GMAC Billion Dollar Bailout
Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:01The free market system, or is it any more, with the government now the largest stockholder in GMAC. Here we go again with the government buying in to yet another major corporation, you may ask yourself how does this effect business and the stock market. Well go figure with the governments continued involvement in major auto makers and banks and financial companies the ripple effect will be felt coast to coast. You may ask yourself how can other companies compete with the federal government or the companies they are vested in, and if the government has selected companies to back is it really a free market any more or are we already becoming a socialist society under Obama. GMAC has received $13.5 billion so far and is looking to receive another $3 to $4 billion this time, wow, what are they thinking or are they really considering the implications of investing billions in another failing financial institution.
In an interview Adam Steer of Credit Sights questions why GMAC needs the money, as the losses GMAC is claiming are not from the automotive sector of the company rather from ResCap which is a failing home lending sector of the company. Steer suggest that GMAC cut ties with the home lender or put ResCap in bankruptcy rather than pouring billions into the failing company.
The CFO of the GMAC Robert Hull even stated they need to find a solution for ResCap as they are facing their eighth bad quarter as of November, while GMAC’s automotive sector is showing a profit. The question is why when ResCap has had eight failing quarters in a row is the government going to invest billions more to save a failing organization. An more to the point if the automotive sectors of GMAC are showing a profit, why are they not bailing out ResCap rather than putting their hand out to the US government and tax payers again. Could it be that the government is sitting there with an open check book and offering money to anyone that ask for it with not thought of the implications to the future of the country and our free market system or capitalist society.
Some have stated making a credit line open to GMAC would be smarter that continuing to give aid package after aid package, as we would be throwing less taxpayer money away at a time. In our so called free market system under the Obama administration the government is now the biggest owner of GMAC with a 35% stake in the company, go figure when the US government also owns aproximately 10% of General Motors as well.
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