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Letter to the Editor

Jan. 14, 2014

Letter to the editor: GM bailout critic should acknowledge its benefits

Re: "General Motors: Success, Redefined," Jan. 7. By Martin A. Mattes

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

Jonathan Michaels' guest column, "General Motors: Success, Redefined" (Jan. 7), addresses no legal issues but merely presents the author's laissez faire critique of the crucial policy choices made by two presidential administrations at critical points of threatened economic meltdown in late 2008 and early 2009. Michaels fails to recognize that GM shareholders and perhaps even some of its executives paid the piper for their comp...

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