As Vice President Joe Biden likes to put it, bin Laden is dead yet GM is still alive, but the fact is that taxpayers are still on the hook for $25 billion of the auto bailout.  During the DNC, it was emphasized that the American automobile industry initially cost $80 billion or about $30,000 per automotive worker, The Washington Post reported. GM and its former financing firm still owe the government $25 billion.

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