Rattner Defends Bailout With Old Talking Points

Ford did not receive a government bailout. Not directly. It would have gone down the tubes along GM and Chrysler, if they would have been allowed to die, Steve Rattner, the head of the auto task force, told Bloomberg. Said Rattner: "Ford would have closed because it wouldn't have been able to get parts, because the parts industry in this country was in arguably worse shape than the assemblers." Rattner repeated another favorite talking point of bailout supporters, namely that the U.S. government was the only entity that could save the domestic automakers because no one, including banks that were dealing with their own financial crises, was willing to put private capital into GM and Chrysler at the beginning of 2009. But then, as the head of the taskforce, what should he say?     from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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