Biden: We saved Detroit

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He is delusional. Here's the rest of the story:

Columnist Michelle Malkin points out, "GM still owes nearly $30 billion of the $50 billion it received, and its lending arm still owes nearly $15 billion of the more than $17 billion it received." According to National Legal and Policy Center's Mark Modica, that doesn't include foreign investment: "In addition to U.S. taxpayers anteing up, Canada put in over $10 billion, and GM was relieved of about $28 billion of bondholder obligations while UAW claims were protected. That's an improvement of almost $90 billion to the balance sheet, and the company still lags the competition." In fact, GM could file for bankruptcy again.
Just how bad are sales? National Review's Kevin D. Williamson sums it up: "It is true that sales have improved at U.S. makers -- but those increases have far lagged the increases seen by overseas competitors such as Volkswagen and Kia. GM's August sales are up about 10 percent over last year; Kia's are up 21 percent. Volkswagen is up 37 percent. Hell, Porsche is up 40 percent. ... The Democrats are not exactly telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but when it comes to the auto bailout." Some recovery!
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Avatar sully16 -
#1
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...ROTFLMAO, JOE YOUR A HOOT, SAVED Detroit did you, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Avatar MADDOG10 -
#2
Saved Detroit..., Joe is old lame ducks adviser and two others here...!
Avatar Piaceri -
#3
Pure Michigan! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHIM_QcJLHo
Avatar tiparker119 -
#4
The American people need to be saved from the "BFD" Biden....what a disgrace to have someone like Biden in the VP position...!!!
Avatar GASMETERGUY -
#5
And even when the true facts emerge, people still believe Obama/Biden saved Detroit. Go figure.
Avatar Coin Toss -
#6
Here's an update on GM:

79% of GM’s sales last month were government purchases
July 12th, 2012

Remember how Obama keeps telling us how he saved GM, and how our economy is getting better, it seems the car company he bought is being saved by Govt employees using our tax money to buy new cars.79% of GM’s sales last month were government purchases.
GM’s sales figures for last month were the best since 2008 , up 16% for the month of June. YIPPEE! Well, wait just a minute. It seems that those rosy sales figures are due primarily to a 79% increase in fleet sales to the U.S. government in June. That’s right. Our tax dollars are being used to pump up GM’s sales figures ahead of next month’s quarterly report so that Dear Leader can point to Government Motors as a huge success. The incestuous relationship between GM, the UAW and the Regime has never been more glaringly apparent. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. GM is unsustainable without government subsidies and will ultimately go bust again, taking billions of taxpayer dollars down with it.
We bailed out General Motors to the tune of $50 billion. $30 billion of this is effectively a loss, mostly sunk into fattening the United Auto Workers union—fierce Obama supporters—while the actual bondholders were shown the elevator shaft.

Meanwhile, as News Busters reports, “We the Taxpayers are still stuck holding 500+ million shares of GM stock. Which we need to sell at $53 per share just to break even. The shares debuted, post-bankruptcy, at $33 per share and are currently trading at just over $20 per. Meaning we’ll lose about $15 billion.”
But it gets better. Despite the overwhelming negatives, the tiny bright spot of positive June sales numbers is being heralded by Obama and the leftist press as proof the auto bailout was a “success.”   Obama is now campaigning on the “success” of – the government buying cars from…the government’s car company. With our money.
Americanvision says That’s like you setting up a lemonade stand for your kids. You buy them the lemons, sugar, cups and pitchers – and then buy most of the lemonade yourself.
The pressure is on Government Motors to appear financially strong as this may be the last earnings report before November elections and sets the stage for how “successful” GM is. One of GM’s past tricks to help fudge earnings numbers has been to stuff truck inventory channels. Old habits die hard at GM. According to a Bloomberg report, “GM said inventory of its full-size pickups, which will be refreshed next year, climbed to 238,194 at the end of June; a 135 days’ supply, up from 116 days at the end of May.” 135 days’ supply is huge, the accepted norm is a 60 day supply. The trick here is that GM records revenue when vehicles go into the dealership.














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Avatar rdgrnr -
#7
Biden should have to go live in Detroit with his fellow Democrats.
I hear you can get a house for $500.
Thanks for savin' Detroit, Dopey Joe!
It's a perfect example of what Democrat rule for decades does to a city.
I think you may have to go save Chicago next, Dopey Joe.
Democrats been runnin' that hell-hole a long time now too.

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