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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 1027189" data-attributes="member: 25159">Does everyone remember when Obama said &quot;it wont cost taxpayers a dime&quot;????&nbsp; Does the loony left remember that?&nbsp; Does it upset the loony left that their Messiah lied?&nbsp; Will the lamestream media report? Here is more proof that we got screwed bailing out GM:The Wall Street Journal released a report today, which indicated that the U.S. Treasury Department is unwilling to sell off its stake in General Motors, because to do so now would lead to a very large loss on the investment for the government.GM proposed the buyback plan to the Treasury Department, earlier this year.The Treasury currently holds a 26.5-percent stake in GM, or roughly 500 million shares. WSJ reported Friday that the government would stand to lose about $15 billion if it sold all of its GM stock for the roughly $24 the shares now command. Further, the share price would need to $53 before the Treasury would be able to break even on its investment in the automaker. Will it ever get to 53 bucks???? The newspaper did report that the Treasury might be willing to sell off its GM assets if the share price was in the $30-range. So then we would only loose 10 billion...what a deal!!!<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/17/wsj-feds-turned-down-gm-request-to-sell-its-remaining-sh/" target="_blank">WSJ: Feds turned down GM request to sell its remaining shares [w/video]</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lue C Fur, post: 1027189, member: 25159"] [COLOR=#0000CD]Does everyone remember when Obama said "it wont cost taxpayers a dime"???? Does the loony left remember that? Does it upset the loony left that their Messiah lied? Will the lamestream media report? Here is more proof that we got screwed bailing out GM: [/COLOR][I]The Wall Street Journal[/I] released a report today, which indicated that the U.S. Treasury Department is unwilling to sell off its stake in General Motors, because to do so now would lead to a very large loss on the investment for the government. GM proposed the buyback plan to the Treasury Department, earlier this year. The Treasury currently holds a 26.5-percent stake in GM, or roughly 500 million shares. WSJ reported Friday that the government would stand to lose about $15 billion if it sold all of its GM stock for the roughly $24 the shares now command. Further, the share price would need to $53 before the Treasury would be able to break even on its investment in the automaker. [COLOR=#0000cd]Will it ever get to 53 bucks???? [/COLOR] The newspaper did report that the Treasury might be willing to sell off its GM assets if the share price was in the $30-range. [COLOR=#0000CD]So then we would only loose 10 billion...what a deal!!![/COLOR] [url=http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/17/wsj-feds-turned-down-gm-request-to-sell-its-remaining-sh/]WSJ: Feds turned down GM request to sell its remaining shares [w/video][/url] [/QUOTE]

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