Officials concede difficulty tracking rescue funds

Okay, fair enough, it *is* difficult to track the money, particularly since so little real oversight was built into the program in the first place. But some things aren't hard to track. Was Crysler's full-page ad of thanks to the American people in national newspapers -- which charge dearly for such ads -- an appropriate way to spend our tax money? I think not, to the point I would urge the regulators to *insist* that anyone involved in making the decision to purchase the ads be forced either to pay back the costs out of their own pockets or to demand they fired, backing up the demand that no further funds will be forthcoming until that one or the other is done. Not allowed to avoid repayment or to be allowed to resign. Cough up the money, or accept being axed. Sure, the amount spent was statistically insignificant, just as the cost of the 3 Big 3 chiefs flying to Washington in the first place was. But both are stupid.