The Big 3 are doomed unless we have some sort of national health care plan and force the UAW into it, otherwise no amount of money is going to save them because it will keep the money factory going for the UAW and little else. If Obama truly wants to keep his campaign promise here is his chance. He can force the Big 3 to provide the seed money for this huge new government supervision and then force all the other union health care funds to pony up as well. The force the insurance companies to compete nationally by making them offer a minimum plan for a set price. If you want more you pay more the seed money is for the poor who can’t or won’t pay. Then everyone gets to play along through their companies, which will have allow every employee access to the minimum plans and can work with the employee for upgrades. Would it be a huge pain in the butt, sure. Would it allow US companies to start competing globally again, maybe.

If we want things to get better then we have to change certain fundamentals in the new global economy. American manufacturing must not be burdened with health care for life for people that are no longer adding to the bottom line because we are the only ones in the industrial world that doesn’t have some sort of national health care. Am I a socialist, no but rather a realist. If you want to be competitive in the world market then you have to cut costs for companies to do business here. The non-union companies pay good wages and provide health care, but aren’t expected to do so for life. That is the sole reason that the non-union plants are doing well, while the Big 3 are headed for the toilet. If you have better ideas lets hear them because this isn’t going to be solved by Washington anytime soon.