The media seems to have really latched onto the collateral damage issue of late - things like all of the related industries and jobs, and really centering on tax revenue. The problem is, they're making it sound as if local governments are dependent on this bailout to maintain their tax base. People will, barring a full-on depression, resume buying cars at some point. It's just a matter of whose cars.

My point is, that we have really done ourselves a disservice by allowing corporations to get so large that we cannot afford for them to fail. It puts the country in a horrible situation, and allows them to dictate policy even more than they already do.

All that said... why are we so fixated on the auto industry? We're dicking them around over 25/34 billion while we've already dropped over 4 trillion into the financial markets.