Now I'm no stock broker/dealer, investment advisor, BD agent or IA rep but I do know that special interest + Corporations + Government = Fascism. Now what kind of stock broker/dealer, investment advisor, BD agent or IA rep thought that UAW + GM + The Obama administration = Capitalism and thought that it would be a really good move for the government to "invest" in a "private" company? Not one I would let handle my money.
Govt to lose $14B of auto bailout funds
AP
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration said Wednesday that the government will lose about $14 billion in taxpayer funds from the bailout of the U.S. auto industry.
In a report from the president's National Economic Council, officials said that figure is down from the 60 percent the Treasury Department originally estimated the government would lose following its $80 billion bailout of Chrysler and General Motors in 2009.
"While we will not get back all of our investments in the industry, we will recover much more than most predicted, and far sooner," he wrote.
Obama will visit a Chrysler plant in Ohio Friday to tout highlight the company's success.
GM and Chrysler were on the verge of collapse in the final days of the Bush administration after Congress failed to approve an emergency loan package. The Bush administration gave the companies $17.4 billion in loans and required them to develop a restructuring plan by mid-February 2009.
Obama's administration pumped billions more into the carmakers later that spring but won concessions from industry stakeholders, allowing it to push GM and Chrysler through bankruptcy court in the summer of 2009.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110601/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_autos_2
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