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Doggie_Wood
Apr 9, 2010, 1:47 PM
Chrysler's Railroad

This could be a scandal of epic proportions and one that makes Nixon's Watergate or Clinton 's Monica Lewinsky affair pale by comparison. Why was there neither rhyme nor reason as to which dealerships of the Chrysler Corporation were to be closed?

Roll the clock back to the weeks just before Chrysler declared bankruptcy. Chrysler, like GM, was in dire financial straits and federal government "graciously" offered to "buy the company" and keep them out of bankruptcy and "save jobs."

Chrysler was, in the words of Obama and his administration,

"Too big to fail," same story with GM.

The feds organized their "Automotive Task Force" to fix Chrysler and GM. Obama, in an act that is 100% unconstitutional, appointed a guy named Steve Rattner to be the White House's official Car Czar - literally, that's what his title is.

Rattner is the liaison between Obama, Chrysler, and GM.

Initially, the national media reported that Chrysler 'had made this list of dealerships'. Not true!

The Washington Examiner, Newsmax, Fox New and a host of other news agencies discovered that the list of dealerships was put together by the "Automotive Task Force" headed by no one other than Mr. Steve Rattner.

Now the plot thickens.

Remember earlier we said that there was neither rhyme nor reason why certain dealerships were closed?

Actually there's a very interesting pattern as to who was closed down. Again, on May 27, 2009, The Washington Examiner and Newsmax exposed the connection.

Amazingly, of the 789 dealerships closed by the federal government, 788 had donated money, exclusively to Republican political causes, while contributing nothing to Democratic political causes. The only "Democratic" dealership on the list was found to have donated $7,700 to Hillary's campaign, and a bit over $2,000 to John Edwards. This same dealership, reportedly, also gave $200.00 to Obama's campaign.

Does that seem a little odd to you?


Steve Rattner is the guy who put the list together. Well, he happens to be married to a Maureen White. Maureen happens to be the former national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee. As such, she has access to campaign donation records from everyone in the nation- Republican or Democrat. But of course, this is just a wacky "coincidence," we're certain.

Then comes another really wacky "coincidence."

On that list of dealerships being closed down, a weird thing happened in Arkansas , North Louisiana, and Southern Missouri . It seems that Bill Clinton's former White House Chief of Staff, Mack McClarty, owns a chain of dealership in that region, partnered with a fellow by the name of Robert Johnson.

Johnson happens to be founder of Black Entertainment Television and was a huge Obama supporter and financier.

These guys own a half dozen Chrysler stores under the company title of RLJ-McClarty-Landers.Interestingly, none of their dealerships were ordered closed - not one!

While all of their competing Chrysler/Dodge and Jeep dealership were!



Eight dealerships located near the dealerships owned by McClarty and Johnson were ordered shut down. Thus by pure luck, these two major Obama supporters now have virtual monopoly on Chrysler sales in their zone.

Isn't that amazing?

Go look in The Washington Examiner, the story's there, and it's in a dozen or so other web-based news organizations; this isn't being made up.


Now if you thought Chrysler was owned by Fiat, you are mistaken. Under the federal court ruling, 65% of Chrysler is now owned by the federal government and the United Auto Workers union!

Fiat owns 20%.

The other 15% is still privately owned and presumably will be traded on the stock market. Obama smiles and says he doesn't want to run the auto industry.

As horrifying as this is to comprehend, and being as how this used to be the United States of America , it would appear that the president has the power to destroy private businesses and eliminate upwards of 100,000 jobs just because they don't agree with his political agenda.

This is Nazi Germany stuff, and it's happening right here, right now, in our back yard.

There are voices in Washington demanding an explanation, but the "Automotive Task Force" has released no information to the public or to any of the senators demanding answers for what has been done.

Keep your ear to the ground for more on this story. If you've ever wanted to make a difference about anything in your life, get on the phone to your national senator or representative in the House and demand an investigation into this.

Benjamin Franklin had it right when he said, "All that's necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."



Car Czar No More

An amazing thing happened as this story was going to press. Obama's Car Czar, Steve Rattner, resigned on July 13 and was promptly replaced by former steel workers union boss Ron Bloom.
According to CBS News, Rattner left "to return to private life and spend time with his family."

