"...  a subsidy... is a continuously operating cost break awarded to some private enterprise ... "   {facepalm}   You are substantiating, in spades, one of my pet peeves against modern (so-called) progressive liberalism:  The facile habit of taking ordinary words and assigning them new special meanings, so that no one is ever really sure quite what the heck you think you're talking about.

"...1.   a direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, or the like. "   (From Dictonary.com.)   Here's the OED:  "Financial aid furnished by a state or a public corporation in furtherance of an undertaking or the upkeep of a thing ... a grant or contribution of money ..."

The GM bailout was a subsidy, in the purest sense of the word.  Period.  Full stop.  

As the Man says, EN, you're entitled to your own opinions, but not to the invention of your own 'facts'.  :-/