I reluctantly, pragmatically agree with a bailout of the auto industry, for reasons previously discussed, but this is (bitterly) funny.
You probably thought it was smart to buy a foreign import of superior quality, with better mileage and resale value. Maybe you even thought years of market share loss might prod us into rethinking our process and redesigning our products with better quality in mind. But you forgot one thing: we spend a shitload of money on lobbyists. So now you’re out $25 billion, plus the cost of your Subaru. Maybe next time you’ll buy American like a real man. Either way, we’re cool.
Maybe Congress should have offered to bail them out, but only if they’d let their little fingers be cut off — with one more finger for each return visit.
(via BoingBoing, Doyce and Kate)
Raise money with lotteries to determine who gets to cut off the next finger.
Good Lord, we could probably finance the whole national debt that way … though we might have to extend it to toes as well.