But then the government would be forced to backtrack on the multi billion dollar investment it made in big auto companies to keep manufacturing jobs from flocking to the US (nationalizing would cause us to compete with them and undermine the support provided).
I still think this choice was a mistake, but voters gonna voter on single issue politics.
Enjoy the brain drain America. Canada, China, and the EU are all grateful for your self imposed sacrifice of smart people to prop up stupid people.