I woke up yesterday morning and read the headline GM may go bankrupt. Excuse me, what did I just read? The first time I heard this I actually laughed at how ridiculous it sounded. Unfortunately, this has become a reality that we must seriously understand. This is a company that I have watched and loved since childhood. Come on, remember the old school Camaro or the Trans Am and the legendary Corvette? The Monte Carlo SS, biggest NASCAR race winner ever? The Blazer, Tahoe, Silverado, Avalanche, Suburban and, of course, Cadillac convertibles and sedans; this is General Freeking Motors, for crying out loud!

Let’s not let this company go bankrupt, or let this legendary brand disappear. A bankruptcy would be yet another blow to its ability to sell cars. Eventually the negative media needs to butt out and we need to see cars move. The frenzy of sensationalist media around a GM bankruptcy would cripple GM’s ability to sell cars.

As you look around our country we begin to realize just how regionalized this country has become. So many people rip on Detroit, the whole midwest and the big three with no mercy. Its as if people have dreamed up this idea that a GM bankruptcy will not affect them and it is indeed a dream to think those thoughts. Well, I’m sorry if I am in the minority of people that not only care about our American automotive heritage, but live for it! I love American cars and trucks. Heck, I love cars, period. Since I have been a little boy I have loved seeing the new cars that Motown pumps out. I love seeing that new model truck and the ever so slight curves on the hood that a company tweaks in a given model change year. I love American Cars and I love GM!

Oh, how quickly we forget just how philanthropic this company has been. GM has literally been one of the most philanthropic companies in the history of the world. They have single handedly kept community non-profits alive. They have sponsored cancer causes, AIDS causes and they have fed people all around the world. Now, all of a sudden, in a moment where the whole country is locked up in total fear thanks to our sensationalist media, we want to abandon this company? I’m sorry, but I will go down swinging before I sit back and watch this happen.

The thought of not driving my Silverado into my family’s deer camp and not seeing GMC trucks in the drive of our deer camp makes me sad. The thought of life without GM makes me sad. It should make our whole country sad, but apparently we have all lost our minds. We have obviously forgotten what this company has done for us in America and how many of our fellow Americans rely on GM.

I know there are many who say that we should allow GM to go bankrupt to get the UAW and their outrageous contracts off of the Company's back. Some even say that we should allow GM to go out of business, period. I say, "No way, GM must rise again!" Surely nobody could be that out of touch with society, decency and the patriotic spirit that would always protect what is important to America. We must force our elected representatives to get the government out of the car makers' way. Ditch the NHTSA, CARB, bureaucratic regulations and idiotic, "feel good" laws passed to protect people from themselves and let GM (Ford and Chrysler, too!) build the cars we want to buy, without interference. Absent government intervention, the U.S. auto makers could kick their foreign competitions' butts. Have we become so regionalized that we have forgotten how important this company is to us?