tesla
suppose we hadn't bailed out gm. it's not like people were going to stop driving cars. or stop buying them. and if a certain unprofitable, poorly run company hobbled by unfavorable contractual obligations wasn't around, what cars would we have bought? we spent $50 billion so we can keep buying the same piece of shit carbon burning crap we've been driving for 100 years. yeah a bunch of people would have lost their cushy gm jobs. but they'd have gotten new jobs building cars for whatever company replaced gm. suppose we had given that $50 billion to tesla at $22/share in 2009... we could have sold it this year at $220/share. which, lemme do the math here, instead of a $10 billion loss, would have been a $500 billion profit. and we'd all be driving teslas today. thanks obama.