Is it as bad in grants as it is in contracts as far as not compliance with getting rid of the bad players?
I did not vote for TARP. I did not vote for the bailout.
The Pension Guaranty Fund, which was supposed to help you, did not help you.
Well, most of this effort has been to seek some justice in the pension, but the healthcare is actually--you have not been able to pursue.
The losses were staggering, or the indebtedness of the healthcare, a huge portion of that.
The topping up of the unionized retirees' pensions was about $1 billion, but the UAW got $30 billion in perks from the bailout.
So they used taxpayer money also to underwrite that.
The total amount that the taxpayers are going to end up paying, are you familiar with it? I heard the estimate is $17 to $20?
I have never seen an era in which they have denied at least the rightful committees of Congress information.
So, basically a political decision, and just excluding a class which happened to be the salaried workers.
Actually, they got shafted even though they had been part of the principal parent company.