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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 2109865" data-attributes="member: 7900">From the first link of my post with the links:"The government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler is one of the most polarizing issues of the presidential campaign. Many Americans wonder why $62 billion in tax dollars went to keeping the two automakers afloat in 2008 and 2009. There's little doubt the bailout saved the automakers and huge numbers of jobs. But there's also little chance the government will get all its money back.Taxpayers are out about $1 billion on the Chrysler bailout. GM stock is selling for less than half the price needed for the government to recover all of its nearly $50 billion investment."As for that press release from Fiat:"Fiat and the United States Department of the Treasury (UST) also today completed Fiats purchase of the 6% fully diluted ownership interest held in Chrysler by UST for a price of US$ 500 million, as contemplated by the agreements entered into in early June."Perhaps I am having a reading comprehension problem, but please explain that "6% fully diluted ownership interest" and how $500 million is going to cover the $1 billion that the first story says the government will be out.  Or, is that $1 billion a phantom number that ignores the debt owed to the government?  After all, even you agree that the government isn't getting all of its money back.</blockquote>