According to Ben Stein:

Still, the Obama team and the Democrats have this one right: The taxpayers just have to save Detroit.

Since the "Big Three" are today engines of wealth destruction, the government must penalize the productive and the successful to subsidize even more losses and failures by the dinosaur UAW and its three zombie firms.

We are in an economic tailspin. We cannot allow the roughly three million workers connected to the Big Three auto industry to fall into the ranks of the unemployed. It is possible that this nightmare could push the oncoming recession into being a Depression, something we definitely do not want to ever again experience.

Oh, and the feds might want to invade even more countries and kill another million foreigners.

Plus, we need a powerful domestic motor industry for defense purposes, to be able to convert to making tanks and military trucks if they had to....

(Thanks to Gary North)