Perhaps the three US companies should go into bankruptcy and be combined into one company.

I suspect that there will still be a market for SUVs — even if the gas prices go back up. Each company should concentrate on what they do best — and figure out how to make a decent RELIABLE vehicle.

Can anybody say revolution, an underground cash economy, a bankrupt US government that can no longer borrow so it prints worthless money, causing inflation ?

We need to as a country start making smarter choices.

Companies like Cerbrus aquire and chop up for profit. Also the declining auto market along with Chrylser relative lower quality, pretty much put Chrylser at the bottom.

Corker pretty much called it. They are waiting to get married and this bailout amounts to a facial to make things look better on their sheets. Just a different form of AIG and Citigroup et al, only smaller dollars.

I would suspect it is the role of the Czar to sort that all out.

Owning not one, but TWO MoPars, I followed the financial fandangoes relative to ownership of Chrysler.

Diamler-Benz effectively paid Cerberus to take Chrysler off its hands. Chrysler is actually worth less as a carmaking company than its real estate is worth. Only the Jeep name and, possibly the minivan business are worth more than a bucket of warm spit.

Cerberus is simply getting more Free Money, only from us this time instead of Daimler-Benz.

Is this a great country, or what?