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Message| (72)    It's no secret to anyone who has read this blog
on a regular basis that I've been pushing for GM to declare
bankruptcy for months now. The reason being that I felt that the
bailout and restructuring efforts were just prolonging the
inevitable, and because I believed that it was the fastest way
to separate the good parts of GM from the bad. While some may
see this as a dark chapter in GM's history, I personally feel
that it's really just the first step towards the company's
rebirth.  However now that the bankruptcy is moving forward the
question offered is: will GM be used to service the interests of
the various stakeholders in the company, or will they instead
work together and focus on what needs to be done to make the
company profitable again?  Just think about it: GM's problem as
a company was never its ability to sell cars, as for nearly all
of its history prior to the bankruptcy it always sold more cars
than anyone else in