The Messiah saves yet another of the unwashed and unenlightened.

I think I feel my leg tingliing.

What a pathetic joke!

GOP Leadership speaking out blasting this ridiculously stupid bill which is nothing but a sop to the auto industry with our money?

Chirp….chirp….chirp.

Sigh!

That’s one of the many inconsistencies about the entire dealer evalution process which didn’t pass the smell test and prompted the Dealergate bloggers to dig deeper.

No small wonder that GM refused to release lists of the dealers it was closing.

- JP

And the wife will drive it fast…

Whether or not that’s correct though is probably beside the point. The current path is one that ultimately leads to the demise of GM and Chrysler, after enough years of dumping more billions into those ratholes wears out the patience of voters. Any dealerships that survive for now are just getting a stay of execution.

With Uncle Sam and the UAW having a big role in the management of Chrysler and GM, it’s a safe bet they’ll have an unprofitable business model, that can only stay afloat until the plug is pulled on their subsidies. That would be true even without the added factor that many past and potential customers like myself will be deliberately excluding them from contention in our future purchases.

Over the years I’ve bought cars by Japanese, American and now Korean companies (not sure whether they were manufactured in the US). In every case when I was deciding what car to buy, there were both American and foreign companies’ cars among my finalists. In the future when I buy a car, I refuse to even consider GM or Chrysler. I’m not sure if my disgust with the UAW may lead me to write off Ford too.

I don’t know how many other people will feel a similar revulsion toward the prospect of ever buying another GM car, but you can be sure it’s enough lost customers to twist the knife even further into the company’s dying corpse.

I am stunned anew at ignorance. Sheer arrogant ignorance.

The “job loss” question, to a business owner is absolutely, utterly not an issue. The issues are those things that ultimately lead to either real job loss or job gains. If you even CARE about “job loss” when you get to the point of either GM or Chrysler you are a damned fool. Please take that personally. Oh, and while your wadding up your panties, you can apply it to your BoyPresident™ too.

Just for your edification, the thing that IS important is being able to structure the company so it can design, manufacture (or purchase), goods and services and deliver them to the marketplace in a productive and profitable way.

GM is now being run by people who’ve never made a profit in their lives, they’ve just stolen what they thought they deserved. See BFrank.

Now then, lets get back to the real question. Where’s the constitutional authority to do this.

Ok there lightweight lets examine your issue here, Chrysler should have been allowed to enter bankruptcy without interference from Government. Now due to Government intervention we have dealerships losing their franchise support and most likely losing their ability to sell inventoried vehicles with warranties.

Now many of the people around here have told you that the dealerships pay for franchise rights and they buy the cars they keep in their inventory. The only thing Chrysler does is pay for advertising and factory warranties. Now terminating franchise agreements will solely destroy the dealerships that probably employ more people then all of Chrysler combined. The others around me have brought you additonal information to debate your point.

In a bankruptcy world, Chrysler would have had to make certain restructuring plans which would most likely include the renegotiation of Union contracts and other cost cutting measures to ensure future success in exiting bankruptcy with the ability to continue operations without folding dealerships across the country.

Regardless of either way this goes people yes will be losing jobs; however, doing it the way their doing it now with Government involvement has serious longterm Constitutional and Economical impacts that will have a dramatic effect on a larger segment of the working population then terminating the union contracts.

Under the current schemes many more jobs will potentially be lost because they are propping up a unprofitable business and not making the necessary changes to make it profitable. When the taxpayers get tired of footing the bill, like in the next administration, they will pull the rug out.

It is not as though we don’t have plenty of examples form history to point to. Nationalized industries always descend into endless hemorrhage, and poor performance. See Amtrak for an example.

These subsidies are just insane.

“Under the program, consumers may trade in their old, gas-guzzling vehicles and receive vouchers worth up to $4,500 to help pay for new, more fuel efficient cars and trucks. The program will be authorized for up to one year and provide for approximately one million new car or truck purchases. The agreement divides these new cars and trucks into four categories. Miles per gallon figures below refer to EPA “window sticker” values.”

If they were real men, they would get a pistol and rob us instead of pulling crap like this time and time and time again. Will we ever stop subsidizing these idiots?

Tom Wilkinson, a GM spokesman, said once the “current glut” of car brands disappears, prices for GM cars will increase anywhere from $2,000 to $6,000 for a new vehicle.

Price increase x Cars nobody wants to buy = $0. Absolute bloody marketing GENIUS!!

Not to mention my Polyannish notion that the Constitution of the United States means what it says. Who am I to argue with a “constitutional scholar” on the order of the Obamaduce’s magnitude?

- JP

In addition, you also are apparently laboring under the delusion that private enterprise creates jobs rather than massive amounts of government dollars injected strategically and efficiently into the markets.

TOTUS will not be pleased.

Dealers BUY cars from Chrysler and SELL them to American buyers. A dealership that does not make money will go out of business on its own — if it does make money it is none of your business.

The dealer closings make no sense at all.