Chavezrolet?
That’s Yugo Chavezrolet!
Two Wheels on my Wagoner [Mark Steyn]
Incidentally, the government overhaul of GM is a useful shorthand for where were heading:
The first quid pro quo for the government giving you money (or investing, as President Obama and David Brooks say) is that it gets to regulate your behavior. Not just who sits on your board or (see Sarkozy last week) where your factory has to be. When the government pays for your health care, it reserves the right to deny (as in parts of Britain) heart disease treatment for smokers or hip replacement for the obese. Why be surprised? When the states paying for your health, your lifestyle directly impacts its investment.
The next stage is that, having gotten you used to having your behavior regulated, the state advances to approving not just what you do but what youre allowed to read, see, hear, think: See the Canadian Content regulations up north, and the enforcers of the human rights commissions. Or Britains recent criminalization of homophobic jokes.
Youd be surprised how painlessly and smoothly once-free peoples slip from government investing to government control.