Let’s Talk Cookies
Let’s talk cookies. Say, you want to sell some Girl Scout Cookies. But no one is buying them. What do you do? Pretty much you follow the good old fashioned rules of selling. You advertise the hell out of them and you put them in every city in every state, you make them hard to miss. You put your sweetest and cutest girls out there holding boxes of cookies and have them look up at guys with with wallets with their big cute eyes. That’s how you move those cookies. Ever Girl Scout knows this. This is how I’ve purchased about 985 boxes of girl scout cookies…. but that’s another story.
Okay, now lets say you want to sell some cars. You do the same thing, but leave out the puppy dog eyes. Every Car Guy knows this. Democrats evidently do not. Obama’s Posse told Chrysler to cut their advert budget in half. That’s half the advertising. Then they are told to cut dealerships. This is especially thick.
See, Dealerships are privately owned. Not owned by Chrysler or GM. You have independent owners who place orders with the factory. The factory builds the cars and ships them to the dealers. Thats all they do. To the customer, Chrysler or GM is the dealership. That’s all they see. What they are seeing is the Company cutting dealerships. What this is – is Chrysler slashing their own throats. This doesn’t make a lick of sense to me.
Every dealer wants to put new cars on his lot to show them off and move them. You cut Dealerships – you cut those orders for those new cars. You also cut all the jobs of all those people working for Not Chrysler or GM – but those that worked for those independent Dealerships. GM and Chrysler did just about the most stupid thing you can do.
Let’s say I was in the mood for another 5 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies… I’m going to go to where the cute little red haired girl has my Macaroons. Oh, wait… she’s not there. Where did she go? I don’t know. But I do know there is some Chips Ahoy right next door. Oh well… I’ll get some Chips Ahoy, because I need a cookie today. So right there – The Girl Scouts just lost a sale. That is how it works.
In my town, there use to be a Ford Dealership, and down the street was a Chevy Dealership. Well, the Chevy guy went Bat-Shit-Crazy, closed his dealership and started his own church. Reading too much L Ron Hubbard or something. Well, here we are 10 years later (or more) and there is no Chevy Dealership. Guess what most dudes are driving around in now. That’s right. Ford. (Most of the Chevy trucks you see running around tend to be either company fleet trucks owned by companies that are not local companies…. or their owners are die hard Chevy fans. And there is a lot of them here… but the majority of trucks going on here are Fords.
My point is this. The government makes for a completely shitty business manager. The government doesn’t know how to run a business. The government has no legal right to run a business. Any dealership that got shut down should sue the government because they overstepped their constitutional charter.
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Is the Obama Administration Seeking to Control All Banks?
May 13, 2009 by Guest Writer 2
Filed under Business, Economy, General
Banks that have accepted TARP money are in quite a jam, they now fall under the “gentle guiding hand” of the government run by the Obama Administration. Congress slipped in pay regulations in the recent economic stimulus bill. The last minute additions had banks scrambling to pay back the money, but the government will not allow this till the banks can prove their strength and success without government intervention.
The new considerations, while not concrete, do carry with them the weight of the federal government. Remeber that many of the Banks that recieved TARP funds did so only because they were threatened with an audit if they did not accept. The considerations on the table include:
…incorporating compensation as a “safety and soundness” concern on official bank examinations as well as expanding the existing regulatory powers of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Reserve to obtain more information regarding compensation. – New York Times
These Guidelines are attached to the rules put forth in the economic stimulus bill and may reach beyond the banks that accepted funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program. They are already extending to Wall Street as an example of Obama’s move to secure financial institutions that support much of the weight of America’s economy.
The question that begs to be asked in this situation is this; do we really want the government to control the banks? Consider these government run institutions which are in trouble and failing, as well as the personal habits of many in congress and the Obama appointees.
The United States Postal Service is raising stamp rates yet again. The USPS is also contemplating not delivering on Saturdays to save operating costs. While the government run services wags its accusing finger at emails, three fingers are pointing right back and they are labeled, waste, lack of innovation, and poor quality of service.
Rubbergate is still being investigated and there is a never ending flow of information on Congressional Democrats and some Republicans who bounced checks at the House Bank. They ran debts of tens of thousands of dollars and received no fee for the bounced checks. Yet the Congress had the gall to pass legislation on the little guy to punish them for floating checks.
Obama Appointees and Obama himself seem to be running afoul of the scandal police and the IRS left and right, no pun intended. Timothy Geithner is the worst of the bunch, having neglected to pay taxes on services received and is now in charge of the Treasury. Last but not least are the Obama’s alleged dealings in real estate that echo Hillary Clinton’s own troubles.
Should the government be in control of the banks and the economy? The evidence points to no.
