>More nigger racism on display from Obama.
>__________

>July 22, 2010
>Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures
>By William Tate

>The Obama administration, already under fire for unprecedented
>allegations of racial bias, faces a new bias claim from a most
>unlikely source: one of the administration's own inspectors general.

>Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto
>industry bailout -- closures the Obama administration forced on
>General Motors and Chrysler -- were based in part on race and gender,
>according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special
>Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky.

>[D]ealerships were retained because they were recently appointed, were
>key wholesale parts dealers, or were minority- or woman-owned
>dealerships. [Emphasis added.]

>Thus, to meet numbers forced on them by the Obama administration,
>General Motors and Chrysler were forced to shutter other, potentially
>more viable, dealerships. The livelihood of potentially tens of
>thousands of families was thus eliminated simply because their
>dealerships were not minority- or woman-owned.

>As has been widely reported, the Inspector General's study skewered
>the Obama Gang for strong-arming the companies into closing 2,000
>dealerships, costing an estimated 100,000 people their jobs during a
>recession.

>But the news media has ignored key elements of Barofsky's report --
>elements that are far more damaging, if possible, to Obama. As we
>reported earlier in the week, a top Obama official, manufacturing czar
>and "Auto Team" leader Ron Bloom admitted that the dealerships could
>have been kept open, saving those jobs, "but that doing so would have
>been inconsistent with the President's mandate for 'shared
>sacrifice.'"

>Barofsky says the administration insisted on the closings even though
>a GM official told him

>that GM would usually save 'not one damn cent' by closing any
>particular dealership. ... Furthermore, a GM official stated that
>removing a dealership from the network does not save money for GM --
>it might even cost GM money -- and that savings cannot be attributed
>or assigned to any one dealership.

>And a reading of the IG's study makes plain that some dealership
>closings forced by the administration were based largely on politics.

>The report is highly critical of how dealerships were selected for
>closure, or termination. Barofsky notes that

>experts said that while metro areas were oversaturated with GM and
>Chrysler dealerships and reductions were needed in these areas, this
>was not the case in rural areas where GM and Chrysler had an advantage
>over their import competitors. [...]

>Although sales volume in small towns may be lower, the cost of
>operating dealerships in small towns is lower as well.  In addition,
>closing dealerships in small towns could ruin the "historic
>relationship" that GM has had with residents in small towns and force
>buyers to drive to metro areas, where there are more competitors. In
>the worst case, the loss of market share in small and medium-sized
>markets could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and
>Chrysler, the (the Center for Automotive Research) representative
>said.  Representatives from the National Automobile Dealers
>Association also concurred that dealership terminations would cause GM
>and Chrysler to lose market share in rural areas. [Emphasis added.]

>Nevertheless, as Barofsky notes, "ultimately close to half of all of
>the GM dealerships identified for termination were in rural areas."

>That is where raw, hard, sewage-filled Chicago politics came into
>play.

>Records indicate that in 2008, Obama lost the vote totals in the
>nation's 1,300 rural counties by nearly 80%.

>The Obama administration's insistence on radical numbers of closures
>ended up shuttering dealerships in those rural areas
>disproportionately, while dealerships and jobs in metro areas --
>Obama's geographical base -- were left open.

>Additionally, it has been widely theorized that dealers targeted for
>closure as a result of Obama's interference were predominantly those
>who donated campaign contributions to Republicans. Although evidence
>to date is largely anecdotal, given what we've already reported about
>the Obama administration's handling of the auto bailout, such
>speculation does have considerable grounds for support.

>While that last point is leaves room for debate, the details contained
>in the Barofsky report are not. As Barofsky points out, the Obama
>administration was given an advance copy, and "Treasury [the Obama
>Treasury Department] might not agree with how the audit's conclusions
>portray the Auto Team's decision making or with the lessons that
>SIGTARP has drawn from those facts, but it should be made clear that
>Treasury has not challenged the essential underlying facts upon which
>those conclusions are based."

