The issue focused on the following : A few years back a few years after the last great US car market crash, the General Motors had to go to the government and get a bailout. The government was not as kind to the company as the public was and to be fair to the government, the government was not in the best of places to be a good business for the long run. The General Motors was in the early stages of a long and difficult period of change and the public was not in the best of places