General Oversight

So I just finished watching the second Transformers movie on Blu-Ray, "Revenge of the Fallen".
I enjoyed the first one. And even the second was entertaining. Yeah, it was reviewed poorly and most will complain about plot holes, but the sequel was entertaining. I liked it.
What are you expecting anyway? It's a film about robots that have an exclusive deal with General Motors.

Yep, the autobots can only transform into marvels of humanoid engineering if what they scan is derived from the great minds at GM.
Chevy (those controversial, illiterate ghetto twins and Bumblebee), GMC (Ironhide), even Saturn (the Astra used to escape from evil robots at the college) were all pushed by the film.

This exclusivity (all-)sparked a train of thought...maybe we pay taxes to keep GM in business because they threw all their money into the movie and forgot about that secret to capitalistic success...innovation.
What's that? Transformers 2 was still a success?
Well that's the the sticking point isn't it?
...But I'm convinced there is an explanation.
While Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg realized about halfway through the film that they had a bunch of compost in between their fingers, they also knew there was a perfect solution: throw in a few more scenes with Megan Fox in a low-cut top running from danger in slow-motion.

General Motors had no such hottie to salvage their incompetence, resulting in any tax-paying U.S. citizen dumb enough to purchase a new GM vehicle not only paying for the (eventual) pink slip and right to drive it off the lot, but also putting up the dough for its production.

I don't know what the big deal is though...I always return to Safeway and pay (in full, with a huge markup) for my plate of pasta after I go grocery shopping (at Safeway) for sausage, cheese tortellini, peppers, tomato sauce, salad, and bread.
That's...the American way...?