Comments on: Audio: Andrew on NPR on Auto Bailout

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:35:36 +0000

Don't think you (Andrew) were too strident at all. Good discussion….you actually sounded like the voice of reason…on a very volatile subject.

By: Gauntlett

Gauntlett — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:13:34 +0000

Last I checked Toyota is doing okay. Auto sales as a whole aren’t doing well, but I personally don’t want to pay to support a failing industry. Companies come and go. History is a proof of that. If they fail many people will lose jobs, but what is the point in helping a failing company with no future prospect?

Let them fail, people will find jobs in other industries or perhaps Toyota will employ them to manufacture cars in the United States. Any money that goes towards an auto bailout will be money that could have been used elsewhere.

Who’s after the big-3… airlines?

By: Michael Laxner

Michael Laxner — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:13:29 +0000

Let them fail. The did not provide the public with a car that met demand. Why take tax money from healthy businesses and give them to unhealthy business. Should we have save the buggy whip maker with the same logic?

By: jasonA

jasonA — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:28:22 +0000

What would Adam Smith do? My guess is:

Let failing companies fail (what a novel idea!), then give the government money directly to the workers to support them while they look for other jobs/retraining. The day that a company becomes “too big” or “too vital” to America to fail despite its incompetent management is the day it needs to be nationalized.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:36:27 +0000

I’m a crazy left leaning liberal and I say let them fail, only the strong need to survive. Unemployment sucks, but so do a lot of things in life. Going to price out my new Honda now…