General Motors, Ford and Chrysler need how much? $25 billion?

I don’t think so. Not until executives for the Big 3 come back to reality, and take a big chunk of change out of their own pockets.

In the Nov. 22 Sun Journal, GM said it’s realistic the company may shut down by year’s end. Well, let the chips fall where they may. Maybe someone will buy the company and make it what it used to be.

The CEOs cannot make millions, then hold out a tin beggar’s cup to Congress.

Everyone must remember that GM and Ford have been making big money for decades. Chrysler was already bailed out once. (Remember the Aries K-cars? That’s all the military owned back in the 1980s.)

Maybe they need to look a little further ahead than the next fiscal quarter.

I say let them sink.

And I’ve owned GM products for 26 years.

If they do sink, don’t worry: All of the executives and retirees will be all set for quite a while. Everyone who worked there made good money while there, and in retirement.

Don’t get me wrong: I think people should be paid a good wage, absolutely. But an executive making millions? Then all three of them flying to Washington, D.C., on separate company jets to ask for $25 billion?

When it’s all said and done, they’ll get the money and be laughing in some resort in the Bahamas, eating shrimp and sipping scotch, saying, “I told you we’d get it.”

Toby Milliken, Lewiston