Big Bad Car Czar and the Little Red Riding Hood of the Automakers

News from Bloomberg: U.S. May Give Car Czar Power to Force Bankruptcy, Levin Says:

The U.S. Treasury may adopt a plan that would let a car czar or the Treasury Secretary force General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC into bankruptcy if the automakers don’t show they can survive without government aid, a U.S. senator said.

The concept and wording of "forcing a company into bankruptcy by not giving it government aid" is an amazing demonstration of marketing a thought pattern. 

In a free market, the government has a very limited space and function. If some company does horrible business, it forces itself into bankruptcy. By not intervening in the free market and not transfering public money into it, the government isn't forcing that company into bankruptcy. Bloomberg's phrasing makes it sound that it's all the government's fault if Chrysler goes bust. Which is not true at all. The reality is that the automobile companies have done poor job and they deserve to go bankrupt.

Ted and Nick both have one Mars bar. Ted eats his right away, while Nick saves his candy for later. Ted is a greedy little brat and wants more. He starts to beg Nick to share half of his Mars bar. Nick says no.

Is Nick forcing Ted into starvation?