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Slow Paying Obama
EconomicPolicyJournal.com ^

Posted on 08/05/2009 9:33:32 AM PDT by Kozman

I was just told by a source inside the largest Ford dealership in a major city that, effective immediately, they have dropped out of the cash for clunkers program. As it turns out, the Feds can't find their checkbook. They are behind by more than $400K with this dealer and it's causing the dealer great financial distress..

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1 posted on 08/05/2009 9:33:33 AM PDT by Kozman
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To: Kozman

Gee I’m shocked.
The Baraqqis are screwing somebody Chicago style.

Let me guess, this Ford dealer is a registered Republican and donated to Republican candidates.........


2 posted on 08/05/2009 9:36:36 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Kozman

The owner of the dealership should be glad he’s not waiting for urgent care Obama healtcare plan!


3 posted on 08/05/2009 9:37:33 AM PDT by Made In The USA (BO stinks.)
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To: Kozman

When you play with the fed, you play by their time table. That’s always been the case...


4 posted on 08/05/2009 9:39:23 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Kozman
$400,000.00?
Ford Dealer?
Ford did not participate in the government bailouts and is still a private company. I wonder if this just might be a way to drive Ford out of business or into government control.
Paranoid? Maybe but I no longer trust our government in any way shape or form.
5 posted on 08/05/2009 9:43:39 AM PDT by Tupelo
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To: nascarnation

Can you imagine how Obama Care will be?

Now you have to report me to:
flag@whitehouse.gov


6 posted on 08/05/2009 9:44:48 AM PDT by ncfool (Obama's Health care is Like Cash for Clunkers! Dead on Arrival.)
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To: Tupelo

This dealership sold 100 cars in a week that ALL qualified for the rebate? Hmmmm something ain’t right somewhere


7 posted on 08/05/2009 9:47:33 AM PDT by the long march
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To: Kozman

aka “SCAM FOR SUCKERS”


8 posted on 08/05/2009 9:51:14 AM PDT by CheneyChick
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To: Kozman

It’s the Gov’t after all, they will get paid in the end, but what percentage of the total owed, and when?


9 posted on 08/05/2009 9:53:20 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Tupelo
Paranoid? Maybe but I no longer trust our government in any way shape or form.

no, you just hate America and don't support the troops.

10 posted on 08/05/2009 9:54:39 AM PDT by MichiganConservative (ObamaCare is socialism. It will do nothing but increase premature, unnecessary death.)
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To: the long march

I agree. The program has not been up and running long enough for dealers to be getting money back yet, as each of those purchases should be audited before the feds send money to the dealers. Something is not exactly right about this complaint.


11 posted on 08/05/2009 9:56:45 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Kozman

It’s the same with the first time home buyer’s tax credit (at least that’s what I’m hearing.) No money is forthcoming, to those who applied for the credit, or to the banks who let the homeowner use it to help with the downpayment and closing costs (http://www.rocklintoday.com/news/templates/realestate_california.asp?articleid=7655&zoneid=48).


12 posted on 08/05/2009 9:58:25 AM PDT by dawn53
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I'll bet GM and Chrysler dealers are getting their payments.
13 posted on 08/05/2009 10:02:53 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Obama voters deserve to suffer.)
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To: NEMDF

or about the program in general. I hated it when it was passed and I hate it even more now


14 posted on 08/05/2009 10:03:35 AM PDT by the long march
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To: dawn53

The ONLY thing The Marxist Onada cares about are the votes he “bought” by giving free money to people who didn’t deserve it.

Did Onada ever say anything about actually paying out the money? Who would be stupid enough to buy into a program that is dependent on gove’t funding these days?

OK, OK the stupid homeless guy or gal may not be aware that federal and state treasuries are broke. But surely one would expect business people—even car dealers—would understand THERE IS NO MONEY.


15 posted on 08/05/2009 10:06:02 AM PDT by dools007
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To: Kozman

Who knows, this dealer could be meeting the same kind of idiocy I dealt with over twenty years ago when I did some work for the Navy at Charleston. The invoice didn’t get paid and finally I called and spoke to the woman who was supposed to handle it and she promised to get my check out but didn’t. This went on for two months or more past the due date. Everytime I called she acted as if this was the first she had heard of my invoice. Finally I called and she gave me the same runaround but with more obvious disrespect. So I started speaking very slowly, in a deep voice dripping with malice and told her to listen closely. “I will not call you again, if I don’t get paid this time my next call will go to my United States Congressman from the sixth district of South Carolina”.I gave her the name of the man who held the office and asked if she had understood me. She changed her whole attitude and said, “Yes, Sir I understand perfectly, I will get your check right out”. I had my check in the next day’s mail. I have had similiar experiences with private industries. Some of these people get some kind of sick satisfaction out of holding up payment.


16 posted on 08/05/2009 10:08:41 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Change has come to America and all hope is gone.)
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To: the long march

200 here at one dealer that is also quitting the program. Multiple dealerships under one name is my assumption. And they have not seen a dime.


17 posted on 08/05/2009 10:14:30 AM PDT by doodad
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To: Kozman

O wants Ford to suffer. They hate that Ford didn’t take their bailout.


18 posted on 08/05/2009 10:19:53 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: doodad

got it


19 posted on 08/05/2009 10:37:21 AM PDT by the long march
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To: MichiganConservative

“no, you just hate America and don’t support the troops”

Have it your way. If this is what Free Republic is about, you can do without me.
Adios!


20 posted on 08/05/2009 10:54:30 AM PDT by Tupelo
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