Washington Post writer Warren Brown suggests today one potential reason why the American auto industry is being put through the ringer in its pursuit of financial assistance...
"There is a feeling in this country - apparent in the often condescending, dismissive way Detroit's automobile companies have been treated on Capitol Hill - that people who work with their hands and the companies that employ them are inferior to those who work with their minds and plow profit from information. How else to explain the clearly disparate treatment given to companies such as Citigroup and General Motors?"