President Obama has made the auto bailout the centerpiece of his argument for re-election. He claims that it rescued the industry from collapse and saved a million jobs or more.

There's one problem: That story isn't true. If anything, the Obama auto bailout left Chrysler and GM in worse shape than they would have been otherwise, while funneling over $25 billion in taxpayer dollars to the United Autoworkers labor union.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/the-myth-of-auto-bailout-jobs/article/2512555


Also: what brought on this Obama vs Bush, comparison ?

And do not take into account anything like population growth or other important factors. Here is the real story, the unemployment rate...