Please help me understand why taxpayers should bail out General Motors and Chrysler. Members of the United Autoworkers for dozens of years fought with management, did not care about building a quality product, struck time and time again for ridiculous wages and benefits, and now want taxpayers to bail them out.

How about taking a lesson from Toyota and Honda? I do not see these companies asking for bailouts. Unlike the UAW, their workers and management act as a team and build affordable, high-quality, high-mileage, world-class products without the UAW. The UAW should be eliminated and jobs should be offered to all people with fair wages and benefits.

Dan Dickinson

Westfield