Should Congress Extend the Financial Bailout to U.S. Automakers?

Could it be that the greed of the corporate big-wigs, their multi million dollar packages, the trumped up prices of vehicles to the public, the fact that they try so hard to trick the buyer into high rate financing that they can't really afford, and the fact that these vehicles are, in reality, japanese with the American logo tacked on, have something to do with it? Or could it be that the greedy, stupid corporate types have simply not tried to compete in an ever increasingly competitive world market? Despite the corruption in the unions, they still have done a lot of good for the average worker. If the American auto manufacturers would try to get ahead of the game, or at least be competitive, by building advanced alternative fuel vehicles, and selling them at a cheap price so that people wouldn't have to hock their grandmother just to get to work, I would be happy to see them survive. As it is, they operate on a bad business model, and corporate greed, which is ultimately the cause of their downfall. If they don't want to join us in the twenty first century, then, let them fail, and give that subsidy to an upstart auto company, (of which there are plenty to pick from right here in America), to build the cars and trucks of the future. The jobs will still be here, and we will finally be able to take advantage of the new technologies that would get the Opec bandits out of our pockets. The big three are dinosaurs and should become extinct.

Spoken like a true BLEEDING HEART liberal. Giving 150 billion of my money to AIG is supposed to be ok. What are they going to do with it? Stuff their pockets is a good guess!!
But bailing out our LAST manufacturers in this country is a no no, you my friend have their priorities in the wrong place.
Taxpayers should help the auto industry simply because you probably drive a Toyota and are sending thousands of dollars to Japan and don't care about the people in this country. Don't tell me how much better their cars are than the US cars becaus they aren't. I know because i worked as a supplier to Ford, GM, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda and even Yamaha. Their quality standards are far below that of GM and they ALL get less fuel economy than GM.
So I hope you get to eat your toyota someday because the company you work for can no longer support your sorry butt and ooutsource your job to china.

You obviously didn't read my post if you are indeed replying to me. I say NO bailouts, period. The usurers, the auto makers, no-one deserves it. If they have been un-willing to be competitive in the past, what is to make me believe that they would change their spots now? I have been called a lot of things for my hard line position on matters, but, never liberal. Maybe you were referring to someone else. The foreign cars may not be better, but, they do get better gas mileage, and have higher safety ratings. The so called "American" brands are nothing more than foreign parts with an "American" logo tacked on. The foreign makers are doing ground breaking research into alternative fuels, where are the big three? The foreigners have already rolled out their alternative vehicles, what happened to the EV1? the only affordable, (well, sort of), electric car ever made here, and they took all two hundred of them off the streets, and crushed them up because they threatened their oil buddies, and for no other reason. Too many questions go un answered, that is why I say, if the big three expect a bail out, they had better be able to show us something that would keep them competitive in the world market, and get some of these imports off of our streets.

Don't hold your breathe for Moonlight.  CBS cancelled it last year, when it failed to match the numbers for either Ghost Whisperer or Numbers (10:00).

This year, they filled the slot with The Ex-List, which did even worse.  So it also was cancelled.

For November, CBS has been running repeats of NCIS and it has done better there than either Ex-List or Moonlight.

Who knows what they'll do after the 1st, but Moonlight seems dead and gone.

However, Sci-Fi will begin airing last season's episodes in January.

You are soooooooo right.