Actually Share Owners Also Absorb big losses

Goof article, all true except it is wrong to suggest that owners do not face losses. Bombardier's own balance sheet at June 30 shows it has accumulated retained owners losses of $4.7 billion! (page 47 of Q2 report). That's MORE than the $4.1 government aid mentioned for the last 50 years. 

When these too-big-to-fail companies are subsidized, it is always employees, (especially executives and Board members) and the local economies that benefit. But often the share owners lose everything in restructurings. Bombardier's accumulated profits from day 1 (July 10, 1942) appears to me to be a large negative number. Imagine that! What would the founder think? Did he set out to create jobs and not profits?

Has the Bombardier / Beaudoin family treated outside share owners as complete fools who subsidized the family? I ask the question. At least the tax payers got the jobs for the economy. What have the non family share owners got out of it?