>Included among those undisputed facts:

>-"[D]ealerships were retained because they were ... minority- or
>woman-owned dealerships";

>-Thousands of jobs were lost, unnecessarily, due specifically to
>Obama's "mandate for shared sacrifice";

>-A disproportionate number of Obama-forced closings were of rural
>dealerships, in areas unfriendly to Obama, even though such closures
>could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and Chrysler.

>The media, of course, remain mute about these serious allegations in
>the Barofsky report. They have limited their coverage to the job loss
>numbers and tried to place the blame on Treasury Secretary Turbo-Tax
>Tim Geithner.

>For now.

>Before long, we'll be reading that it was somehow Bush's fault.

>http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthin...

> >More nigger racism on display from Obama.
> >__________

> >July 22, 2010
> >Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures
> >By William Tate

> >The Obama administration, already under fire for unprecedented
> >allegations of racial bias, faces a new bias claim from a most
> >unlikely source: one of the administration's own inspectors general.

> >Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto
> >industry bailout -- closures the Obama administration forced on
> >General Motors and Chrysler -- were based in part on race and gender,
> >according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special
> >Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky.

> >[D]ealerships were retained because they were recently appointed, were
> >key wholesale parts dealers, or were minority- or woman-owned
> >dealerships. [Emphasis added.]

> >Thus, to meet numbers forced on them by the Obama administration,
> >General Motors and Chrysler were forced to shutter other, potentially
> >more viable, dealerships. The livelihood of potentially tens of
> >thousands of families was thus eliminated simply because their
> >dealerships were not minority- or woman-owned.

> >As has been widely reported, the Inspector General's study skewered
> >the Obama Gang for strong-arming the companies into closing 2,000
> >dealerships, costing an estimated 100,000 people their jobs during a
> >recession.

> >But the news media has ignored key elements of Barofsky's report --
> >elements that are far more damaging, if possible, to Obama. As we
> >reported earlier in the week, a top Obama official, manufacturing czar
> >and "Auto Team" leader Ron Bloom admitted that the dealerships could
> >have been kept open, saving those jobs, "but that doing so would have
> >been inconsistent with the President's mandate for 'shared
> >sacrifice.'"

> >Barofsky says the administration insisted on the closings even though
> >a GM official told him

> >that GM would usually save 'not one damn cent' by closing any
> >particular dealership. ... Furthermore, a GM official stated that
> >removing a dealership from the network does not save money for GM --
> >it might even cost GM money -- and that savings cannot be attributed
> >or assigned to any one dealership.

> >And a reading of the IG's study makes plain that some dealership
> >closings forced by the administration were based largely on politics.

> >The report is highly critical of how dealerships were selected for
> >closure, or termination. Barofsky notes that

> >experts said that while metro areas were oversaturated with GM and
> >Chrysler dealerships and reductions were needed in these areas, this
> >was not the case in rural areas where GM and Chrysler had an advantage
> >over their import competitors. [...]

> >Although sales volume in small towns may be lower, the cost of
> >operating dealerships in small towns is lower as well.  In addition,
> >closing dealerships in small towns could ruin the "historic
> >relationship" that GM has had with residents in small towns and force
> >buyers to drive to metro areas, where there are more competitors. In
> >the worst case, the loss of market share in small and medium-sized
> >markets could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and
> >Chrysler, the (the Center for Automotive Research) representative
> >said.  Representatives from the National Automobile Dealers
> >Association also concurred that dealership terminations would cause GM
> >and Chrysler to lose market share in rural areas. [Emphasis added.]

> >Nevertheless, as Barofsky notes, "ultimately close to half of all of
> >the GM dealerships identified for termination were in rural areas."

> >That is where raw, hard, sewage-filled Chicago politics came into
> >play.

> >Records indicate that in 2008, Obama lost the vote totals in the
> >nation's 1,300 rural counties by nearly 80%.

