Comments on: A Dealership at the Heart of a Town

Family Business That's Been Around Since 1916 Forced to Close Under GM's Restructuring Plan

[presjfk]

No automaker is going to be interested in a 100 car a year store. GM should have shut this guy down long ago.

[stuart2020]

You are a real moron! And Obamas favorabilty ratings are still holding steadily high at 54% so shove it neo! The government did'nt BUY GM, they loaned it money and forced it to re-think how it does business so that in the future it would be profitable and not a threat to its employees and the country.

Already GM is planning to have the money to pay back the taxpayer ahead of schedule. The new Camaro is selling like hotcakes as will other new products GM is introducing since its emergence from bankruptcy.

You need to get a job and quit depending on the government for your rented PC payments and your trailer rent and foodstamps. Get a life you Rushbot!

[stuart2020]

You are a real moron! And Obamas favorabilty ratings are still holding steadily high at 54% so shove it neo! The government did'nt BUY GM, they loaned it money and forced it to re-think how it does business so that in the future it would be profitable and not a threat to its employees and the country.

Already GM is planning to have the money to pay back the taxpayer ahead of schedule. The new Camaro is selling like hotcakes as will other new products GM is introducing since its emergence from bankruptcy.

You need to get a job and quit depending on the government for your rented PC payments and your trailer rent and foodstamps. Get a life you Rushbot!

[stuart2020]

We thought you had all that covered.

[car1wholesaler]

Who?s at fault for the American automobile industry collapsing to the point it needs to turn to the government for help! Well if you really look at the problem everyone is. The government is for allowing so many imports vehicles in to our country, with out considering the out come of what will happen to the American cars. The public for forgetting where they live, work, and play freely (in America), the automobile manufacture for not thinking about the American public. When they were building vehicles like they were toy model cars. Now we have a president that says he will save jobs and get the economy going to put people back to work. But the government forces the American manufactures to close car dealerships, down size the plants. Putting serve hundreds of thousands of people out of work that have survived off, The American automobile business. What did they do for the import vehicles sold in this country? They are forcing American car dealers to open more import dealerships. Pushing the American plant worker to find work for the import manufacture in this country. How does this help the American automobile business in this country? Where we employ and keep the tax payers money in this country. Instead of shipping it to Japan or Korea. The government took the American publics tax dollars to help out the American built vehicle companies, on the same hand forced Americans to help build sell and open more import dealerships in this country off our tax dollars. How have we helped the American economy by allowing the government to do this????? The government, the public, the manufacture needs to think about this country America and stop thinking about greed. Every import vehicle sold; bought and built in this country will keep bring down the American automobile industry. Which we all know that the down turn of the automobile industry affects the American economy.

[ibsteve2u]

"The Obama administration is systematically trying to kill off rural communities"?????

lolllll...try again.

Your boyz in the Republican Party are responsible for that...their free trade actions are causing the rural feeder industries that supplied the larger corporations who have relocated manufacturing offshore to die off right and left.

That is what is killing small towns: The death of small industry.

Given that rural areas often vote Republican, you would think that even the Republicans couldn't be so stupid as to cut their own throats by creating trade policies that could do nothing but force people to move to cities.

What the Republicans do to satiate their greed never ceases to amaze me. It would be hilarious, if it wasn't hurting America so badly.

[ibsteve2u]

by Slrman July 12, 2009 4:47 AM PDT: "Does this mean that they cannot still be a car dealer? That they cannot switch to Toyota, Kia, Ford, or even go to "pre-owned" cars? You would think that GM is coming to town to slit the throats of everyone there."

Exactly.

There are comments here that say things like "The Obama administration is systematically trying to kill off rural communities" and then are continued on to blame those who voted for Obama and typecast them a people who "sit there with their hands out".

All because GM - GM, mind you - chose to close dealerships and Obama didn't "wave a magic wand" and make it all better - with a friggin' hand out.

The hypocrisy of the right is...annoying.

[ibsteve2u]

You shouldn't mention the U.S. Post Office.

I found it to be highly curious that - under a Republican Administration - they began selling "forever" stamps, which permanenly locks out any ability to compensate for rising energy costs etc.

Curious, don't you think, that the Republicans would do such a thing, which primarily benefits business while making the USPS vulnerable to future red ink - and thus vulnerable to future Republican calls for its complete privatization and/or sale?

Curious, indeed...

[kenngoldblatt]

The real problem here is getting lost in the details. Bigger is NOT better; it's simply easier for the people who want to control it. It's easier for the government to deal with a few giant corporations than millions of small businesses. And it's easier for those giant corporations to deal with a few distributors than thousands. But giant government, corporations or distributors DON'T create the same numbers of jobs (proportionally) that those millions of small businesses do. Nor do they pay the same amounts of taxes (proportionately) because the large corporations demand tax incentives for bringing their jobs into a given area. When are the politicians going to get it? Small business built this country and this society and is the only solution to keep it vibrant and healthy. "Too big to fail" is just as flawed a concept that the current crisis should put the lie to once and for all as focusing on profit as the only measure of an organization's viability. Unless we see that the role of business has more social implications than simply generating "money" we are destined for failure as a society.

[mjvwsr]

lucky you