How can they think of taking time off. They are as much to blame as the CEO's of the bank's and auto company's. They are the ones that where setting the rules (or lace of) these company's operate under. We must stabilize the economy now, not next week. Working people and there fellow retirees are waiting for an answer.

I am really annoyed that the Dems choose not to settle this issue now. I don't buy all this nonsense that they waiting for "a plan" from Detroit that shows their business model going forward. Did they ask AIG for that when they handed out money to them?

the Auto Workers, all they ever wanted to do was work, pay their rent, drive a rusty car and take a retirement.
We can't solve the economy right now, but we can help keep people working; that should be the most important of objectives. Financials are buying back most of their own stocks, and doing so with borrowed money from the Gov., the dividends, if there are any, will be on borrowed money, what there is will go to the shareholder, but the shareholders are who? Who gets a dividend if there is one, the company, where does it goe from there? Listen, the stock market and the financials are quickly being owned by the govt via the TARPs. There is no market and we are in this for the long haul, layoffs will be catastrophic by March, even without the Auto layoffs. The key to our economy is to keep as many people working for as long as possible until the market is healed. But it cannot be healed on the backs of American Workers. I salute Levin for doing what may not have been popular to others but crucial to the livelihood of his constituents.