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If the GOV can't sell women and whiskey, how can they run a car company?
no kidding, there was a blip on foxnews that a pimp had one of his girls working for chicken nuggets .
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If the GOV can't sell women and whiskey, how can they run a car company?
GOVERNMENT WARRANTY
It is my hope that the steps I am announcing today will go a long way towards answering many of the questions people may have about the future of GM and Chrysler. But just in case there are still nagging doubts, let me say it as plainly as I can -- if you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired, just like always. Your warrantee will be safe.
In fact, it will be safer than it's ever been. Because starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warrantee.
You all remember King Midas? Everything he touched turned to gold.
Obama to wants to be King, however everything he touches will turn to .
GM and Chrysler are now going to become social experiments which will be doomed to fail. Ford had better hope it can survive without Government loans or it too will meet the same fate.
It will require unions and workers who have already made painful concessions to make even more.
This is what it is all about, It is not based on marketing data or research. It is based on what the LIB's "feel" is best for all of us. The deal is we already build fuel efficient cars that people really don't want. Look at all of the imports, they are getting larger, because Americans want safety and comfort. Building cars no one wants is a real bad idea. Even Toyota put the brakes on it's Prius plant.I am absolutely committed to working with Congress and the auto companies to meet one goal: the United States of America will lead the world in building the next generation of clean cars.
They built it in Tupelo, but Toyota may not come
March 27, 2009
TUPELO, MISS. -- Earth movers kick up clouds of bone-dry Mississippi dust as they clear land around the brave new world of the North American auto industry - the first assembly plant for the Toyota Prius outside Asia.
From the outside, the massive complex looks nearly ready to start cranking out thousands of the popular, gas-miserly hybrids. The structure is complete, the electrical plant is hooked up and the roof is dotted with ventilating pipes.
But looks can be deceiving.
Waiting for better times, Toyota Motor Corp. TM-N recently pulled the plug on the $1.3-billion (U.S.) plant, located outside Tupelo, Miss. The complex is little more than a shell, without even a corporate sign laying claim to the 1,700-acre site.
Inside, the floors are bare, there is no equipment, and no hint of the promised 2,000 assembly jobs.
Toyota is mothballing the facility until at least 2010, or whenever Americans start buying cars again.
And so it goes for the North American auto industry. Even in the South, which was on its way to becoming the new Detroit, the industry is in hibernation. With vehicle sales in a freefall, Mississippi's traditional charms - rich government incentives, low taxes, cheap labour and an aversion to unions - apparently aren't enough.
Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice) defended the administration, suggesting that Detroit had had its chance. "My feeling is that we were too tolerant for too long and this is the tough medicine the taxpayer wants. And we have to reinvent our auto industry, or it will die."