directing some of these business decisions, even to the point, shannon, where the treasury department was helping general motors write their press releases and craft their public statements. this is corruption to the extreme. shannon: they say the deal with the pensions was they were trying to get out of the bankruptcy situation as quickly as possible. is it just a matter of numbers on paper and this was a quicker way to get them out of the hole? >> the government is now in a position of advising a private company about how they should deal with their workers. notice too i keep getting back to the union question, because the people who lost their pensions in this equation were nonunion workers. the uaw, united autoworkers unions, those workers perfectly fine. remember the entire objective of the obama administration in doing this bail out, even though they talked about keeping the manufacturing base in america, and preserving that, preserving the auto industry in america, this was about protecting the union workers. why? because they are a huge