I for one feel like I am about to get screwed by the Big Three US car companies. The government seems determined to develop all sorts of creative bailout packages to push the deficit even higher. The US system is (supposedly) based on capitalism and companies are fine with that as long as the money keeps rolling in (You don't hear the oil companies screaming for handouts, do you?). But as soon as companies start to loose billions of dollars, they start begging the US taxpayer for a bailout and lately the US government has been more than willing to oblige. Why is it OK that profits are kept in the private sector but losses must be subsidized?

A "Lemon" is a vehicle that continues to have a defect that substantially impairs its use, value, or safety. By loosely applying this definition to the car companies themselves, I would say that we have three lemons...