So what do you think of the "big 3" auto manufacturers trying to get in on the $

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What do you think of the executives of the big three American auto manufacturers trying to get in on the bailout cash? I personally feel that it is absurd. They come hat in hand asking the government to reallocate $50 billion dollars of the $70 bank bailout cash to them instead of to the banks. Now it is widely known that they haven't even gotten the oversite committee for distributing the bank bailout funds appointed yet they have spent over 20 billion dollars of the money already. So there isn't even $50 billion to be had of those funds. Yet the auto manufacturers are asking for over 2/3 of money that wasn't even allocated to them to bail them out before they fail. I think their grifters who think that crying poverty will get them bailout money just like the banks (which is not a move that I approve of in the first place!) But I think that asking for over 2/3's of another industries monies is very very cheeky of them. Especioally when their premise for argument is that the banks are not lending funds and so they are not able to move the automobiles that they are overmanufacturing because they want all their money at onfce from the financeires who then have to wait to recoup their funds from the consumer. If the money was allowed to go to the banks so that they can return to "more normal lending" as they say the money is needed for, then the auto companies will be saved by the "trickle down" of those normal lending practices. Which have kept them paid in full and in business since the inception of car buying on credit.