For me, this comes back to college econ, supply/demand. If Apple is about to fail due to an unappealing product, are they bailed out? How about Circuit City? P&G? Increase sales, decrease costs. Ford and GM haven't done that. The incentive just isn't there for government to bail them out like they did the banks. Without banks, the cornerstone of our capitalist system of borrowing and investing capital fails.
America needs to reinvent itself as a haven of medicine, education and technology. This is our future. Not the Detroit 3.