[Superman]

GM went out of business because management had its head up its a$$. Blame the unions all you want, but it was not responsible for management decision-making. When a company goes tits-up, it is management's fault. Pure and very very simple. Unless you live in fantasy land.

And when management is booted out and other companies take over their assets, those worker will hopefully have skilled decision-makers to work for. Judges do nobody any favors when they make herculean efforts to keep a dead company from dying.

I bought a new VW Rabbit in 1984. That was our family car for many years. I rebuilt the alternator once, thought it didn't need it. I replaced the water pump a couple of times, at least. I replaced the starter. The odometer quit working several years before I sold it, and it said about 250K miles at selling time. In other words, this car had a cool 350,000 miles on it. Here's the part I wouldn't even believe if I didn't know for a fact it was true:

That car's engine and transmission had never been removed or separated. It still had the factory clutch disk in it.

American cars don't take the second hundred thousand miles nearly as gracefully as the first. And forget about the third or fourth.