True, but you never forget the person who is directly responsible for causing you to loose your job. I'm trying not to take a stand on this as I don't want to cause a fight, but this might be a different situation because these icons are different from banks because people don't have the emotional connection with banks like they do with the Big Three. If who ever is elected makes a decision to go through with this and it ends up killing Chrysler, I will hold that against the person when I vote in 2012 and don't doubt for one minuet that I'm not serious and that I won't remember because I'm still holding a grudge against Bob Eaton for selling Chrysler out to Daimler in the first place and that was about ten years ago.

I think that if GM wants this to happen, they need to have a full proposal on what exactly they are planning to do in great detail and have pre-conditions that if GM starts to go back on their word, the deal is off. There needs to be many conditions in this. They need to allow at least Dodge and Jeep survive. They need to keep most of their successful line up. They need to keep Chrysler's technology that can help them both (Hemi, Dual-clutch transmissions, Phoenix engines, etc.). They need to set this up in a way where they are willing to make compromises with Chrysler by dropping some of their models and technology for Chryslers (dropping the High Feature engine eventually, dropping the Northstar, dropping the G8, etc) so then this doesn't become "The Marriage Arranged by Satan the sequel!"

The best thing is if GM & Chrysler could with this arrangement try to treat Chrysler as a separate company that will occasionally share technology and platforms when it is logical.