No one has ever presented any numbers which show that taking money from all of our collective pockets to prop up any company is better than letting the companies resolve their problems on their own. The problem is still there - unsold inventory which is just increasing without restriction.

In the end, it would seem cheaper to pay the companies NOT to build.

Anyway, these companies are going to continue heading down the drain. Nothing has really changed. Debt may have been restructured and a brand name or two sold off or retired, but the market for the product remains as it was. Without a market inspired to buy the product, this was just placing a bandaid on an amputated limb.

The same "quality" products will soon be coming from China and India anyway and at a 70% unit cost. What happens then? The consumer will go for the "best buy" no matter what the politicians (driving their Lexus, BMW, Mercedes, Audi or Prius) say.