All those who tout trickle-down economics, consider this... It may be easy to get irritated by multi-billion dollar bailouts, executive bonuses and seeming excesses, but many Colorado companies feel a bailout it the lesser of two evils when they consider the ripple effect.

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The people running the US auto companies are officious bumblers, the products stink, and the unions are a parasitic drain on the business. And yet the Government seems content to throw billions of dollars at the problem.

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The Big Three Car makers again go to congress. Interestingly, it is GM and Chrysler that really need help, and not Ford. Or the American branches of Japanese car makers.

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As a result, for every UAW member working at a U.S. car maker today, three retirees collect benefits; at GM, the ratio is 4.6 to one.

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When the leaders of the three Detroit auto companies and the United Automobile Workers union travel to Washington to make their case for a federal bailout, they will be flying into stiff headwinds of public opinion.

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