> >The Obama administration's insistence on radical numbers of closures
> >ended up shuttering dealerships in those rural areas
> >disproportionately, while dealerships and jobs in metro areas --
> >Obama's geographical base -- were left open.

> >Additionally, it has been widely theorized that dealers targeted for
> >closure as a result of Obama's interference were predominantly those
> >who donated campaign contributions to Republicans. Although evidence
> >to date is largely anecdotal, given what we've already reported about
> >the Obama administration's handling of the auto bailout, such
> >speculation does have considerable grounds for support.

> >While that last point is leaves room for debate, the details contained
> >in the Barofsky report are not. As Barofsky points out, the Obama
> >administration was given an advance copy, and "Treasury [the Obama
> >Treasury Department] might not agree with how the audit's conclusions
> >portray the Auto Team's decision making or with the lessons that
> >SIGTARP has drawn from those facts, but it should be made clear that
> >Treasury has not challenged the essential underlying facts upon which
> >those conclusions are based."

> >Included among those undisputed facts:

> >-"[D]ealerships were retained because they were ... minority- or
> >woman-owned dealerships";

> >-Thousands of jobs were lost, unnecessarily, due specifically to
> >Obama's "mandate for shared sacrifice";

> >-A disproportionate number of Obama-forced closings were of rural
> >dealerships, in areas unfriendly to Obama, even though such closures
> >could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and Chrysler.

> >The media, of course, remain mute about these serious allegations in
> >the Barofsky report. They have limited their coverage to the job loss
> >numbers and tried to place the blame on Treasury Secretary Turbo-Tax
> >Tim Geithner.

> >For now.

> >Before long, we'll be reading that it was somehow Bush's fault.

> >http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthin...

> And the beat goes on!

> It wasn't just white dealerships, it was conservative dealerships.  If
> you donated to his campaign you were alright, if you didn't, too bad.
> After all, why would you close dealerships that were profitable and
> selling your GM cars.  You increase unemployment and you decrease the
> number of cars you sell.  Totally political and totally wrong.

> DraggonFodder

> It wasn't just white dealerships, it was conservative dealerships.  If
> you donated to his campaign you were alright, if you didn't, too bad.
> After all, why would you close dealerships that were profitable and
> selling your GM cars.  You increase unemployment and you decrease the
> number of cars you sell.  Totally political and totally wrong.

> DraggonFodder

> Cheney?<<<<<<<<<<<

> That damn Dick Cheney.
> He made the DOW go to 14,000, the SOB.

> Cheney?<<<<<<<<<<<

> That damn Dick Cheney.
> He made the DOW go to 14,000, the SOB.

>>> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:50:24 GMT, Gettin'Some@YoMomma'sPlace (Brand
>>> New Day, Same Old Shit) wrote:

>>>> More nigger racism on display from Obama.
>>>> __________

>>>> July 22, 2010
>>>> Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures
>>>> By William Tate

>>>> The Obama administration, already under fire for unprecedented
>>>> allegations of racial bias, faces a new bias claim from a most
>>>> unlikely source: one of the administration's own inspectors general.

>>>> Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto
>>>> industry bailout -- closures the Obama administration forced on
>>>> General Motors and Chrysler -- were based in part on race and gender,
>>>> according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special
>>>> Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky.

>>>> [D]ealerships were retained because they were recently appointed, were
>>>> key wholesale parts dealers, or were minority- or woman-owned
>>>> dealerships. [Emphasis added.]

>>>> Thus, to meet numbers forced on them by the Obama administration,
>>>> General Motors and Chrysler were forced to shutter other, potentially
>>>> more viable, dealerships. The livelihood of potentially tens of
>>>> thousands of families was thus eliminated simply because their
>>>> dealerships were not minority- or woman-owned.

>>>> As has been widely reported, the Inspector General's study skewered
>>>> the Obama Gang for strong-arming the companies into closing 2,000
>>>> dealerships, costing an estimated 100,000 people their jobs during a
>>>> recession.

