Originally Posted by
jredison
He made the comment that you don't see GM or Ford asking for paypal donations becasue they produced cars that aren't selling.
I simply stated that he was right, GM and Ford aren't asking for voluntary donations from the public, they are asking the government to help bail them out.
And when the government bails out a private business, every gets to help pay for it whether thye want to or not
They did ask for help, by way of Congress, they're not a private business, they're publicly traded, a cost benefit analysis probably revealed that the number of people who would need welfare benefits and other govt. assistance if the entire company went out of business would outweigh the cost to provide the company with assistance, so on and so forth.
Unfortunately I don't think JAPworks has that kind of rep in the US Congress, but you never know, find a senator who got ripped off on an '04 Celica at some point and maybe he'll take up the cause.