text: You simply ignore the potential severe consequences of letting the auto industry fail in your effort to grind your political ax.  I can understand why conservatives want to live in the past, when all they had to do was slag Obama.
  
  "U.S. Declares Bank and Auto Bailouts Over, and Profitable
  
  Although the overall bailout efforts turned a profit, the auto rescue did not. With Friday’s announcement, taxpayers were left with a $9.5 billion loss. Most of that came from General Motors, which paid back about $39 billion of the $49.5 billion invested.
  
  But with auto sales booming and the Big Three Detroit automakers recovered, the Obama administration now points to the Detroit rescue as one of its biggest triumphs.
  
  'The American auto industry is on track for its strongest year since 2005,” Mr. Obama said. “And we’ve created about half a million new jobs in the auto industry alone.'"
  https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/20/business/us-signals-end-of-bailouts-of-automakers-and-wall-street.html