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Rush: Automobile dealers fighting against closures. You may have heard earlier on the program today that the brilliance of Barack Obama and his auto czar — try this — we\u2019re going to close 3,000 Chrysler dealerships, which means it\u2019s going to be really hard to go find a Chrysler. Then we\u2019re going to cut the advertising budget in half, which means fewer people are going to know what kind of cars are available wherever you have to go to get \u2019em. And this is going to save the automobile industry. The auto dealers are fighting against closures. ‘While General Motors and Chrysler make plans to eliminate hundreds of auto dealers around the country, Mike Breyfogle –‘ wait just a second here. You can\u2019t say General Motors and Chrysler are making plans to eliminate hundreds of dealers. You have to say, either, while the United Auto Workers or President Obama ‘are making plans to eliminate hundreds of auto dealers around the country, Mike Breyfogle, general manager of Tempe Dodge Chrysler Jeep in Tempe, Ariz., considers himself one of the lucky ones.\u2019<\/p>\n

Hey, Mike, Mr. Breyfogle? I guess that means his dealership\u2019s not closing, but you\u2019re still in trouble because the president of the United States was just out there and did a commencement speech and essentially told the graduates at ASU that they shouldn\u2019t even want to have a car! ”This is a terrible thing,\u2019 said Breyfogle, whose company runs a total of nine dealerships in Arizona and Chicago. ‘I\u2019m hearing through friends of friends that some of the smaller dealerships are expecting to get the ax. I think we will be fine, so I\u2019m not really worried, but I\u2019m sure there are a lot of dealers around the country that are losing a lot of sleep right now.\u2019 Chrysler\u2019s bankruptcy proceedings and GM\u2019s severe financial problems are sending a shudder of fear through the nation\u2019s approximately 20,700 dealers, and some of them are organizing to fight back. But so far it is unclear how much power they will have to save themselves, especially if GM follows Chrysler into bankruptcy court.<\/p>\n

‘On Thursday Chrysler is expected to issue a preliminary list of dealers that it will admit into the ‘new\u2019 company after it emerges from bankruptcy.\u2019 No, Obama or the United Auto Workers will issue the list, and I\u2019ll bet you Obama has been working on which dealerships survive based on campaign donations. This is how Democrats do this. ‘GM also is due to start notifying dealers this week if they will be allowed to continue to sell its remaining brands, including Buick, Cadillac and Chevrolet. All told, GM and Chrysler could notify roughly 3,300 dealers this week that they will lose their franchises.\u2019 While all this is going on, GM says, hey, guess what, you know what? We\u2019re going to start importing cars from China. Yes siree, Bob. ‘As thousands of General Motors workers await word on more US plant closures, reports that the company plans to import Chinese-made vehicles have created a political problem for the automaker and the White House. The reports, which GM will neither confirm nor deny, could mean trouble because GM is supported by $15.4 billion in US government loans, largely due to the Obama administration\u2019s desire to preserve the company\u2019s 90,000 US [union] jobs.\u2019<\/p>\n

The United Auto Workers is not happy about this. General Motors, Chrysler, too, it\u2019s an ongoing policy that you build and sell a car in the same country. But ChiCom labor is much cheaper than Ron Gettelfinger labor. And so General Motors, I\u2019m sure they\u2019re throwing this out to see, some exec probably wants to get canned so he\u2019s throwing this idea out there. You know, wait \u2019til Obama\u2019s car czar people hear about this. Now, GM makes the cars. They\u2019re not ChiCom cars. They\u2019re General Motors cars. But they\u2019re made in China by ChiCom workers at much cheaper prices than Ron Gettelfinger workers. And so they\u2019re not confirming or denying this, but somebody\u2019s floated the idea. It would be more efficient, it would be efficient, but we\u2019re back to the old saw we\u2019re exporting American manufacturing jobs if we do that. Look, you want the companies to stay afloat or you don\u2019t, you have to take your choice. I want to go a different direction on this, though. We had the story yesterday about the Democrat member of Congress from Delaware who was all upset that a thousand jobs might be lost if GM closed a plant in Delaware. I read the story, and this guy said, ‘We can\u2019t have this, we can\u2019t lose these thousand jobs. I\u2019m going to get General Motors maybe to transfer some other workers here. If they\u2019re going to close this plant and stop making certain cars here, I\u2019m going to make something else because we can\u2019t stand to lose a thousand jobs.\u2019 <\/p>\n

