"President Obama's auto task force pressed General Motors and Chrysler to close scores of dealerships without adequately considering the jobs that would be lost or having a firm idea of the cost savings that would be achieved, an audit of the process has concluded," The New York Times reported in 2010, based on an audit. "The report … estimated that tens of thousands of jobs were lost as a result." The Washington Examiner's Conn Carroll also observes that Obama bailed out union pensions, while neglecting non-union workers, and decided not to follow the law by paying certain creditors — and still didn't save money. "All told Obama's violations of bankruptcy law made the bailout of GM and Chrysler $26.5 billion more expensive than it had to be," Carroll explained recently. "And according to Obama's own Treasury Department, taxpayers stand to lose $23 billion if GM stock were sold today." Even some of Obama's own colleagues disagree that the economy has been saved or that the worst is over.