We should have just let the US fail and let some other country take over.
1) Other countries tried *cough Japan*
2) it was a world-wide economic down-turn & because of the death toll from WWI, few countries were in a position to wage war.
3) Like other countries, we were considering major political upheaval. Remember the Hollywood Blacklist & McCarthyism? These came about because our country was considering allowing another form of government to take over.
We should have fired the president, closed congress
We fired Hoover (who became the scape goat), and hired Roosevelt. The 1930 & 1932 elections rotated congress from Republican to Democratic in the house and senate respectively.
Instead the "Government" provied jobs and other ways for people to survive. So that means the Tax payers had to provide the money for those new jobs and services...
It's called socialism, and it didn't work. The "New Deal" packaged several new ideas (almost all socialist) to stimulate the ecomomy. It was a monumental failure, and did nothing to halt the stagnation of the ecomomy - let alone stimulate it. "The Second New Deal" was an even bigger failure, and was creating HUGE national debt. It was nearly the nail in our nations coffin - the only thing that saved us was WWII & nature started co-operating again (no more dust bowl = farmers could produce crops again).
A lot of what happen was good and some things were bad.
Such as?
At least they tried and didn't give up and are still a country today.
Much of their "trying" actually did more to hurt the economy, and arguably would have led to the collapse of the Republic we have today.
If we let the Big 3 fail we will be handing the country over to another. We will be solely dependent on foreign produced/controlled vehicles.
We're already dependent on foreign produced goods. It's a world economy. Your vehicle likely has parts from a dozen different countries. Even foreign vehicles (especially Toyota's) are made largely from US raw materials.
Where is your evidence of this? I think there are other possibilities. Someone could get some private funding together, buy out GM or Ford, re-tool them & hire a better management / engineering team. Or, maybe someone else comes in and starts over from the ground up? In any case - we've been bailing out the US auto industry since the 70's. They continue to produce crap vehicles that don't sell. It's simple really, if you reward an outcome, you're more likely to get that same outcome. If you subsidize inferior engineering & marketing, you'll tend to get more of it. Innovation & the free market nearly always wins. It's just plain better equipped to succeed.