Welch: Local dealers need to be saved

Rep Welch makes point auto companys should answer to goverment. What happened to market place . If do bad job let company fail, so what. Lot of other,s out there. This is example of when goverment gets involed. Wait when get goverment running health care. will be as well run as Veterans Administration

The government IS running GM now. Where does Welch think the real decisions are coming from? They're coming from the Obama administration. Who fired the CEO of GM? Obama.

Who voted blindly for the billions in the stimulus package? Welch did.

Government Motors is the future ... and it looks like it needs an overhaul. Rep. Welch is not going to buck Obama, nor is he going to do anything but vent the voice of the people "we've got a unique situation here where the brutal unfairness of the law is imposing enormous, unspeakable hardship on some pretty good people." Thanks for standing up for the pretty good people and keep that politic speech coming.

The new heads of GM and Chrysler have 536 new masters. The House, the Senate and the President.

How many multi billion dollar businesses has Mr Welch run? What's his business experience? He's now going to dictate to GM and Chrysler who will sell their cars and trucks in Vermont. What will happen when the companies start doing well again? What will happen whe somebody (a REPUBLICAN) wants to open a dealership in Vermont? They're going to have to go through Mr Welch.

Everybody in Washington is now the BOSS of the companies.
And that's an absolute shame.

We wanted "Change" and we sure got it!

Old Crafter wrote:

The new heads of GM and Chrysler have 536 new masters. The House, the Senate and the President.
How many multi billion dollar businesses has Mr Welch run? What's his business experience? He's now going to dictate to GM and Chrysler who will sell their cars and trucks in Vermont. What will happen when the companies start doing well again? What will happen whe somebody (a REPUBLICAN) wants to open a dealership in Vermont? They're going to have to go through Mr Welch.
Everybody in Washington is now the BOSS of the companies.
And that's an absolute shame.
We wanted "Change" and we sure got it!

I find it comical that we may end up with automobiles similar to those available in Russia during the Cold War... They lasted maybe a year, if you could get them to start, and available parts were nowhere to be found to fix them.
"Similar to what Chrysler has been doing for the last 25 years"!!!!!!!!

Just about everything is a joke lately! Gas heads up and cars get less mileage than they did years ago! Didn't VW claim 50mpg back in the 70's?

I have a 2000 Dodge Dakota with 140,000 miles on it. I LOVE that truck! It starts every day and I can trust it to take me anywhere.
I only hope it lasts as long as the truck I traded in for the Dodge. A 1990 Nissan pickup that I drove 314,000 miles.

And yes, VW did have a 50 MPG car. I had a 1981 Rabbit DIESEL that did indeed get 50 MPG.

Who Gives A Rats S wrote:

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I find it comical that we may end up with automobiles similar to those available in Russia during the Cold War... They lasted maybe a year, if you could get them to start, and available parts were nowhere to be found to fix them.
"Similar to what Chrysler has been doing for the last 25 years"!!!!!!!!

I believe you are referring to the Lada. Known in the US as the dodge neon.

Who Gives A Rats S wrote:

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I find it comical that we may end up with automobiles similar to those available in Russia during the Cold War... They lasted maybe a year, if you could get them to start, and available parts were nowhere to be found to fix them.
"Similar to what Chrysler has been doing for the last 25 years"!!!!!!!!

Not just cars but it sure looks like every thing else BANKS INSURANCE CO HEALTH CARE.

can't wait till we can go live in space. much more simple like the old days. maybe an island, maybe on top of the rockies. anyone have any idea until some of us get up to Haven?

Actually, the LADA was a FIAT. They were sold in Canada too. And now FIAT owns part of Chrysler.....?

But the TRABANT, THERE was a CAR! East German engineering! The thing couldn't get out of it's own way! That was Government automotive engineering at it's best. Ready GM? Ready Chrysler? Ready USA? The TRABANTS are coming!

Gotta keep GM around so they can sell Chinese Hummers to stupid Americans!

Old Crafter wrote:

Actually, the LADA was a FIAT. They were sold in Canada too. And now FIAT owns part of Chrysler.....?
But the TRABANT, THERE was a CAR! East German engineering! The thing couldn't get out of it's own way! That was Government automotive engineering at it's best. Ready GM? Ready Chrysler? Ready USA? The TRABANTS are coming!

I never understood how a country as great at making cars as Germany is could have ever made them.

Simple. GOVERNMENT workers made the Trabants while PRIVATE businesses made Audis, BMWs, Mercy Bs and VWs.

Here's an interesting perspective on gov't run auto makers.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1243812030545...

If you really want to solve ALL the auto problems, elect Tom Wood as Car Zar!