The White House confirmed yesterday that the $8 billion in "bridge loans" the U.S. taxpayer has given to Chrysler over the past six months, including $4 billion in bankruptcy financing, won't be paid back. Taxpayers also won't be getting a big slug of Chrysler stock in exchange.
Instead, the wreckage of Chrysler will be divided up among Fiat, Chrysler's unions, and Chrysler's debtholders. Which means that the taxpayers' $8 billion was just a gift to these three consitituencies.
We don't know about you, but we can think of a few dozen charities that we'd rather have given that $8 billion to than Chrysler's debtholders, Chrysler's unions, and Fiat.
Is the White House going to explain this one, or are we just supposed to ignore it?
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