>>>> But the news media has ignored key elements of Barofsky's report --
>>>> elements that are far more damaging, if possible, to Obama. As we
>>>> reported earlier in the week, a top Obama official, manufacturing czar
>>>> and "Auto Team" leader Ron Bloom admitted that the dealerships could
>>>> have been kept open, saving those jobs, "but that doing so would have
>>>> been inconsistent with the President's mandate for 'shared
>>>> sacrifice.'"

>>>> Barofsky says the administration insisted on the closings even though
>>>> a GM official told him

>>>> that GM would usually save 'not one damn cent' by closing any
>>>> particular dealership. ... Furthermore, a GM official stated that
>>>> removing a dealership from the network does not save money for GM --
>>>> it might even cost GM money -- and that savings cannot be attributed
>>>> or assigned to any one dealership.

>>>> And a reading of the IG's study makes plain that some dealership
>>>> closings forced by the administration were based largely on politics.

>>>> The report is highly critical of how dealerships were selected for
>>>> closure, or termination. Barofsky notes that

>>>> experts said that while metro areas were oversaturated with GM and
>>>> Chrysler dealerships and reductions were needed in these areas, this
>>>> was not the case in rural areas where GM and Chrysler had an advantage
>>>> over their import competitors. [...]

>>>> Although sales volume in small towns may be lower, the cost of
>>>> operating dealerships in small towns is lower as well.  In addition,
>>>> closing dealerships in small towns could ruin the "historic
>>>> relationship" that GM has had with residents in small towns and force
>>>> buyers to drive to metro areas, where there are more competitors. In
>>>> the worst case, the loss of market share in small and medium-sized
>>>> markets could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and
>>>> Chrysler, the (the Center for Automotive Research) representative
>>>> said.  Representatives from the National Automobile Dealers
>>>> Association also concurred that dealership terminations would cause GM
>>>> and Chrysler to lose market share in rural areas. [Emphasis added.]

>>>> Nevertheless, as Barofsky notes, "ultimately close to half of all of
>>>> the GM dealerships identified for termination were in rural areas."

>>>> That is where raw, hard, sewage-filled Chicago politics came into
>>>> play.

>>>> Records indicate that in 2008, Obama lost the vote totals in the
>>>> nation's 1,300 rural counties by nearly 80%.

>>>> The Obama administration's insistence on radical numbers of closures
>>>> ended up shuttering dealerships in those rural areas
>>>> disproportionately, while dealerships and jobs in metro areas --
>>>> Obama's geographical base -- were left open.

>>>> Additionally, it has been widely theorized that dealers targeted for
>>>> closure as a result of Obama's interference were predominantly those
>>>> who donated campaign contributions to Republicans. Although evidence
>>>> to date is largely anecdotal, given what we've already reported about
>>>> the Obama administration's handling of the auto bailout, such
>>>> speculation does have considerable grounds for support.

>>>> While that last point is leaves room for debate, the details contained
>>>> in the Barofsky report are not. As Barofsky points out, the Obama
>>>> administration was given an advance copy, and "Treasury [the Obama
>>>> Treasury Department] might not agree with how the audit's conclusions
>>>> portray the Auto Team's decision making or with the lessons that
>>>> SIGTARP has drawn from those facts, but it should be made clear that
>>>> Treasury has not challenged the essential underlying facts upon which
>>>> those conclusions are based."

>>>> Included among those undisputed facts:

>>>> -"[D]ealerships were retained because they were ... minority- or
>>>> woman-owned dealerships";

>>>> -Thousands of jobs were lost, unnecessarily, due specifically to
>>>> Obama's "mandate for shared sacrifice";

>>>> -A disproportionate number of Obama-forced closings were of rural
>>>> dealerships, in areas unfriendly to Obama, even though such closures
>>>> could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and Chrysler.

