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CBS Evening News: From Jobs Loss To Schools To Little League, A Dealer Closing Doors Reverberates Far

[mrmeatspin]

Posted by jbrown88881 at 07:44 PM : Dec 02, 2008
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terrorism ENDS as soon as obama and his dnc crew steps in the white house..they will have a concert and poverty ends..just like in africa..

we will go back to driving 9mpg suvs ..back to eating buffets..back to open borders..we can put those blinds back on so we would not care or know how we get oil..or how GAP managed to give you such a discount on that shirt...

the normal status quo continues..

[u-r-right]

These dealerships rode a nice cash wave for quite a while. They got away with $100 plus per hour labor charges for service. When times were good, they would see plenty who would pay $200-$400 for their "very impportant" scheduled maintenance service. Now the customers have found other alternatives through independent shops or do it themselves. Its really prety simple.

Same goes for their car prices. The MSRP joke, the wheeling and dealing, let me go talk to my manager shell game. Overpriced vehicles, mediocre standard warranties after the sale and bait and switch tactics. All the vehicles on the lot, loaded with unwanted options...sorry, must take delviery from dealer stock and oh, here, also pay this "prep" fee.

Maybe if they charged fair prices from the start, the dealers wouldn''t be in this mess.

[jowand]

The blame lays squarely on the shoulders of Bush and his cronies. No other way to cut it. So drop it. Bush even said, "I''''m sorry for the economy." He''''s still retarded as ever, but will be a very rich *** in the future once the public forgets about him. They''''ll have the bucks to groom more Bushlamics after Genna gets knocked up a few times by her frat boy man.

Posted by Lemonskink at 08:08 PM : Dec 02, 2008

A Democrat controlled Congress just gave the banks about 300 billion in tax payer money which they refuce to put into the economy so people can borrow to purchase autos. You should call Nanci Pelosi and Harry Reid and ask them why they are not doing something to stop this, instead you''re just running your big fat Progressive mouth telling lie after lie.

[incog-nito]

Automakers should sell the cars themselves, skip the dealers, and pass the savings to consumers. Give the customers just the options they want instead of loading the cars with useless expensive add-ons. America has become a land of middlemen instead of producers, whether it''s insurance or sales or simply paperwork. A nation''s real wealth can only be created by producing and adding value to material, not by sitting in the middle and skim off the top.

[lemonskink]

I''m sorry for all these people trying to lay the blame on the both parties. First, the Republicans controlled Congress for 12 years, 8 with Bush, this was before the Democrats started cleaning the clocks of these low-life Bushlamic Extremists. The blame lays squarely on the shoulders of Bush and his cronies. No other way to cut it. So drop it. Bush even said, "I''m sorry for the economy." He''s still retarded as ever, but will be a very rich *** in the future once the public forgets about him. They''ll have the bucks to groom more Bushlamics after Genna gets knocked up a few times by her frat boy man.

[baicas]

People would you quit blaming one party for this mess, both parties are responsible. As I have stated before, you are also responsible for keep voting the same durn people into office. No incumbents should be in office now after this last election, but you bozo''s elected them back in...so when the economy keeps going into the crapper you only have yourselves to blame for voting the same people back into office.