No doubt they had problems. My point was that they weren't necessarily "this company should be liquidated" problems, they were "this company needs to restructu

No doubt they had problems. My point was that they weren't necessarily "this company should be liquidated" problems, they were "this company needs to restructure its debt obligations and rethink its strategy" problems. GM retains its position as the world's #2 car maker by volume, behind Toyota, and is profitable again. It's going to die some day, but probably has a lot of life (and thus economic contribution) left in it. Sometimes governments step in to prevent the "creative destruction" of the market to destroy its own citizenry. The open question is where the limit should be.