Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
I actually read about this ad in the freebie magazine "metro" on the metro today! In Sweden where I am at the moment.

The article said that it was hypocrisy to say that Chrysler symbolizes American entrepreneurialism when in fact, Chrysler was saved with American taxpayers money, in a ginormous bailout.

The article said that if anything, Chrysler and the bailout stifled American entrepreneurialism because the 250 million used to bail them out would have been spent on projects that are more in tune with the times...

What do I know though... I don't know whether it was right or wrong to bail out this company and I hope that those people who were out of work in Detroit get better lives now.

BTW - The commercial is removed!!! why would they stop people from watching their commercial.. how bizarre!!! So I still haven't seen the actual commercial.
The magazine might consider Chrysler and it's employees and all of it's suppliers ARE the taxpayers.

I don't know where they got the $250 million figure, but Chrysler received $12.5 billion in bailout money from the US government, most of which has been paid back. Sure Chrysler got a good deal when it's business was based on people borrowing money to buy a product maybe they couldn't really afford but then I'm not so sure the American government helping out an American company is such a bad idea.