Amazing....our retirement funds are subject to "the mood" on Wall Street. I only wonder what I would have done had I known that my financial security would rest on "the mood" of people and corporation who need to show a loss on their balance sheets.

No matter how much money is thrown the Big 3's way it still isn't going to help up their sales!! The problem is that consumers can't get loans or afford to buy a new car. So the automakers will still have huge problems regardless if they get the money or not.

The only way to help them is to help us by getting the economy back in order so people can afford to pay their bills plus have money to get a car. Also the Big 3 need to lower the prices on their cars and the banks need to actually loan money again.

Cindy...Ga.

Congress should give the LOANS to the automakers. The auto sales slump is also affecting Foreign car makers. It is the financial crisis that has caused the drop in car sales not fuel efficient vehicles. The loans should be made only if the unions make extensive concessions. Otherwise, all should file for bankruptcy and under restructuring eliminate the unions. It is a fact that foreign carmakers in this country do not have unions. This will make everything equal.

This country's a Republic. Originally founded on a,"Democratic (elected officials) Political System", Period! We are very close to becoming a "Communist Political System,Republic", yea,we look the other way (just like we've done in this country regarding other issues the past Thirty Years) ,and won't face the raw facts,but if you go ahead and bail-out the (State Run) auto-industry who now have raised the anti to $34 Billion from $25Billion in a week, just think what they'll be asking for in another year,pathetic! Now, the icing on the cake will come when NY,Calif,Ma,and the other Forty-Seven pieces of the once called Democracy we called America,....come a begging to the Politboro. Oh,I hope I haven't offended anyone,because that's what I'm trying to do,..."Wake Up America"!

I've read and heard enough about the Big 3's bailout request and at first agreed they should be bailed out. Now I totally disagree. We should not have to pay to save any company that is failing. Jobs have been lost from failed companies in the past and jobs have been reinvented, it makes no sense.

Everyone seems to forget that Ford Motor Co. along with General Motors and the Auto Workers came to the aid of this country during World War II when their factories were converted to make Airplanes and munitions etc. If it weren't for that effort of these companies and their employees the outcome may have been different. Regardless of the conduct of the CEO's that represent these organizations, if they present a good business plan to realign their companies they should get their bailout. It is the least America can do for them, they came through for us. I don't remember the financial institutions doing the same.

I agree that the feds should loan money to the Big 3, but not give them a free buyout. It could just mean that more money goes down the drain with the same management and the same business strategies.

Since the Fed is printing money with nothing to back it up why don't they just print & send us enough to bail us out?
With only $20,000 I could pay off my one debt, & Pay my bills & needs ahead for a couple of years.
As for Gas, You may be paying $1.80 a Gallon, We are still paying $2.25 a Gallon here. Our Legislators Here in California Legislated us into this hole- Maybe the shortfall should come directly out of Thier Pockets.
Maybe then They'd learn noit to spend other peoples money like Drunken Sailors ( My appologies to the Drunken Sailors- as Our Legislators make the worst of you look like Angels)

I do not understand the attitude of many regarding the government helping the auto industry. We simply cannot afford to let our auto industry collapse.

It amazes me that our financial institutions like Citicorp, AIG, and others can simple put their hands out for more and more money and nobody questions it or makes them disclose why they need the money and how they will use it. But when the automakers ask for help, then all of a sudden it's a huge problem. No bailout or help for the automakers! Why? There are millions of jobs at stake and the last thing we need is more people out of work. That certainly will not help the economy.

If the automakers have a clear plan to recovery and are willing to cut salaries for CEO's and the unions are willing to take cuts, then I see no reason not to help save this industry.

This is a loan, not a free pass. Without it, hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and closed up vendors. These CEO's at least are doing whatever it takes to keep an entire industry afloat not like the bank bailout where it only helped the mis-managed individual banks. The automotive industry is a pillar of our economy and shouldn't be allowed to crumble.

I say no... There is no need to bailout the big three. We can use them as an example, if we bail them out thier ego will be bigger than ever. They already think that they deserve this when they ran the companies into the ground. They had the electric cars in the 90 and early 00's but still maintained building gas guzzlers. If we dont teach them a lesson now they will never learn.

I say NO-NO-NO-.Who is going to bail-out the coal industry,timber industry,etc.

The oil industry is,in a large part, dependant on the auto industry ,and with all the profits made in the past few years THEY could loan the auto industry the needed monies.

However, if oil LOANS them the money, they would be required to pay it back.Not so with the taxpayers money