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President Obama Making Comments On GM (GM) And Auto Companies

June 1, 2009 12:04 PM EDT
Currently, Obama is speaking about the auto companies and the General Motors (NYSE: GM) bankruptcy. Below are some of his comments from his speech.

  • Collapse of auto companies would have been devastating.
  • Auto companies faced crises that were decades in the making.
  • The Government is making these investments to protect our tax dollars.
  • The Government is acting as "reluctant shareholders."
  • U.S. Government has no interest in running GM.
  • Chrysler bankruptcy was completed in 31 days, experts were wrong.
  • Unsecured bondholders are getting an equitable outcome.
  • GM is much more complex than that of Chrysler.
  • We now have a credible GM plan full of promise.
  • "Viable, achievable" plan gives GM chance to rise again.
  • He thanked governments of Canada and Germany for helping out.
  • Obama added, he refused to let the auto companies become wards of the state.
  • He highlighted that the Chrysler-Fiat merger, saved tens of thousands of jobs.

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