>>>> The media, of course, remain mute about these serious allegations in
>>>> the Barofsky report. They have limited their coverage to the job loss
>>>> numbers and tried to place the blame on Treasury Secretary Turbo-Tax
>>>> Tim Geithner.

>>>> For now.

>>>> Before long, we'll be reading that it was somehow Bush's fault.

>>>> http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthin...

>>> And the beat goes on!

>> It wasn't just white dealerships, it was conservative dealerships.  If
>> you donated to his campaign you were alright, if you didn't, too bad.
>> After all, why would you close dealerships that were profitable and
>> selling your GM cars.  You increase unemployment and you decrease the
>> number of cars you sell.  Totally political and totally wrong.

>> DraggonFodder

> Because the Clampetts were the biggest CHEATS around, dropping sales
> made cheney brainies unprofitable for the US makers, coupled with piss
> poor customer satisfaction. Will repugnents blame Michelle for Mercury
> closing?

> > On Jul 23, 7:13 am, DraggonFodder<commogu...@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> On Jul 23, 7:56 am, tripletask@gmail..com wrote:

> >>> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:50:24 GMT, Gettin'Some@YoMomma'sPlace (Brand
> >>> New Day, Same Old Shit) wrote:

> >>>> More nigger racism on display from Obama.
> >>>> __________

> >>>> July 22, 2010
> >>>> Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures
> >>>> By William Tate

> >>>> The Obama administration, already under fire for unprecedented
> >>>> allegations of racial bias, faces a new bias claim from a most
> >>>> unlikely source: one of the administration's own inspectors general.

> >>>> Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto
> >>>> industry bailout -- closures the Obama administration forced on
> >>>> General Motors and Chrysler -- were based in part on race and gender,
> >>>> according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special
> >>>> Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky.

> >>>> [D]ealerships were retained because they were recently appointed, were
> >>>> key wholesale parts dealers, or were minority- or woman-owned
> >>>> dealerships. [Emphasis added.]

> >>>> Thus, to meet numbers forced on them by the Obama administration,
> >>>> General Motors and Chrysler were forced to shutter other, potentially
> >>>> more viable, dealerships. The livelihood of potentially tens of
> >>>> thousands of families was thus eliminated simply because their
> >>>> dealerships were not minority- or woman-owned.

> >>>> As has been widely reported, the Inspector General's study skewered
> >>>> the Obama Gang for strong-arming the companies into closing 2,000
> >>>> dealerships, costing an estimated 100,000 people their jobs during a
> >>>> recession.

> >>>> But the news media has ignored key elements of Barofsky's report --
> >>>> elements that are far more damaging, if possible, to Obama. As we
> >>>> reported earlier in the week, a top Obama official, manufacturing czar
> >>>> and "Auto Team" leader Ron Bloom admitted that the dealerships could
> >>>> have been kept open, saving those jobs, "but that doing so would have
> >>>> been inconsistent with the President's mandate for 'shared
> >>>> sacrifice.'"

> >>>> Barofsky says the administration insisted on the closings even though
> >>>> a GM official told him

> >>>> that GM would usually save 'not one damn cent' by closing any
> >>>> particular dealership. ... Furthermore, a GM official stated that
> >>>> removing a dealership from the network does not save money for GM --
> >>>> it might even cost GM money -- and that savings cannot be attributed
> >>>> or assigned to any one dealership.

> >>>> And a reading of the IG's study makes plain that some dealership
> >>>> closings forced by the administration were based largely on politics.

> >>>> The report is highly critical of how dealerships were selected for
> >>>> closure, or termination. Barofsky notes that

> >>>> experts said that while metro areas were oversaturated with GM and
> >>>> Chrysler dealerships and reductions were needed in these areas, this
> >>>> was not the case in rural areas where GM and Chrysler had an advantage
> >>>> over their import competitors. [...]

