Douglas Korthof

How To Save the Big 3 Automakers

Labor had nothing to do with GM's problems. It's easy to blame the engine room crew when the ship goes aground. Ignoring the drunken lookout and passed-out captain. It's the top brass that cause the problem, of course.

GM destroyed the EV1: there should be NO BAILOUT unless GM uses the Taxpayer money to resume production of the EV1.

Lutz, who claims it can't be done, needs to be fired; Wagoner, who created the problem, needs to be prosecuted; and the Board of Directors needs to be brought up on charges.

If the auto industry is a matter of national security, and takes Taxpayer money to fix, then the white-collar criminals who destroyed that industry should pay the penalty due to those who endanger our national security.

West of the Pecos, we call those folks "traitors".

It's not as if they didn't have warnings: Ross Perot tried to fix GM decades ago, and Kirk Kerkorian just recently bid $31/share for a chance to fix GM -- but Wagoner and the Board refused to listen to common sense.

GM jailed cash customers, instead of selling them the EV1: GM top brass now should be jailed and prosecuted for destroying the lives of the workers and for endangering the national security.