Right now, some of the corporations are begging the state for money to help them survive.
Yeah and coincidentally, it happens to be currently the ones who have ignored their customers' wishes and continued in their attempts to appeal to our bling sense ( and yes, we are suckers in many ways for shiny, new, cool stuff), instead of manufacturing high quality, efficient cars that make sense and that we can afford. They could still have made their huge profits and offered the consumers a decent product!
Look how many "patriotic American people" have bought imported foreign cars in the past thirty years.