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We lose $10 BILLION with a "B" and merrily go on our way, instead of getting it back from the company, which is now turning a healthy profit.

I'd like a deal like that for myself...

1 posted on 12/09/2013 7:41:49 PM PST by Innovative
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I would love to see the money trial on this bit of world class grifting. Someone made a lot of money on our backs.


2 posted on 12/09/2013 7:46:12 PM PST by Fzob (Jesus + anything = nothing, Jesus + nothing = everything)
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Wait....they made $4 billion + and we have to eat better than $10 billion?

The least they could have done is use those profits to cover our losses.

Some gratitude. If we hadn’t bailed them out they’d be dead.

Thnx GM.....


4 posted on 12/09/2013 7:51:13 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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The same fella that told us we could keep our plan told us we the people made a profit on this deal. At least he’s consistent.


6 posted on 12/09/2013 7:52:24 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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We lose $10 BILLION with a "B" and merrily go on our way, instead of getting it back from the company, which is now turning a healthy profit.

Not to mention the five billion in stimulus funds given to them. And also, wasn't some of the loan money forgiven?

7 posted on 12/09/2013 7:53:48 PM PST by oldbrowser ("From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" .....Marx)
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Other than dealing happy smoke, Bolivian marching powder and poppers, has this guy EVER made a profit?!


9 posted on 12/09/2013 8:02:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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Did you think a community organizer could turn a profit?
This was nothing more than “spreading the wealth” to the unions at the expense of bondholders and taxpayers.


11 posted on 12/09/2013 8:12:14 PM PST by kik5150
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If I were a Union member or liberal politician, I’d be laughing and crapping on everyone too.......


16 posted on 12/09/2013 8:42:24 PM PST by Tzimisce
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[The sale leaves taxpayers short about $10 billion of the funds that the Treasury sank into the automaker in 2009.]

Add $45.4 billion to that $10 billion loss to the treasury. That's the tax credit GM was granted by the IRS under the TARP Act. And though GM was allowed to shed all their old liabilities—including chemically contaminated plant sites—they were allowed to keep some of the old GM’s business losses to gain a further tax advantage. Any profit posted by GM should be viewed in light of their historic tax avoidance bonanza.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704462704575590642149103202

17 posted on 12/09/2013 9:07:59 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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Remember when Whitacre and Obama claimed the “taxpayers” would MAKE 4-8 billion dollars on this deal, and how the left media said anyone that didn’t agree was a RACIST that hated America, and wanted GM to fail because we had a black President?


18 posted on 12/09/2013 9:12:57 PM PST by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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its good to be king, or one of his squires.....

so they get to continue they're huge pensions and benefits and bonuses and I get to keep paying taxes and working.....

what a country....

I still will not buy a new or even newer GM product....

19 posted on 12/09/2013 9:15:01 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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We need to look on the bright side.

Look at all the union jobs that were saved!

22 posted on 12/09/2013 9:33:22 PM PST by Gritty (The emperor has hipster garb, but underneath heÂ’s just another Commissar Squaresville - Mark Steyn)
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bkmk


23 posted on 12/09/2013 9:48:35 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44 ('Hey citizen, what's in YOUR closet?')
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Yea but that is only 1% of a Trillion so what’s the big deal?
You must be one of those evil Tea people.

/s


25 posted on 12/09/2013 10:42:34 PM PST by mowowie
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This paints a good picture of progressive government as money manager and why social security is a myth.


26 posted on 12/10/2013 1:16:44 AM PST by clearcarbon
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A 40 year old volunteer retard told me obama was the greatest president ever because GM paid us back. And that was 3 three years ago.


29 posted on 12/10/2013 9:56:57 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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