The New York Times reported this week that “October was the best month for new-vehicle sales in more than two years, outside of the brief period in 2009 helped by government rebates.”
Sales for the auto industry were up 13.4 percent over all from a year ago. Sales for General Motors rose 4.2 percent, sales for Ford Motor Company were up 19.3 percent, and sales for Chrysler jumped 37 percent.
General Motors’ vice president for sales, Don Johnson, was confident that the American Auto industry has recovered from the economic crisis that left them on the brink of total collapse less than two years ago; “Signs are there that the recovery continues and that it will be sustained,” said Johnson. “We don’t see a big risk at all of a double dip.”
It looks like federal intervention saved the U.S. Auto industry. You would think that American auto dealers would be grateful — out of patriotism or self-interest or both.
Think again.
Those U.S. flags they like to wave at auto dealerships don’t mean “thank you.”
Instead of thanking the federal government, auto dealers continue to be some of the largest contributors to far-right, anti-government Republicans, who rail against the very programs that pulled them from the brink of collapse.
This right-wing, anti-government hypocrisy on the part of auto dealers is especially true here in Orange County, where auto dealerships — like Irvine Auto Center — have often served as staging locations for Tea Party rallies, and where our local car-salesman-in-chief, auto dealer and Congressman John Campbell, continues to blast the federal government for providing the money that kept his family auto dealership alive.
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glad u care and still try to ask questions even though answer is obvious. money and power, 2 five letter words. when you got it you like it.
word mightier than sword, but why not have both. “fear and loathing” in the south. all Blue Dogs gone. Yellow Dogs aren’t to be understood.