it's in their interest to support the industry.
The Gov of any nation does not have the responsibility of supporting the market.
The market can take care of itself.
If Banks made a bad decisions in lending money and they go bust; is their problem not anybody to bail them out.
When the Gov intervenes in the Economy always ends up with a bunch of rules that nobody can follow, bureaucracy runs amok and the people that are supposed to help never get the help.
The world is a business and has been since the man crawled out of the slime.
Is not moved by ideologies.
Think for a minute. Why people have a job?
Money, and that is the way we all survive.
In that case the Gov does not support you, is the Business that hired you is supporting you.
What the Gov does is take a slice of the action; kind of a protection money, just to keep you safe.
How much politicians get paid? I bet they cannot afford what they have on that salary.
They get elected to manipulate the laws.
Why would you contribute to their campaign?
Simple, there is a monetary gain on it. Tax break, new contracts, fix a road so your car does not break, cheaper "something", etc...
Politics and Laws they all revolve around the World's Business System.
Holden is going pretty much the way Pontiac went.
Union Reps, Politicians, Officials they all have a piece of the action. They all have one goal and that is to make money.
The unions gave tons of money to the current administration and the payback was to bail them out?
That was a money grab scam.
GM was not bankrupt; nobody goes bankrupt overnight.
Was as simple as I pay you to win, you pay me back with interest and you keep a cut of that.
To make some of that money back and bring the Stocks higher they need to cut cost.
Make a Global Platform; just like in the 70s and Badge Engineer all of it.
Or make it much easier. Close Holden and call it GM Australia, like GM Korea (Daewoo).
Now they can call the shots from overseas.
All these problems, if think for a minute and give this question...
What is the Monetary Gain on what they do?
You will be surprised the answer that you are going to get.