GM – Chrysler Dealer Closings Was Politically Motivated Retribution; Obama Does Not Care About Jobs

Posted by Melissa Clouthier on Jul 19 2010 Filed under Business, News & Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Who, with a straight face, can say that President Obama cares about creating jobs? The man has shut down the oil industry in the gulf. He has passed a health care law that increases business costs thus limiting job creation. And now, his administration is exposed as needlessly shutting down dealerships costing “tens of thousands of jobs“.

You don’t say….

Back in the day, the question was asked: What’s the rationale for which dealerships are closed? There seemed to be a political motivation. This made it even into apolitical car blogs. At The Truth About Cars:

Even if this is a simple reflection of your average car dealer’s political leaning, there’s a lot of confusion out there amongst ex-Chrysler dealers as to why some got the chop and others didn’t. As you’d expect, as Automotive News reports, emotions are running high.

“I’m too stubborn to quit, and I’m too stupid to go away,” said the owner of Richard Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge in the western Chicago suburb of St. Charles. “I’m going to keep selling cars and fight this to the end.”

“We don’t fit the guidelines for closure,” Massarelli said. “We’re profitable, we’ve never missed a payment and we’ve done everything Chrysler has ever asked us to help them out.”

“Every time Chrysler said they needed us, we were there for them,” Massarelli said. “Now they won’t even return my calls.”

From a PR perspective, this is a channel stuffed with not good. Severed Chrysler dealers are making a fuss in Congress and federal bankruptcy court, where they’re trying to halt Judge Arthur Gonzalez’ approval (on Wednesday) of the asset sale which will create “new” Chrysler. Perhaps this is a disinformation campaign. Perhaps not. Either way, even if the fix (as in canine fertility) was in, it doesn’t look like they’re going to stop the train from leaving the station.

Yes, well. Incompetence, negligence, willful malfeasance. Take your pick. They all seem to be part of this administration.

The fact is, in order to get the reordered society that Barack Obama seeks, some of the little people have to be lost in the shuffle for the greater good.

Closing the dealerships, giving unions more power, the private sector losing jobs are all necessary and needed to fulfill the ultimate goal of a more flattened society. But as with all things quasi-socialist, it simply doesn’t work.

When taxpaying jobs are killed, the unemployed take more from the public sector, who then need to raise taxes on stressed companies, that will then need to get rid of employees.

The economy is in a tailspin and the Democrats are so ideologically driven they’re impervious to the real-world consequences of their actions. And their actions hurt real people who used to have real jobs.

So yes, the closings were retribution: The Obama administration is systematically punishing what he perceives as the evils of capitalism. The middle businessman, even small mom and pop businesses, are the enemy. They can neither adequately feed or serve the god of government and therefore, they’re expendable.

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