Some Truth from Pravda

In case you missed this, an appropriate warning on the day of GM's demise, Pravda marvels at America's quick descent into Marxism. Former Gov. Mitt Romney says give GM back to the people. Obama Inc. takes over a bigger chunk of America. Throwing good money after bad. Is GM sunk? And a former Soviet block car czar tells a tale, in part:

The bureaucrats and the union that ran the Trabant factory made the car smaller and boxier, to give it a more proletarian look. To reduce production costs, they cut down on the size of the original, already small DKW engine, and they replaced the metal body with one made of plastic-covered cardboard. What rolled off the assembly line was a kind of horseless carriage that roared like a lawn mower and polluted the air worse than a whole city block full of big Western cars.

After German reunification, the plucky little "Trabi" that East Germans used to wait 10 years to buy became an embarrassment, and its production was stopped. Germany's junkyards are now piled high with Trabants, which cannot be recycled because burning their plastic-covered cardboard bodies would release poisonous dioxins. German scientists are now trying to develop a bacterium to devour the cardboard-and-plastic body.

Our collective future

P.S. Apropos, the Chicago-Hawaii old communist network, mentors to Barack Obama. More old radical connections here.