What do people think the purpose of a company is? What is the purpose of a corporation? Don\u2019t you think it\u2019s a little late now? I mean everybody\u2019s been bashing General Motors, everybody in government — local, national, state, they\u2019ve been bashing General Motors and Chrysler; it\u2019s been the popular thing to do. Now all of a sudden when they\u2019re faced in Delaware with losing a thousand jobs, ‘Oh, we can\u2019t lose a thousand jobs.\u2019 When was the last time any of you people were concerned with General Motors selling cars? You know, the fact of the matter is that the purpose of a company is not to set up shop and pay health care benefits and provide salaries for people in the neighborhood. That\u2019s not the purpose of a company. Nobody ever formed a company; nobody ever started a factory and said, ‘You know what? I\u2019m doing this because I want people here to have a job. And I want them to have health benefits.\u2019 They had a product that they wanted to sell and they were trying to earn a profit. Too many people on the left now simply look at these companies simply as a way to keep Democrat union members employed, and to hell with what the company does, and to hell with whether the company succeeds. It just better not fail. And if it fails we\u2019re gonna lose these Democrat jobs, these union people will be out work, we can\u2019t have that, with no concern whatsoever for the company, no concern for the product it makes. <\/p>\n

The very people who come up with all these regulations on mileage and CAFE standards, adding costs galore to cars, now the dealers are in the same situation, thirty-three hundred dealers. And you\u2019ll note — so far I haven\u2019t seen it yet; it may happen — but I haven\u2019t seen any elected officials worried about dealerships closing, and the average number of employees at a dealership is 50, so 3,000 dealerships, 150,000 employees. I haven\u2019t seen a state official or a congressman or senator worry about a dealership closing. But a factory, with a thousand Ron Gettelfingers in there, can\u2019t have that. The focus of the automobile business has long ago been lost. By the way, again, I\u2019m not exonerating GM or Chrysler. Please don\u2019t misunderstand. But I\u2019m telling you, the people that have set themselves up as the saviors to fix it have less of a clue than the people who were originally in charge when all this downward spiraling began, because there\u2019s nobody in Obama\u2019s car czar place that has the slightest idea how to sell a car, how to design one, what the competitive factors are in the automobile business. They just look at this as a way to maintain Democrat jobs, pure and simple. <\/p>\n

Well, I would go back to what Obama said in that silly, offensive speech he made to the graduates at Arizona State University. He essentially said, hey, if you get rich, fine, as long as that\u2019s not your purpose. If that\u2019s your purpose, if you\u2019re seeking money, then you\u2019re committing a sin. If you\u2019re seeking money, that\u2019s immoral. But if you do great work for people, you go to a great company and so forth, and you get rich, that\u2019s fine. Well, using that logic, the only way General Motors factories can stay open is if somebody is buying the products made in them, and that\u2019s the focus that seems to have been lost once everybody in government got their hands on all these companies. We got a list of can\u2019ts and don\u2019ts. You can\u2019t do that, you can\u2019t do this, and don\u2019t do this and don\u2019t do that. You have people like Barack Obama and Steve Rattner approving reorganization plans offered by automobile executives who were forced to drive into town to present their plans rather than fly in because it looked bad. There\u2019s nobody in charge of these companies who cares a whit about the purpose of them or who understands or knows what the purpose is. They just gotta keep the enterprise going because a lot of union Democrat voters work there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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