> >>>> Although sales volume in small towns may be lower, the cost of
> >>>> operating dealerships in small towns is lower as well.  In addition,
> >>>> closing dealerships in small towns could ruin the "historic
> >>>> relationship" that GM has had with residents in small towns and force
> >>>> buyers to drive to metro areas, where there are more competitors. In
> >>>> the worst case, the loss of market share in small and medium-sized
> >>>> markets could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and
> >>>> Chrysler, the (the Center for Automotive Research) representative
> >>>> said.  Representatives from the National Automobile Dealers
> >>>> Association also concurred that dealership terminations would cause GM
> >>>> and Chrysler to lose market share in rural areas. [Emphasis added.]

> >>>> Nevertheless, as Barofsky notes, "ultimately close to half of all of
> >>>> the GM dealerships identified for termination were in rural areas."

> >>>> That is where raw, hard, sewage-filled Chicago politics came into
> >>>> play.

> >>>> Records indicate that in 2008, Obama lost the vote totals in the
> >>>> nation's 1,300 rural counties by nearly 80%.

> >>>> The Obama administration's insistence on radical numbers of closures
> >>>> ended up shuttering dealerships in those rural areas
> >>>> disproportionately, while dealerships and jobs in metro areas --
> >>>> Obama's geographical base -- were left open.

> >>>> Additionally, it has been widely theorized that dealers targeted for
> >>>> closure as a result of Obama's interference were predominantly those
> >>>> who donated campaign contributions to Republicans. Although evidence
> >>>> to date is largely anecdotal, given what we've already reported about
> >>>> the Obama administration's handling of the auto bailout, such
> >>>> speculation does have considerable grounds for support.

> >>>> While that last point is leaves room for debate, the details contained
> >>>> in the Barofsky report are not. As Barofsky points out, the Obama
> >>>> administration was given an advance copy, and "Treasury [the Obama
> >>>> Treasury Department] might not agree with how the audit's conclusions
> >>>> portray the Auto Team's decision making or with the lessons that
> >>>> SIGTARP has drawn from those facts, but it should be made clear that
> >>>> Treasury has not challenged the essential underlying facts upon which
> >>>> those conclusions are based."

> >>>> Included among those undisputed facts:

> >>>> -"[D]ealerships were retained because they were ... minority- or
> >>>> woman-owned dealerships";

> >>>> -Thousands of jobs were lost, unnecessarily, due specifically to
> >>>> Obama's "mandate for shared sacrifice";

> >>>> -A disproportionate number of Obama-forced closings were of rural
> >>>> dealerships, in areas unfriendly to Obama, even though such closures
> >>>> could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and Chrysler.

> >>>> The media, of course, remain mute about these serious allegations in
> >>>> the Barofsky report. They have limited their coverage to the job loss
> >>>> numbers and tried to place the blame on Treasury Secretary Turbo-Tax
> >>>> Tim Geithner.

> >>>> For now.

> >>>> Before long, we'll be reading that it was somehow Bush's fault.

> >>>>http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthin...

> >>> And the beat goes on!

> >> It wasn't just white dealerships, it was conservative dealerships.  If
> >> you donated to his campaign you were alright, if you didn't, too bad.
> >> After all, why would you close dealerships that were profitable and
> >> selling your GM cars.  You increase unemployment and you decrease the
> >> number of cars you sell.  Totally political and totally wrong.

> >> DraggonFodder

> > Because the Clampetts were the biggest CHEATS around, dropping sales
> > made cheney brainies unprofitable for the US makers, coupled with piss
> > poor customer satisfaction. Will repugnents blame Michelle for Mercury
> > closing?

> Huh? I dont have my decoder ring handy.
> Isn't 'cheney-brainies' a oxymoron?

> CLAMPETTS? CHENEY BRANIES?  explain plez?

>>> More nigger racism on display from Obama.
>>> __________

>>> July 22, 2010
>>> Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures
>>> By William Tate

>>> The Obama administration, already under fire for unprecedented
>>> allegations of racial bias, faces a new bias claim from a most
>>> unlikely source: one of the administration's own inspectors general.

