My opinion is if the Government has to bail you out, you probably have a pretty bad business plan. Too bad the auto companies in US can't be innovative like the Germans and Japanese. WHile I dont care much about how my few hundred dollars is spent on companies, I would much rather put my money elsewhere then into the companies producing chevy cobalts(cavalier) and ford taurus's in 2009. If somebody was handed a free check for 30k, how many people would die to go hit the ford or chevy car lot? In the short term it will be really bad, but all the people buying fords, chevy's etc will eventually be buying toyotas hondas volkswagen etc... Demand will increase, and so will the demand for skilled employees.