From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

Preserving Wall Street, the auto industry, and the income gap.

Hello again, I'm Warren Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. Congress has granted $350 billion to Wall Street, and nobody really

knows where the money has gone. President Bush will loan $17 billion to GM and Chrysler,

but only with tough conditions, and demands that union contracts be redrawn. Would U.S. auto

companies be better off in bankruptcy? What about investment banks that can't be redrawn? Would U.S. auto companies be better off in bankruptcy?

What about investment banks that can't repay their clients?

Why do unionized workers have to sacrifice benefits

when Wall Street is still paying bonuses worth tens of millions of dollars?

On reporters' notebook later on,

will eight years of White House history disappear?

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Hello again, Mormon Al-Ne back with To the Point. Everybody understands the hourly wage contracts. The United

Arter Workers agreed to with GM and Chrysler, but only Wall Street knows how or why investment

bankers get bonuses worth tens of millions of dollars. Are Washington's bailouts punishing transparency,

rewarding stealth, and preserving the income gap? On reporter's notebook, White House emails and

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