[Hoot Gibson]

But, your personal tragedies didn't happen because of some big business that I support, unlike me. GM was ready to, via bankruptcy, until the government stopped it.

All I know is that you have boasted in the past of your financial holdings and now you are telling us that the source of that money was some sort of financial settlement. I am sorry for your loss but it does not validate your belief that taxpayers should have bailed out unions or forced GM to give 17.5 percent of GM to the UAW. Nothing in life is without its risks. Nobody has a right to somebody else's money to make them whole. Whatever the state of the UAW's pension and health funds were, taxpayers such as me played no part in creating those problems.

GM and Chrysler should have been allowed to go under at no expense to the federal government. Ford, which thrived without an Obama bail out, would have increased production and hired more American workers. Whatever part of GM that was worth saving, would have been bought by its competitors.

Maybe unions should stop pouring millions of dollars into the pockets of Democratic candidates and use those funds to bail out their own members.