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said, "I hope that he takes another opportunity to bring his unique skills to government service in the future."

By the way, Rattner is under investigation for a multi-million dollar pay-to-play investment bank scandal in New York .

Uh-oh!

But, we're certain that had nothing to do with his resignation.

And, according to several news sources out there, there are rumors he's being investigated for what could be pay-to-play scandal involving the closing of Chrysler and GM dealerships. Really? Again, that couldn't have anything to with his resignation-that's ridiculous! Like CBS said, this guy just wants to "spend more quality time with his family."

Obama has 32 personally appointed "czars" who answer to no one but him, all of whom are acting without any Constitutional authority.

But hey, we're sure they all have "unique skills,"......as Tim Geithner likes to say!



SOOOOO - HOW'S THE CHANGE WORKING FOR YOU?. . .

Check it out at the following websites.....

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/05/hope-change-car-czar-behind-chrysler.html

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-auto-policy-All-in-the-Democratic-family-44414452.html

This goes beyond corruption in high places - to gross criminal actions on the part of our government! I hope you will spread this far and wide, and hopefully the taxpaying public will demand some of that transparency we were promised......followed by criminal prosecution of the perpetrators!



What a crooked government, we have!!!!!

Vote 'em all out...November, 2010!

hudson9
Apr 9, 2010, 5:33 PM
Not true.

Don't believe me, check out at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/chrysler.asp

Even FOX news has reported that there is no truth to this claim.

BTW -- "...Car Czar - literally, that's what his title is" -- No, that is literally NOT his title. There is NO official title anywhere in the US Government that includes the word "Czar". That is a colloquial term (think "knickname") applied by reporters, pundits, etc. to some high-level administration appointments. This is a practice that began during the Nixon administration. (Yes, Nixon, that notorious Communist.)

FalconAngel
Apr 9, 2010, 5:43 PM
Where was this level of outrage over the Bush administration and he and Cheney's associations, which were near directly, with the "no bid" open contracts with Haliburton and Schwarzvasser (blackwater)? now let's talk about nazis stuff.

Then again, the Republicans lie about everything and then blame the failures on the Democrats, while the Democrats lie about many things and blame it on the Republicans.

If we want to eliminate the problem, then we must eliminate both parties and start from scratch.

It sure can't be worse than it is now, with the current corruption levels.

FalconAngel
Apr 9, 2010, 5:44 PM
Not true.

Don't believe me, check out at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/chrysler.asp

Even FOX news has reported that there is no truth to this claim.

BTW -- "...Car Czar - literally, that's what his title is" -- No, that is literally NOT his title. There is NO official title anywhere in the US Government that includes the word "Czar". That is a colloquial term (think "knickname") applied by reporters, pundits, etc. to some high-level administration appointments. This is a practice that began during the Nixon administration. (Yes, Nixon, that notorious Communist.)

I love snopes.com. Have it saved in my references bookmarks.

Doggie_Wood
Apr 9, 2010, 6:50 PM
OK - my bad
I checked it out but it seams not quite enough.
My apologies - I was merely pointing to the corruptness of our government as a whole.

Doggie :doggie:

FalconAngel
Apr 9, 2010, 9:11 PM
OK - my bad
I checked it out but it seams not quite enough.
My apologies - I was merely pointing to the corruptness of our government as a whole.

Doggie :doggie:

You mean that our government's corruptness isn't already obvious enough? :tong::tong::bigrin:

The real problem is that everyone talks about it, but not enough of us want to do something about it; or don't know how to do something about it.

If we could get past that, we could make our nation a better place.

My suggestion is to vote both of the major parties out of office and replace them with independents. Do that for about 5 or 6 voting cycles and then we can start with something (hopefully) less corrupt.
It sure wouldn't be worse than what we already have.

12voltman59
Apr 9, 2010, 9:34 PM
Well Doggie---I had not heard that story before--it did kinda sound sorta like a lot of the stuff the Tea Bagger types come up with--but hell--we are all guilty of falling for stuff like that on both sides of things---good that ya came and admitted that you jumped the gun on that one.

When it comes to people getting both special treatment and getting screwed by government---there might be extreme stuff at both ends--but when it washes out in the end--the goverment is an equal opportunity SCREWER!!!!

