Reported 2 hours before the end of debate (20:10 GMT) in congress:
11bn euro (£9.2bn) plan 1.1% of the Spain's Jorge Luis Rodriguez Zapatero 0.8bn euros
No sign on their keyboards No grammar necessary Jorge, who? Well they got 3 of 4 right... ´0.8bn euros´, must be.... ummm.... ´0.0008 tn euros´?
The auto industry rescue stinks, but it´s a necessary compromise since they are foreign companies that have been planning and threatening lay-offs for months, even though the plants are profitable. Thanks, Nissan, GM-Opel, et al. The auto industry covers 300K jobs and it´s too late to divert any without a huge blowback for people and unions. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.