David B. Livingstone of the North Star Writers Group has a column about the proposed General Motors “rescue.” It is a long and satisfying item and he proposes five points for consideration before Congress writes the check. I think you will agree with his sentiments.
1. Ownership of all physical assets, inclusive of factories and offices, should be transferred to the federal government and leased back to the firms on a for-profit basis;
2. A mandatory 10-year zero layoffs policy should be introduced;
3. Bailout funds should be in the form of a “mass transit Marshall plan.” The (former) automakers would be charged with re-engineering and retooling their operations for purposes of developing and implementing next-generation mass transit solutions, including high-speed rail;
4. The onset of the bailout program would mark the beginning of a mandatory 15-year phase-out of the manufacture of petroleum-consuming internal combustion engines;
5. Bailout recipients shall be legally precluded from any petition for bankruptcy protection.
Filed under: Passenger Rail Politics, Passenger Rail Transportatio Policy, United States High Speed Rail
Trains For America 
HA HA HA HA HA HA
If a CEO agreed to those terms he would, and should, be immediately fired.
Lay out some real terms.
Yeah, never in a million years. If that’s where the debate started and then compromised you might have something at the end. As it is Congress will ask for a 3% increase in mileage over 12 years with an “escape clause” in case it proves to be “too difficult”.