The Government Keeps Helping People Buy Failing Cold Stone Creamerys

Bloomberg Businessweek reports on friendly fascism here in America:

Would you loan someone money to buy a Cold Stone Creamery franchise if you knew that more than a quarter of those loans default? If you’re the U.S. government, the answer is yes.

Over the last decade, franchisees in the Cold Stone Creamery ice cream chain defaulted on 29 percent of working-capital loans backed by the government, costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, according to an analysis of Small Business Administration data published by the Wall Street Journal last week.

Rent-seeking gone wild.