Then the rats will impose tariffs. The rats will make a truce with the foreign auto makers. The rats will force them to substantially increase labor costs. The rats will provide assurance that the foreign auto makers can pass the additional costs to the consumer.
Bring back the Trabbie!
This was socialized transportation at it’s finest. First, it was a three-cylinder (gotta mix gas and oil, like a lawnmower) 2-cycle engine, droppped in the finest body, though not by Fisher, constructed of compressed wool and cardboard. The waiting list (yes... there was a waiting list) was long enough for inter-generational strategery. Usually when a child was born it was a good time to apply. Some years later, word would come down “pick up your car”; payment was due in full which usually meant borrowing from friends and family because the car would be sold to another party without fast payment.
Auto insurance was unknown as well if not illegal. I’m not sure how that worked out. It’s always been a mystery to me on the near complete absence of anti-communists/socialists/collectivists (from countries who know better now) in the popular culture and news media. Reagan once said something like “A socialist is someone who has read Marx, a capitalist is somebody who has read, and understands, Marx...”