Reverse Robin-Hood

A car company whose investors include Al Gore, the Silicon Valley venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, and the government of Qatar has received a $529 million loan from the U.S. government, the Wall Street Journal reports, in an example of what one might call the "reverse Robin-Hood" -- take from middle-class taxpayers, give to the rich --- that is becoming a hallmark of the Obama administration's alternative energy policies (not to mention the bank bailouts). Here's another example, and another.