Posted on 06/11/2009 6:54:56 AM PDT by Caleb1411
Imagine owning a successful business you've built from the ground up. Maybe you provide several dozen people with good-paying, full-time jobs or are one of only a few businesses left in a small community. You've likely made difficult decisions just to keep your business afloat and employees on staff during these tough economic times.
One day you're given notice that you have 30 days to close your doors; no explanation, no chance to appeal -- just an ultimatum. I'm willing to bet few people would take that directive kindly.
Sadly, this scenario is not a figment of imagination -- it's a very disturbing reality for local automobile dealers across Minnesota.
The President's Auto Task Force recently allowed the planned elimination of over 3,000 dealerships nationwide. The actions are expected to put more than 100,000 people out of work, with many more job losses sure to follow.
With the recent bankruptcy filing by General Motors, the federal government, which has committed $50 billion of taxpayer money to GM, now owns a 60 percent equity stake in the company. Additionally, with Chrysler in bankruptcy over the last several weeks, the government is playing a significant role in the business decisions for both companies.
Auto dealers are threatened because GM and Chrysler are able to bypass state franchise laws that normally restrict what they can demand of and do to them. Most troubling is that the decisions on which dealers are forced to close appear to be arbitrary, and the reasons aren't being shared with the public.
In my district, for example, a longtime dealership, Bill Mason's Chrysler Jeep in Excelsior, was given 30 days to shut its doors. It didn't matter that Mason built the business and provides many good-paying jobs.
Similarly, George McGuire of Shakopee Chevrolet is being shut down
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Because our current government is hellbent to implement fascism.
Any other questions?
I pray the MSM will start asking questions before our America is no more...
When will people get that they elected the enemy.
Literally.
The keep in file reminder on debt:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/06/liars-ny-times-says-obama-is-not.html
See my tag. Zero and the democrat socialists don’t want to save jobs. They want to exacerbate the crisis so they can use it to nationalize even more of the private sector. Cf Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
There were economic reasons for closing dealerships; I recall seeing posts a few months ago that stated GM & Chysler had too many dealerships, but had entangled contractual commitments that made terminating the dealerships legally problematic short of a bankruptcy re-structuring. So the idea of terminating some dealership arrangements is not per se a bad idea.
The problem is that once GM & Chrylser became Government Motors and 0bama Motors, the termination of dealers is no longer an economic decision, it’s a political one. And this is per se a bad idea.
unfortunately, I wouldn’t count on it.... the media is nothing more than an extension of the president, the congress is considering presidential term limits, obama threatens courts and others who disagree with him, etc. etc. the list keeps going on yet somehow its “all bush’s fault” and “bush was a fascist”....
The car czar is taking care of his pals
I wonder how many of these dealers voted for what they are getting?
It has been reported that some of the franchises taken away are just being handed over to others.
Sounds like some kind of stealth reparations or wealth distribution, but as of yet there aren’t many news reports covering this aspect of the heavy-handed Obama power grab.
I’ve seen some videos and letters from people losing their franchises wherein they state that their franchise is being awarded to someone else as soon as they are put out of business.
I wonder how many of the people losing their jobs at the closed down franchises will still admit to being Obama voters.
Mr Paulsen: As a member of Congress, perhaps you could shout a little louder???
How about a connection between those dealers who supported Republican politicians VS those who are still in business who may have supported Dimocraps?
Because our current government is hellbent to implement fascism.
Any other questions?”
Paulsen must be the only person from Minnesota who didn’t vote for Franken or the Muslim Representative they already had in Congress.
only 20% of them i’ve heard.
In this time of legitimate disillusionment, it is nice to see some young GOP blood like Paulsen who still embody conservative principles. He’s a good one.
Minnesota is not Massachussetts. We have a Pubbie governor, a Pubbie Senator (for now) and three Pubbie US House Reps.
Why? Because Hussein Motors does not want competition. Nor does it want independent contractors, which is what dealers are. Dealers don’t work for GM. They work for themselves as recipients of GM franchises. Hussein has no real control over people of this sort—no LEGAL control, that is. So the plan is to get rid of them and eventually replace them with nice, shiny Hussein donors and ass-kissers.
It’s hard to understand how taxpayers are seen as shareholders in these transactions when the reality is that Obama merely forged our signatures as co-signers on the most-undercollateralized loan the world has seen.
Dealers sell cars to citizens and the plan is to coerce us out of our cars. In the meantime, Hussein Motors products will be delivered directly to state and municipal agencies that will be required by law to buy them.
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