It is not borrowed if we never had a chance to get it back.
The US taxpayer LOAN you speak of is not even listed as a debt in the companys bankruptcy paperwork. We should be at the top of the list to get paid before the cleaning company that mopped their floors.
The cleaning company will get a cut from the asset sale, but the taxpayers will not.
The fact is that LOAN was written as a grant that never had to be paid back.