Since this is a tractor forum, lets look at the history of farm equipment makers-no government bailouts of IH, Oliver, White, Minneapolis-Moline, Allis-Chalmers, etc., when the ag industry began consolidating. Same thing here-let them fail. There will be a certain amount of demand for US made products, and if the pie is sliced two ways instead of three,(or not sliced at all, if only Ford survives) fixed costs per unit are lowered, problem solved. As for supplier overlap and the domino effect, if a company currently supplies Ford and GM and GM goes away, Ford should need more product.Again, there is only a fixed amount of product to be sold, and we need to consolidate production to the point that number makes money for the survivors-anything else is money down a rathole. Not going to be pretty, but necessary.
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