As we used to say in the Coast Guard-----Uncle Sam can screw ya good but he doesnt' ever bother to grease it up--and he sure don't give ya a kiss to boot!!! ::eek::eek:

:bigrin:

Doggie_Wood
Apr 10, 2010, 1:36 AM
You mean that our government's corruptness isn't already obvious enough? :tong::tong::bigrin:

The real problem is that everyone talks about it, but not enough of us want to do something about it; or don't know how to do something about it.

If we could get past that, we could make our nation a better place.

My suggestion is to vote both of the major parties out of office and replace them with independents. Do that for about 5 or 6 voting cycles and then we can start with something (hopefully) less corrupt.
It sure wouldn't be worse than what we already have.

I couldn't agree with you more on that point Falcon. Another good thing to do would to amend and insert term limits - say 6 years on two year bouts.
2 years in office - does good - re-elect for 2 more - then a mandatory 2 years in prison. :bigrin:

Doggie :doggie:

Herbwoman39
Apr 10, 2010, 3:00 AM
No sweat Doggie. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Would you like to learn a bit more about critical thinking and skepticism? I write a regular blog now called Fledgeling Skeptic. It's meant to help regular people become more scientifically and critically minded.

http://fledgelingskeptic.com

Doggie_Wood
Apr 10, 2010, 11:36 AM
No sweat Doggie. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Would you like to learn a bit more about critical thinking and skepticism? I write a regular blog now called Fledgeling Skeptic. It's meant to help regular people become more scientifically and critically minded.

http://fledgelingskeptic.com

Thanks Herby - I'll check it out - however, I don't think this one is manufactured and this is exactly the kind of thing that needs to stop. :banghead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=A6_xgKWzhRw

wildwestgoob
Apr 10, 2010, 1:03 PM
Ok folks, heres the deal, *I* happen to live not too far away from "Landers-McClarty" country (next county over) Lots of locals here buy from them since they happen to be the BIGGEST dealership/chain in the area (allegedly that means better prices, etc)

I can tell you there *is* some truth to that story.

Remember, all legends are *based* on at least ONE fact.

Fact is, Landers *is* the only chain of GM/Chrysler motors left in Northwest Arkansas. Could it be for the reasons stated above? Only some digging will tell for sure. I would not believe EVERYTHING you see on snopes... who exactly is it that polices SNOPES? WHO made the decision that snopes is THE TRUTH, point, game, match?

???????

I dont trust EITHER political party any further than I could THROW EM.
I would not put something like this past them, that is for sure.

Back to the grindstone... this kinda thing makes my blood pressure go up.

Keep em in check folks !

Trust NO ONE, check ALL the facts for your self.

rdy2go
Apr 11, 2010, 9:48 AM
speaking of GM, and Chrysler, and the big bailout. Did you notice that Ford didn't ask for the freebie. Rumour has it all they wanted was a line of credit and for something really bad to happen to Toyota! lol

Doggie_Wood
Apr 11, 2010, 11:02 PM
My next car is going to be a Ford . . . . . or a Mini . . . . . no, a Ford . . . . . hell, I'll decide when I get ready to but it. :tongue:

Doggie :doggie:

boca.openminded
Apr 11, 2010, 11:23 PM
Then again, the Republicans lie about everything and then blame the failures on the Democrats, while the Democrats lie about many things and blame it on the Republicans.

If we want to eliminate the problem, then we must eliminate both parties and start from scratch.



again I must agree with you. I've been saying this for years. The problem with this country is there are 2 sides (Rebublicans & Democrats) that will never see eye to eye.

A perfect example is the health care bill (which effects me bigtime). Did you see that vote results?

AND I QUOTE: "In the end, not a single Republican voted for the bill. "

are you telling me that not a single republican agreed with the bill OR did they vote only by the way of their party?

This is total 100% bullshit. This is why more Americans are hating this country. They only care about us if we are part of their party.

What happened to "We The People" ?

Doggie_Wood
Apr 11, 2010, 11:31 PM
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What happened to "We The People" ?

It went by the wayside when the senate and the house put themselves ABOVE the people that put them there. We have been forgot by the bureaucrats.
The career politicians care for only one thing and one thing only - their pocket books!

Doggie :doggie: