"Yikes! I Might Be...Militia!"
Below are three videos which capture some of the emotions of Chrysler dealers in Georgia, Michigan and New York who’ve been told their dealerships are set to close:
Video #1 (above): Daniel Womack, owner of a Claxton Chrysler in rural Claxton, Ga., warns the loss of his dealership in a town where everyone knows each others’ names, will be devastating to his small town.
Video #2 (above): Colleen McDonald, owner of Holiday Chevrolet, Livonia Chrysler Jeep, and Century Dodge, was told last week that all three of her dealerships in the Detroit area will have to be closed. She says “They can take away my franchise, but they cannot take away 30 years experience in the car business and they cannot take away my faith.”
Video #3 (above): Erika Koehler, whose family has owned and operated Scotia Motors Dodge in Scotia, N.Y., since 1946, urges her fellow New Yorkers to contact their elected officials about the federal government’s involvement in the effort to destroy their family business — and those of others. (Hat tip: Nice Deb)
Since parting ways with my 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme two-door after graduating from college, I’ve been “out of love,” so to speak, with the Big Three automakers, mostly because of the greed displayed by the United Auto Workers over the years. Still, I empathize with the 1,100 Chrysler dealers who will soon lose their dealerships and for their employees who will be let go as a result of Big Government run amok. And I can’t help but think about which industry is next on the fed’s chopping block.
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See also: American Thinker’s Letter from a Dodge Dealer
See also: Texas Chrysler Dealer Warns Fellow Americans
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3 Leonard Stramel // Jun 3, 2009 at 5:26 pm
My Name is Leonard Stramel
this is my idea tell Congress
“Only let them do this only if they build all there cars in the UNITED STATES”
Let Ford and GM Raffle off 50 cars each, in every State of the UNITED STATES every month.
Let the People that win the cars have the car with out being taxed for wining them.
WITHOUT NO BANKS INVOLVED
50 cars x 50 states = 2500 cars a month
2500 cars x 12 months = 30000 cars a year
$20,000.00 per car x 50 cars = $1,000,000.00 per state a month
$1,000,000.00 x 50 states = $50,000,000.00 PER Month
$50,000,000.00 x 12 months = $600,000,000.00 a year
$5.00 a ticket, 4000 tickets per car
put the Raffle tickets in the glove box as they leave the factory.
“Only let them do this if they build all there cars in the UNITED STATES”
4 Leonard Stramel // Jun 3, 2009 at 5:30 pm
let the dealership get a comishin fot raffling them off
Just Raffle cars
5 Leonard Stramel // Jun 3, 2009 at 5:30 pm
sell them also
6 Leonard Stramel // Jun 3, 2009 at 5:32 pm
If they have to do more then 50 cars
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