Not so quick!
http://freebeacon.com/general-motors-is-alive-for-now/(snip)
A backroom deal hatched by General Motors during the auto bailout to fulfill the Obama administration’s demand for a quick bankruptcy could be reversed, draining the automaker of nearly all of its cash on hand and leaving it in worse shape than it was when it collapsed in 2009.
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GM’s stock has fallen nearly 40 percent since its record-setting IPO in 2010 after dismal European sales. In addition to owing U.S. taxpayers $27 billion, its lending arm, ResCap, a subsidiary of GM, has filed for bankruptcy after making risky gambles on the housing market.
“We have Pandora’s Box on our hands,†said a financial analyst. “I guess that’s the nicest term I can find for clusterf—k.â€
It's a complicated issue and needs to be read to understand the predicament and the consequences.