The government wants me to bailout homeowners who were greedy and too illiterate to read through a mortgage and figure out that they would not be able to afford the payment in years to come.
Now the government wants me to bailout auto manufacturers who didn't learn any kind of lesson from the 70's and who only look ahead when they start to fail.
The thing is, as treekiller brought up, many of the Big 3 now have cars that are not dinosaurs and actually do have good mpg and good service records. But due to pushing and pushing and pushing the dinosaurs no one seems to give a damn about them.
Ever notice how much advertising you see on Japanese cars as compared to Japanese dinosaurs? Yet another marketing lesson the US automakers failed to attend class on.
I’m tired of working to bail everyone out of something I didn’t support.
In the end the economy is broke as hell and everything is set to fail.
Here is something all of us gearheads can identify with:
When our car starts having a problem that we can’t figure out what are we told not to do? To not just go and throw money at it to fix it.
I think the government needs to learn that.
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if you can only race me in a straight line then whats the point 
...91 SMF SCCA
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I see people out there spending money on the car to improve it … If you spend half that effort just working on your driving skills, making you and the car work together as a team, then you’ll go faster – period. To make the car go a second faster on the track takes a lot more energy and money than making yourself drive it one second faster.
– the late Tom Thrash SCCA Solo E Production