{"id":32569,"date":"2009-06-02T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:20:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:20:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:20:26","slug":"the_obama_business_model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/02\/the_obama_business_model\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Business Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Jay in Norfolk, Virginia. Hello, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Good.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: My question is with the Chrysler and GM downfall going bankrupt &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; now they\u2019re dumping dealerships. Dealerships are independently owned. What purpose or sense would that make whether they sell one unit or a hundred units a month? I mean, they still employ people which they won\u2019t be after they\u2019re told they can\u2019t sell anymore.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: See, this is an interesting question to me because let\u2019s look at the Obama business plan. Let\u2019s take it from top to bottom. First thing you do is you take over these companies. After you take \u2019em over, you then put somebody in charge to dismantle them who doesn\u2019t even probably know how to turn a car on, much less use a blinker, and, if so, probably never been in a factory. So then they dismantle it, and one of the decisions they make is, we\u2019re going to stop making cars that people want and we\u2019re going to make cars that people don\u2019t want but we\u2019re going to force them into because we need to save the planet because America is destroying it. Then, after deciding to build cars that historically people have rejected, they then close about 2,000 dealerships for Chrysler and 2,000 for General &#8212; (interruption) how many? No, it\u2019s more than that, it\u2019s going to be a total of 2,100 before they\u2019re through with Chrysler. So, four thousand dealerships they\u2019re going to close, total. Which means it\u2019s going to be harder to go get one of these cars.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Plus they employ an average of about a hundred people per dealership, so that\u2019s how many unemployed people?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125114.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: I think it\u2019s a little lower than that, 50. But, regardless, they\u2019re thrown out of work, and the decisions as to which dealerships to shut down appear to also be political. People are studying it, can\u2019t confirm it yet, but I left out a phase. Obama slashed Chrysler\u2019s ad budget in half. So you\u2019re going to build cars that people don\u2019t want, historically have said they don\u2019t want, you\u2019re gonna cut the advertising budget, which lets people know the cars exist and then you\u2019re going to close a lot of dealerships, which are going to make the cars hard to find. Now, would somebody explain this business model to me? This sounds like a business model designed to fail. You got a new line of cars that nobody wants, you gotta get \u2019em in the car to save the planet, but then you cut the advertising in half, so people are going to be less aware of the new cars. And then the place they go to buy one may not be there. They may need meal money for the road trip to get to the dealership. None of this makes any sense. And his point about dealerships being independently owned, he\u2019s right about that. I mean they have ties to the manufacturer, but I don\u2019t know if dealerships are not manufacturer owned. So that is a curious point. It\u2019s the way a community organizer does it, folks, that\u2019s the only way to understand it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Jay in Norfolk, Virginia. Hello, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing? RUSH: Good. CALLER: My question is with the Chrysler and GM downfall going bankrupt &#8212; RUSH: Yes. CALLER: &#8212; now they\u2019re dumping dealerships. Dealerships are independently owned. 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