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I get annoyed when I hear that we hafta jump in and bail out the auto industry cause it's "American." Really? Then why are 50% of the cars we buy foreign?

Maybe because the auto industry has been run terribly. Don't keep insisting on cranking out 10-ton hummers bigger than a school bus and then bitch at me for not shelling out $80k for it cause you put some fins on it and call it "American." Everything within a 10-foot radius of me right now was probably not made in America. Why does the auto industry get to trip my guilt?

And if they can, can't the hot dog companies? Hot dogs are American; if they start fucking up, should we bail out hot dogs? How bout when Major League Baseball's bubble bursts, are we gonna pass the hat around for baseball players? What's more American than baseball?

I'm sure there are valid reasons you can give me for bailing out these companies. But doing it simply cause they're more "American" allows them to perpetuate what they've been doing, which has led to all this in the first place. Which is "American" for "see in a few years for a another check."