Once again tonight ABC News website posts an article from the Lansing Journal about the record profits at the Detroit 3.  And, once again, I feel the need to vent my frustration to anyone willing to listen -- or not.  Does anybody else besides me see the stupidity in all this?  After all, this is OUR hard earned money we're talking about.  Did any of us give permission for this?


This announcement only reinforces my commitment to NOT purchase GM and Chrysler products. As a small supplier to the auto industry, we are FREQUENTLY bent over for give-backs and price reductions, to the point where we are not able to provide a fair market wage or full benefits to our employees, not to mention a bonus! As an American taxpayer, these companies took my personal funds to bail themselves out from their inept management, without my permission. NOW they have the audacity to pay out bonuses BEFORE they pay me back?? At my house, we pay our bills first. I have no gripe with the autoworkers who earn their wages. My gripe is with GM, Chrysler and the Obama administration. Shame on you -- the American people deserve their own bonus -- their bailout tax money returned WITH interest!