Well, I supported watching it crash and burn mostly because comments like "Too big to Fail" strike me more as a challenge, same as "The world's be around for 4 billion years, do you really think mankind can destroy it?" or "Man was not meant to fly"

For the moment anyway the big hit to GM is coming at least in part because of the hit in consumer confidence deriving from the Volt apparently being more flammable than the vehicles its designed to replace that operate on the principle of burning highly flammable fuels. Which depending on how the investigation goes is either going to be ironic the way the unsinkable Titanic was ironic or ironic the way Asbestos, which saved many people from burning to death and cut heating bills, killed so many people with cancer. Anyway, I would say our tactic of trying to fix the car industry problem by throwing money at it was a really bad idea, but throwing money at problems has been something of a proud American tradition and I am a big believer in preserving our cultural traditions and heritage.