The Hill Discovers Victims Only Matter When They're Corporations
While The Hill's contributors are still seeking 'justice' for those allegedly harmed by the GM bailout, one would be hard-pressed to find similar op-eds detailing the chronic underfunding of social programs that were cut to generate the bailout funds themselves. The article, framing the bailout as a burden on 'taxpayer-funded' ventures, conveniently omits mention of the fact that the U.S. Treasury
reported a net profit of $10.6 billion from the GM bailout, while millions of actual Americans faced foreclosures, job losses, and economic instability that bailout money could have addressed. It's fascinating how certain 'victims' resonate more deeply in Washington's echo chambers. When The Hill calls for justice 17 years later for a corporate maneuver that ended up profitable for the government,
one might wonder why the suffering of say, Flint, Michigan's residents—whose water was poisoned under systemic governmental neglect—doesn't warrant similar, perennial outrage and calls for 'justice' from the same platforms. Perhaps real people are just less photogenic than balance sheets.