileage, they're poorly designed, they're ugly, and people don't like them. That's your fault, not the fault of American consumers, so we should again tell the CEOs to suck it up and accept that they're going to go down in history as the ones who ran the industry permanantly into the ground.