This article touches a nerve that is getting more and more exposed in me.

I think that many liberals have unknowingly becoming part of a new "elite" class. When I was growing up in the Midwest there was a flourishing middle class that the poor could aspire to. When many liberals moved into white collar jobs, it became very easy to lose all understanding of them. When the automakers made big cars it became sort of "cool" to make fun of them for damaging the environment. It went way too far, and has helped really destroy this country. I also think the anti-union forces really encouraged the trashing. It has been alarmingly successful. Now few people in the private sector have pensions or even health care. Almost no job of any kind is safe from outsourcing. The Asians do not practice fee trade. They plan, manipulate, control. We have been taken for fools. When will the majoritiy realize it?

The attitude that people have toward the automakers demonstrates some very disturbing trends in our country.

The only way that workers anywhere got any kind of decent life was to stick together. A lot of liberal media types are starting to sound like a new aristocracy to me. In the past, reporters would automatically have taken the workers side. High wages? How much do you and the liberal elite make? This country was based on the middle class, that blue collar jobs with decent wages should be available.

Liberals decided that the Big 3 were not environmentalists. But don't millions of middle class employees qualify as an endangered species to protect? The Big 3 were not falling apart for a long time, until free trade introduced foreign cars with government paid health care. Japan has a closed market. They use it to perfect quality. We have an open market. Not surprisingly, it is now being flooded with slave labor, no environmental law products.

All workers in the U.S. are now in grave danger. Not just blue collar workers. What makes you think we should throw away manufacturing people? It is very high tech. That is how a competitive edge is kept. Why should we throw away 2 million jobs? The U.S. carmakers were trashed by business interests trying to destroy the unions. I own a GM car and it is great.

Do you still have healthcare, and sick days? Watch out, soon business will decide your labor is too expensive!

I agree we should think big. The job you save will be your own.

The auto industry has vast ties everywhere in the country and the world. If one Big 3 goes under all of it could unravel. We are talking major folks. Too major. The political leadership recognizes that and are not going to let that happen

The auto industry built our middle class. I did not know how many jobs are still affected. The industry has been cutting jobs and closing plants and suppliers for years. That means we have already lost millions of jobs and billions of dollars permanently from our country even before this. The industry has been laboring against competitors that are heavily supported for foreign governments while here, the industry was all taken for granted. A lot of the negative stereotypes you hear are ridiculously inaccurate and outdated. Middle Class jobs--it's a huge one.

The foreign transplants do provide some jobs and they have been good for the South, but they replace industries that were entirely American owned. They are not new jobs to the country. They provide some assembly jobs etc. The most important jobs like engineering etc. are going to be held by the home country. Our industries have all the best jobs, research etc and use more American parts. Plus all the profits stay here instead of going to Japan etc. Over time the transplants cause a net loss of jobs and profits to the country. The all-important thing is who does the research and thus holds the newest and best technology. Also who has loyalty to the country. The transplants could move to China in a minute where they have slave labor and no environmental regulation. The precedent has been set, that the company should go to the lower cost place. Can you imagine if there was a war and we couldn't even make our own vehicles. A super power, and a power strong enough to protect itself from foreign exploitation needs a strong industrial base of its own. We are in danger of losing that.Obama see this I think.

Have you even noticed that there are very few private sector industries that are unionized any more? Is that why wages and benefits for the average person are cliff diving?

We are in danger of creating a liberal aristocracy.

Unions gained these millions of good jobs through generations of struggle. Hunger, injury, death, massive violence. A decent workplace isn't free, someone had to earn it for you.

Millions of consumers own American cars and are happy. I am one. I wouldn't drive a foreign car if you gave it to me and paid me $5,000.00 to drive it. GM sold more cars last year than Toyota.

These naive attitudes pose a GRAVE threat to all American workers.

Also, if there is another world war call Toyota to protect you.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THIS INFO IS DESPERATELY NEEDED. BRAVO.

Bravo Glenn. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. In a sea of cowardice, and group think, you emerge.

Thank you Glen. You are a brave and true patriot, and the survival of this country will depend on people like you.

This is the best coverage I have seen so far. Notice he admitted that the failure of leadership extended to WASHINGTON.

thanks for a great story