[cobra bill]

All of those competing car companies that are not paying as much for labor, have a distinct advantage, all of those countries have, I know this is a bad word, but I'm going to say it any way's SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE! we in this country for some strange reason think that everything has to be for profit, we didn't have this problem before Reagan started playing with Voodoo economics, and decided that healthcare should be for profit, as well as education, and it's been spiraling out of control ever since.
If not for the cost of healthcare, the salaries would be comparable, Oh and it's a loan, not a bail out! the biggest reason we were able to work our way out from the great depression was we had a manufacturing base in this country, we do not anymore, the auto industries is the last of what was the greatest industrial nation on the planet, if we lose that we will suffer the consequences in immeasurable ways, in WWII we used the auto plants to build our war machine, how will we do it in the future, ask Toyota too?