A Car Buyer's Worst Nightmare

[David Blanchard]

The U.S. Government, in its infinitesimal wisdom, has decided that the best thing it can do for us in this economic malaise is to step in and start taking over our banks, our insurance companies, our healthcare system, and perhaps most troubling of all, our manufacturers. I woke up the other night in a cold, damp sweat, trying to shake off the jitters of a horrible nightmare: I dreamt I was sitting behind the wheel of a new GM (for Government Motors) car designed by a committee of career politicians. Can you even imagine such a monstrosity?

Seems I'm not the only one who's had trouble sleeping lately. The editors of The Weekly Standard have also started pondering what exactly turning GM over to Washington would actually mean for the average consumer. With tongue only partially in cheek, the Standard offers a look at what a GM warranty will look like in the Age of Obama.

[rbrooku]

Yah, I can imagine such a monstrosity. I drive behind them on the highway everyday, they are the vehicles GM has been making for years. Why do you think Detroit is in such trouble to begin with? Harvard MBAs always fall back on committees to tell them what to make, it's part of the syndrome of Harvard MBAs (kind of generic for modern business school trained American management).

Government, on the other hand, usually goes along with some visionary that sells them on their vision and we get some great vehicles. Henry Ford sold his version of capitalism to the gub'mint and we got some great vehicles, Porsche sold his ideas to Hitler and we got some great vehicles and so on. So relax, go back to sleep and dream that we actually get a Government Motors...the nightmare is what we have been living.