| mrstickball said: Final, no, it was more at saving the industry. America will always need cars. If the big 3 collapsed, people would still buy cars. Just not from the big 3. There *are* other car manufacturers out there, and with their increased demand, they would hire some of the unemployed. And given how atrocious the UAW is at managing employee benefits, the big 3 had done far too much to deserve an auto bailout. Why aren't Nissan, Toyota, or Honda looking for handouts, too? |
If they go under because they aren't selling enough vehicles, that reduces the demand increase the others will experience. And let's not kid ourselves, in the current situation the automakers will be pretty conservative about rapid expansion even if such a demand spike did happen. So I'll let Kasz answer the UAW questions and just say that such an event would still have a catastrophic effect in certain regions.
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