Going by your links Ford got a loan under a DOE program, which several other auto companies got including GM and Toyota. I already knew about this, the program was started before the bailouts. That isn't a bailout, as I said before if it was loans to GM, no one would care. Ford didn't walk away from it's debt, GM did. That is the part that has many people including myself upset at GM. GM was treated different than any company in the history of our country. They were allowed to walk away with very little in terms of sacrifice. The people who made the sacrifice were the stock holders and the people who held GM's bonds and of course the US tax payer.
As I said before GM should have been auctioned off and the bond holders at least should have been covered. Instead the government did something it has never done before.
Now we want to change the meaning of bailout, or to lump loans into bailout? Kinda like "It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is".
