[TheRealVille]

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.

What don't you understand here? Nobody forced GM to give the UAW 17.5 percent. It was payment for money that GM had already taken from the UAW as part of their retirement package. It would be just exactly like if you worked for me and I took money out of your check to go into a retirement fund. When my business got in trouble, I agreed to give you a percentage of my company as payoff for that debt I owed you.