mr. kusinich. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, members of the committee. i want you to know, attorney general, i'm sorry i'm late to this hearing, but my wife and i were at the prayer breakfast this morning, and i k

mr. kusinich, you and i agree on a lot of things and we're entitled to our own opinions but we're not entitled to our own facts. the truth of the matter is the government has been involved in this far deeper than they ever should have been to begin with. mr. akerson knows how to run gm. he has a history of running great companies. he does not need somebody who has never run a company to tell him how to spend the money and we're going to shower this on you. i want to tell you and you want to throw money, if you want to throw $7,500 in a tax incentive and in pennsylvania throw another $3,500 in a tax incentive and talk about rate of sale and day supply, when it's your money that's on the shelf and it's your product that has to turn because it's your dollars and you're damn careful about how you put that money. this is taxpayer money being used. i'm not going to yield because there is such a disconnect in this town with the way the real world works. general motors does not need the help of the taxpayers to subsidize their cars. do you want to move a market? throw $7500 on a cruise. not from gener