About jobs in China, a very daunting article fromt the NY Times... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/bu...dle-class.html
About the Volt, the cost is very high for the amount of usability you get from it. And also the fact I don't buy a V1.0 of anything. Let it be out for a year and shake the bugs out.
I don't have a problem with the US gov't spending the money for development. The technology has come a long long way. But I do have a really big problem with that investment getting shipped to jobs overseas.