US congressmen are not idiots, if Big 3 can be saved by just a short term loan, they will do it. But the fear is that these firms will go bust sooner or later even with the bailout, and taking billions of taxpayers' money with them

第一，借钱是不是钓鱼，先搞来一百亿，然后再钓5百亿。第二，是不是用大家的钱，给债权人解套，然后就关门大吉。

车厂的确出问题了，那其他行业怎么办？其他很多公司也面临同样的问题。救此不救彼，有失公平。难道车厂就高人一等？其他行业就是后娘养的？如果说车厂大，影响大，那其他行业加起来，难道规模比车厂小？车厂倒闭造成的失业人数，难道比已经或即将要失业的人还要多？难道车厂的工人就比其他行业的要优先？

举个例子，总理和一个小市民同时受伤了，送进医院，要做手术，而医院资源缺乏，只能先救一个。先救谁？从结果来看，毫无疑问，总理出问题了，影响比小市民要大，但这个影响是不应该纳入医生的考虑范围的。医生要考虑的是谁更严重一些，谁能等谁不能等，谁先进院，等等，而不是谁是大人物。人生来是公平的。

当然，生活中会有很多不公平的东西。所以，如果政府要救车厂的话（就象医生要先救总理），俺也不会惊讶。

如果是某位大富翁用私房钱救，没问题，可现在是要动用纳税人的钱啊！为什么要广大纳税人（部分人即将要失业）来为车厂的经营失误负责？

市场经济，适者生存。不适者始终会被淘汰。过得了初一，过不了十五。车厂的困境，有其本身更深层次的原因。暂时的资金短缺，只是问题的表现而已，不是喂钱下去就能起死回生并繁荣昌盛的。

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注意这位老兄的发言：

I'm an accountant and I just took a gander at GM's balance sheet. They have about 25 billion in current assets and about 65 billion in current liabilities. When I was back in accounting school a hundred or so years ago, those numbers meant you were bankrupt. Now, assuming they get 14 billion today, that means they would have 39 billion in current assets and 65 billion in current liabilities. My guess is that even in today's accounting schools, those numbers mean you are bankrupt.

Their net worth is negative 60 billion or so. That's a pretty big problem. I would say it's hopeless, but I'm a notorious pessimist. On the other hand, if you look at the balance sheet of the US, net worth is negative 10 trillion and rising rapidly. And if you count the US's off balance sheet debt, you're looking at about 60 trillion. So by comparison, GM is in fairly good shape. Ironic that an entity that is 60 trillion in the hole is talking about bailing out one that is only 60 billion in the hole.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net