Update: Someone commented that the US side of GM wouldn't spend money in Europe to fix Opel. Um, GM is the sum of it's parts and GM is based in the US, so....
The German workers are not happy; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8343934.stm
Yep, that is your tax dollars (from the US), going over to Europe to clean up GM's mess of a company, Opel. It's only 3 billion...
http://www.freep.com/article/20091103/BUSINESS01/91103062/1319/GM-to-restructure-Opel-scraps-sale-to-Magna