Bush43 made one TARP loan to nine banks in Oct 2008. Bush43 had nothing to do with the bailout of GM and Chrysler. The Pontiac Brand (formerly a division of GM) went extinct because Obama forced GM to eliminate several car divisions that were not profitable before GM could receive their TARP bailout money.
Originally Posted by flghtr65
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in Oct. 2008 forced the nine largest US banks to take billions in TARP money, mostly in the form of non-voting preferred stock (not debt). All of it was eventually repaid. Paulson's Treasury staff also injected TARP money into hundreds of smaller US banks. The process started under Bush and continued under Obama. The initial TARP loans to GM and Chrysler were disbursed under Bush. Follow-up loans were made after Steven Rattner took over the auto industry bailout program for Obama.
Bush43 and Dick Cheney left a large mess for Obama clean up!!! It took a lot of money to fix the Banks, Wall Street and the Auto Industry. AIG alone received over 250 Billion dollars in TARP bailout money. Plus Bush43 handed to Obama in 2009 a budget that resulted a 1.5 Trillion dollar deficit. See the graph in post #12.
Originally Posted by flghtr65
Once again, all of the TARP money was eventually repaid. At the end of the day, the bailouts added nothing to the national debt. AIG received $182.3 billion in bailout money and paid back $205 billion, according to the New York Fed. Bush's original 2009 budget approved by Congress in June 2008 contained a (projected) deficit of only $407 billion. The recession's impact on tax revenues, combined with stimulus spending, blew out the deficit, not anything Bush did.