Comments on: Bailout Watch 135: Car Dealers: “Where’s OUR G.D. Bailout?”

By: CanuckGreg

CanuckGreg — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:36:25 +0000

All this begging for gov’t money…you guys could be mistaken for Canadians!

By: TaurusGT500

TaurusGT500 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:23:15 +0000

A car dealer bailout? I don’t know if we can do a car dealer bailout. I’m going to have to talk to my manager about that.

Senator Plaidcoat: “Well Mr and Mrs Dealers… you seem like a nice couple… let’s just pencil in a few bailout numbers on this 4-Square Worksheet…. and, you know… see if we can get the numbers to work out. Heh heh.”

By: autonut

autonut — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:31:05 +0000

Most if not all of them also own foreign brand. You can’t and couldn’t just waltz into Toyota or Honda office and offer service without having dealership already, and the one you could have was domestic. Also, because GM would not give 2 franchises to one operator in 40-50’s a lot of franchisees own competing brand. One would imagine that those pimples on society ass had enough. There is nothing wrong with public buying cars directly from manufacturers, but those cok suckers pushed laws through each state (except Alaska I think) which prohibit sale of new cars without a dealer.

By: HarveyBirdman

HarveyBirdman — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:42:09 +0000

Great bunch of comments. Seriously, the US economy has turned into a massive horde of piglets jostling for their spot at the teats of good ol’ Uncle ~~Sow~~ Sam. Except this litter is going to feed until the milk is gone, and then turn carnivorous on mom. (Too much of a stretch on the metaphor?)

By: Steven Lang

Steven Lang — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:02:42 +0000

Hey. What about us bald people? At least the barbers have hair to cut!

I lost my hair. It’s not fair!. Where’s my bailout?

By: ronin

ronin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:56:59 +0000

Why not bail out barbers? Men used to get haircuts every week or two. They’d get shaves. There was a shop or two on every corner.

Long hair came as well as casual dressing. Barbers used to make a decent coin. Now the business has been just barely keeping its head up for decades. A lot of the remaining barbers are old timers.

They did nothing to earn this loss. They provided news, camaraderie, grooming.

Where the hell is THEIR bailout?

By: Justin Berkowitz

Justin Berkowitz — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:11:04 +0000

no_slushbox :
A car dealer bailout? I don’t know if we can do a car dealer bailout. I’m going to have to talk to my manager about that.

Alright, he says if you take it before the end of the day today, we can get you a car dealer bailout for the showrooms. What about the service depots? I don’t think I can do that. Sit here for 10-15 minutes and I’ll go ask him.

By: no_slushbox

no_slushbox — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:30 +0000

A car dealer bailout? I don’t know if we can do a car dealer bailout. I’m going to have to talk to my manager about that.

By: thalter

thalter — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:38:14 +0000

So do only D3 dealers get a bailout, or do import dealers qualify?

If we support import dealers, we are supporting the sales of foreign cars, and shipping well paying jobs overseas, you liberal elitist!

If we don’t support foreign dealers, we will be losing a lot of well paying sales and service jobs, jobs that can’t be outsourced, you liberal elitist!

Ohh, I’m so confused. Glad I’m just a midwestern simpleton, and not a liberal elitist.

By: speedlaw

speedlaw — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:37:37 +0000

Dealers may be scum, but I was recently in my local BMW dealer. It was a beehive. They claim they are still doing OK, although a few other local BMW dealers, not so much.

Imagine you had a Chrysler Dealership in, say 1967, and you were offered some stupid Japanese car, a Toyoda, or something like that. Maybe you’d buy on a whim, but you’d not think it was a better car to sell than the 67 Fury or Imperial. Today it’s the other way.

The dealer has no say over what he sells, if what I’ve read for years is at all true. I don’t think we should bail the dealers, unless in the context of a mass mortgage loan forgiveness program, which won’t happen.

The banks need suckers to work to make the engine go. That’s why it costs them next to zero to borrow from the Treasury but your credit card bill is still 19%.

By: JK43123

JK43123 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:32:11 +0000

If we could get a coordinated effort where every business in the US demanded a bailout perhaps we could stop this insanity.

Absolutely! When Congress approves another stimulus bill, send all businesses a nice big check as well. Ridiculous.

John

By: tulsa_97sr5

tulsa_97sr5 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:11:56 +0000

If we could get a coordinated effort where every business in the US demanded a bailout perhaps we could stop this insanity.

By: Jerome10

Jerome10 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:15:08 +0000

Where’s my GD bailout? :)

By: hltguy

hltguy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:12:20 +0000

One response to the dealers: Go to Hell. You made your bed, sleep in it.