J-HALEY wrote:
I suggest you all read the article the answer is in there! The short answer is George is right it is LIBERAL PROBAMMA accounting and HELL NO they haven't paid it back. Lets put it this way GM has paid back about as much as Solyndra did! The Liberal Media won't report on that though! They will just keep feeding YOU "Merica" hateing (left that e for you Jimmy) DUMBPHUKS the news "you want to hear" lies and all. They know most of you are too LAZY to do the research to GET TO THE TRUTH! Ya'll just want to live in your little Cumbaya world smokin your dope and buttfocking one another 
In all fairness, I didn't read the article by Forbes. I lost my trust in most mass media outlets, especially magazines. There's no citations, much like the mass media, or we get handed a set of facts that are incomplete and paint a slanted picture of any and every topic through lies of omission.
I generally prefer to read independent media sites, but often those tend to lean either right or left and bias eventually comes out.
Back to the subject- I did attempt to google facts on the GM bailout / payback, and discovered that the internet is plagued with massive amounts of what can only be called "consipracy theories" about the GM loan, I saw numbers that ranged everywhere from $2b to $122b that GM allegedly still owes. I find it amusing that they can owe $122b on a $25b loan, but that sounds more like a wall street loan than a guv loan.
Anyways, after 5 pages of nonsense, some of which was the classic Fox, CNN, MSNBC venom, which also all had vastly different versions of the "truth" and numbers, I just gave up.
Personally I've yet to find a single news site that genuinely takes a non-biased approach to the news and just delivers verifyable facts and additionally cites them- ALternet.org sometimes has decent articles, but is clearly left-leaning. Since they just bundle articles from various sources and independent journalists, I guess it's to be expected.
I saw a sign on facebook that really hit the nail on the head-
"NOT Democrat, NOT Republican. I'm an AMERICAN and I want MY country back".
Perfectly sums me up.