I can't blame the UAW workers from looking after their interests first. If Baseball's Manny Ramirez and Football's Tyrell Owens sell their labor at the best rate they can get, Joe SixPack at the UAW should have the same privilege.

The problem is that there is no incentive to buy the product, price notwithstanding. Until that issue is resolved, it does not matter how much money is being spent on the Big-3, if in the end the only thing that happens is that several million autos are jammed into storage areas, only to become so much scrap because they aren't bought.

If this was the dairy industry (people not buying milk, ice cream and butter) instead of the auto industry, how would we try to solve the problem? Wouldn't we try to make the product(s) more palatable or would we just fund continued manufacture of product(s) going into inventory and eventual disposal?