Reply #1: That picture is actually of imports, not from the Big Three

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What does that tell you?

Automakers from around the world are in trouble, asking for bailouts left and right.

So that means we should be the only country to let their automakers fail, thereby helping foreign makers grab larger market shares? China would just LOVE to be able to buy the remnants of say GM for the cheap, considering the only thing holding back their car industry is a 50% higher defect rate. So lets just slide ever farther into a trade defecit, and let China become more self-sufficient so they no longer need our consumerism. Once they no longer need our purchasing to run push their economy, guess what -- They won't lend us any more money. Game over, time to print paper like its goin' out of style.