OK, here is the REAL reason the "neo-cons" wanted the American auto makers to fail.

The bottom line: They want to eliminate the thousands of United Auto Worker jobs. Why, I hope you ask? Union jobs set the level of wages and benefits for ALL jobs, locally and nationally. Including compensation for lower, or line management positions. The "neo-cons"(heavy on the "con") and the other elitist denizens of "Cheneyland" have been "laboring" (ironic, right?) for DECADES to break the backs of the unions. Executives, of course, set their own exorbitant salaries and perks, regardless of the performance of their companies. Their only imperative: Completely Unfettered Profit-Taking. And Greed. NOT having to provide fair wages, health care benefits, paid vacations and worker protections, thereby, making OBSCENE profits, is and will always be, the driving force behind these uber elitist, "cons" and their minions efforts to strip all worker protections and benefits. C'mon, think about it...It makes sense doesn't it? Do you think corporations just give these benefits to employees out of the goodness of their hearts? Hmm? Well, if unions go, so will that, "goodness." Workers and retired workers who support these neo-fascists, you have been had. Sadly, the time when a man's word was his bond, has passed. Your leaders will lie to you, just like those fascists of, "old Europe."