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Great idea help Detroit retrofit their existing inventory to provide really efficient cars (as they do for overseas markets) putting people to work on really constructive projects leading toward our objectives of improved energy efficiency, etc, etc, etc.

I think the government should buy cars from the Big 3. This is a better plan for our tax dollars than just giving them billions with the chance the taxpayers get nothing in return. I would demand very high quality from them as well as concessions from both labor and management. There is plenty of blame to go around as to why the Big 3 are in such desperate straights. Whatever the government decides to do with the auto makers, they need to do it right and not just put a band-aid on the present business model.

Hmm? Who has been making the government fleet BMW? The last time I looked the pres. usually rides in an armor plated Caddy and Bushy likes chevy pick ups.(the BIG ones).
The entire auto industry is in trouble - world wide. It's a direct result of housing and making a product that lasts longer. There too many people making cars and too much production capacity. At the moment, the ONLY car maker NOT in financial trouble or cutting back is the French Renault. I am talking the majors, not the niche guys.
What is being asked of Congress and the taxpayer are LOANS, not hand outs and our 25 billion is surpassed by the EU's 50 billion - that's Euro's, not dollars. They have a bigger problem. Japan is subsidizing as of now, but they are going to be in this act before long. The government acted quickly and poorly with the banks and if they don't get off the talk show routine and act on this one - the old "atomic attack" will apply. To those not old enough - that means put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye. AKA depression.

They should be buying these all along.....if they have been buying imports then it the Bush whitehouse's fault...those idoit right wingers think if they buy Japs or wetbacks cars they will hurt the middle class and they have....now we can not buy the cheap tvs, and computers at walmart made in COMMUNIST CHINA or the cheap cars made all over the world, because we do not have a job, the good paying job we use to have has been shipped over seas to slave labor for about $1 an hour, sunup til sundown, 7 days a week and if you do not like it...quit!!

What a bunch of nonsense. This can't be serious. Why not pass a law to require the government to buy the products at the company at which I work?

These guys are running their companies so poorly that they are losing $1000 every time they sell a car. They were losing boat loads of money even when the economy was robust and GM was selling 1 of every 4 cars sold in America. You guys really think the problem with the car companies is that the government isn't buying enough of their cars?

I think this suggestion is the guy losing money hauling watermelons to Florida so he buys a bigger truck scheme.

The big three products are outdated, they are like selling home phone lines in a cell phone world. They just keep trying to sell improved gas consuming auto's. They need to sell total electric auto's, that is what the world needs and they have no incentive to go there, they have millions in old machines and designs. The gov't should require production of total electric autos by the tens of thousands. Let the gov't use them first and then resale to dealers. We don't need an eletric to go 300 miles, we need an electric to go 100 miles. ASAP