It’s almost as though the Government sucks at directing economic production:

On Friday, General Motors announced that it will temporarily suspend production of the Chevy Volt and temporarily lay off 1,300 workers associated with the electric car. Three days prior to GM’s decision to halt production of the Volt, President Barack Obama spoke in Detroit to a cheering crowd at a United Auto Workers union event and declared that after his second term is finished in five years, he, too, will be buying a Chevy Volt.