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  • Maybe It Should Be Called the Chevrolet 'Vote' (Good piece)

    03/09/2012 11:40:22 AM PST · by jazusamo · 18 replies · 1+ views
    Forbes ^ | March 8, 2012 | Patrick Michaels
    The Chevrolet Volt is everything that is wrong with Washington on four wheels, and investors (that’s you and me) should be furious. Wrong #1 : The Volt should be re-named the Vote. Who can forget that Super Bowl ad, with the pseudo-assembly line of Volts rolling through Hamtramck, Michigan, and the voice overlay that “this isn’t the car we wanted to build; it’s the car America had to build…from the heart of Detroit to the help [sic] of the country.” How true—corporate welfare on wheels, buying votes in a state vital to the President’s re-election. There is simply no...