Opposition to the bailout is bringing back to the surface the worst of the conservative economic thought that got America and the world into this mess in the first place. The opposition of the Federal Reserve and Treasury to hands-on intervention meant that they were slow to understand that merely ring-fencing the commercial banks could not save the financial system.
反对对救助汽车业的势力正在重弹保守经济思想的最糟粕的一部分，正是这些思维，才使得美国和世界最初陷入了这个烂摊子。美联储和财政部反对着手干预，这显示了他们对于“仅仅保护商业银行是不能拯救金融体系的”这一点上理解得太慢。现在，他们未能理解汽车业三大巨头在金融上的重要性。