pknopp
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Govt lost money on stock not the loan. What you fail to admit….from your link
A distinction with no difference. Shuffling cards. Taxpayers lost billions bailing out the auto companies.
The government lost money, but far less than initially expected when the program was launched in 2009. What's more, the program prevented GM and Chrysler from going out of business — an event most economists and automotive analysts said would have caused the entire industry to collapse and thrown the Midwest into a deep depression.
GM and Chrysler would have never went out of business. Stock holders would have simply lost their asses as it is supposed to be.
Investments with no chance of ever losing are nothing more than a scam perpetrated on the taxpayers.