[imported_Jiraiya]

I think it was the mortgage companies and banks giving out credit when they shouldn't have is responsible. Now massive defaults and spiking interests are gonna make everyone tuck away their worthless dollars. Soon we'll be carting them to the bread store and giving it all away for a piece of bread. Let's buy up some more private companies. The government is in essence a service provider/business, but they're gonna inch closer every decade to socialism with this crap. Companies need to tank in order for others to rise. I hate these bailouts and I'm so glad the auto one failed. The UAW needs to cut their standards or they won't have any place to work.

Look what bad management and selfishness gets you. **** unions.

Yeah it seems like an attempt to nationalise everything doesnt it?

http://www.corporations.org/system/
http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html

I found it very interesting that 3 auto corporations more economically powerful then the majority of countries in the world actually had the balls to ask for a bailout :/
And those figures are from 2000, I could make an educated guess and say they certainly have not fallen any in the rankings since then.