"Detroit's New Orleans-like loss of population received no telethons or FEMA assistance. America doesn't care about Detroit people." — Ray Wert, editor of the automotive website Jalopnik.com, apparently overlooking the $49.5 billion government bailout of General Motors in summer 2009. According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Treasury had recouped roughly $23 billion of that by January 2011.