   Saving Detroit  Politicians, business and the unions all want
a bail-out of Ford and General Motors. That would be a mistake
See article  Readers' comments    As a long-suffering
shareholder of a Detroit car company, I agree with your opinion
on the automakers. Let the intransigent UAW members collect
their extended unemployment benefits from the depleted insurance
funds of Michigan and Ohio, let Medicare assume the medical
insurance of employees and retirees, and let the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corp. wrestle with their pension claims. CAFE fuel and
safety standards can be imposed on whatever automobiles
Americans can afford to import with their depreciating dollars.
No longer will the returns that should have been reinvested in
new products and markets or gone to shareholders be siphoned off
for other purposes.Acapitalist  SRU Poli Guy  I could not have
said it any better myself. Let the firms fail. The reason the
Democratic Congress is so interested in a bailout is that it
will save the last bastion of