Posted on 09/09/2009 5:14:42 AM PDT by bestintxas
Taxpayers face losses on a significant portion of the $81 billion in government aid provided to the auto industry, an oversight panel said in a report to be released Wednesday.
The Congressional Oversight Panel did not provide an estimate of the projected loss in its latest monthly report on the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. But it said most of the $23 billion initially provided to General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC late last year is unlikely to be repaid.
"I think they drove a very hard bargain," said Elizabeth Warren, the panel's chairwoman and a law professor at Harvard University, referring to the Obama administration's Treasury Department. "But it may not be enough."
The prospect of recovering the government's assistance to GM and Chrysler is heavily dependent on shares of the two companies rising to unprecedented levels, the report said. The government owns 10 percent of Chrysler and 61 percent of GM. The two companies are currently private but are expected to issue stock, in GM's case by next year.
The shares "will have to appreciate sharply" for taxpayers to get their money back, the report said.
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EXACTLY!
“This should be splashed all over the news today.”
And if it were a Republican administration that did this it would be.
Yes, including by RINOs who, of course, will remain cloister nun silent on this.
BTTT!
The article said that it was the Bush administration that provided the bailout. I thought that happened under Obama’s watch, but I may be wrong. I remember the big 3 CEO’s appearing before some committee in December.
It illustrates the by now commonplace, shameful and criminal negligence of the MSM that we should even wonder if a fiasco of this magnitude will make one night's news splash in this country.
If any Conservative politician in America would even suggest a political/foreign policy/economic/military ‘fix’ with one one millionth of the potential for failure that the Cash for Clunkers idea suggested right from the beginning, he'd be howled out of town by the Liberal know-nothings who have set themselves up as the first and final arbiters for all that is wrong with America.
At what point did the party with a perfect record for non-stop and wholesale professional malfeasance, intellectual banality and the countless personal misdemeanors of its 'representatives' become the go-to group for the resolution of ANYTHING??????????????????????????????????????
In fairness, that item led the morning news on our local commie news station.
It is. It’s the headliner on the Comcast home page. I was presently surprised when I logged in this morning.
Presently = pleasantly. LOL - need coffee.
This has been obvious since the bankruptcy. If you calculated the stock price necessary to equal the amount of money the USG had put in..it was higher than the stock price of GM- EVER. The only question now is how much more the USG will need to put in to keep it afloat. The Health care bill has more money for Union health care..that needs to be added in as well.
The next thing that will happen is that the Federal Govt and the USPS will be forced to buy thousands of “Voltswagens” to subsidize GM. The care won’t sell otherwise.
Well-stated BTTT!
It WAS a Republican (Bush) administration that did this.
I'm sure that will be a mess. But it's Bush, not Obama, who's responsible for the fiasco referred to in the article.
3catsanadog wrote:
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It was in late November or early December. Remember, the Obama administration started January 20, although there was that whole “Office of the President Elect” period from the election until 1-20-2009.
I could check the roll call votes from the Senate for that period if you wish. Here's what I remember.
Then, in late February or early March, after firing the CEO at GM, Our Supreme Leader, His Obama-ness tossed some additional billions on the fire and gave GM and Chrysler a 30 day deadline to come up with more acceptable plans for survival or “packaged bankruptcy.”
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