>>> Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto
>>> industry bailout -- closures the Obama administration forced on
>>> General Motors and Chrysler -- were based in part on race and gender,
>>> according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special
>>> Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky.

>>> [D]ealerships were retained because they were recently appointed, were
>>> key wholesale parts dealers, or were minority- or woman-owned
>>> dealerships. [Emphasis added.]

>>> Thus, to meet numbers forced on them by the Obama administration,
>>> General Motors and Chrysler were forced to shutter other, potentially
>>> more viable, dealerships. The livelihood of potentially tens of
>>> thousands of families was thus eliminated simply because their
>>> dealerships were not minority- or woman-owned.

>>> As has been widely reported, the Inspector General's study skewered
>>> the Obama Gang for strong-arming the companies into closing 2,000
>>> dealerships, costing an estimated 100,000 people their jobs during a
>>> recession.

>>> But the news media has ignored key elements of Barofsky's report --
>>> elements that are far more damaging, if possible, to Obama. As we
>>> reported earlier in the week, a top Obama official, manufacturing czar
>>> and "Auto Team" leader Ron Bloom admitted that the dealerships could
>>> have been kept open, saving those jobs, "but that doing so would have
>>> been inconsistent with the President's mandate for 'shared
>>> sacrifice.'"

>>> Barofsky says the administration insisted on the closings even though
>>> a GM official told him

>>> that GM would usually save 'not one damn cent' by closing any
>>> particular dealership. ... Furthermore, a GM official stated that
>>> removing a dealership from the network does not save money for GM --
>>> it might even cost GM money -- and that savings cannot be attributed
>>> or assigned to any one dealership.

>>> And a reading of the IG's study makes plain that some dealership
>>> closings forced by the administration were based largely on politics.

>>> The report is highly critical of how dealerships were selected for
>>> closure, or termination. Barofsky notes that

>>> experts said that while metro areas were oversaturated with GM and
>>> Chrysler dealerships and reductions were needed in these areas, this
>>> was not the case in rural areas where GM and Chrysler had an advantage
>>> over their import competitors. [...]

>>> Although sales volume in small towns may be lower, the cost of
>>> operating dealerships in small towns is lower as well.  In addition,
>>> closing dealerships in small towns could ruin the "historic
>>> relationship" that GM has had with residents in small towns and force
>>> buyers to drive to metro areas, where there are more competitors. In
>>> the worst case, the loss of market share in small and medium-sized
>>> markets could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and
>>> Chrysler, the (the Center for Automotive Research) representative
>>> said.  Representatives from the National Automobile Dealers
>>> Association also concurred that dealership terminations would cause GM
>>> and Chrysler to lose market share in rural areas. [Emphasis added.]

>>> Nevertheless, as Barofsky notes, "ultimately close to half of all of
>>> the GM dealerships identified for termination were in rural areas."

>>> That is where raw, hard, sewage-filled Chicago politics came into
>>> play.

>>> Records indicate that in 2008, Obama lost the vote totals in the
>>> nation's 1,300 rural counties by nearly 80%.

>>> The Obama administration's insistence on radical numbers of closures
>>> ended up shuttering dealerships in those rural areas
>>> disproportionately, while dealerships and jobs in metro areas --
>>> Obama's geographical base -- were left open.

>>> Additionally, it has been widely theorized that dealers targeted for
>>> closure as a result of Obama's interference were predominantly those
>>> who donated campaign contributions to Republicans. Although evidence
>>> to date is largely anecdotal, given what we've already reported about
>>> the Obama administration's handling of the auto bailout, such
>>> speculation does have considerable grounds for support.

>>> While that last point is leaves room for debate, the details contained
>>> in the Barofsky report are not. As Barofsky points out, the Obama
>>> administration was given an advance copy, and "Treasury [the Obama
>>> Treasury Department] might not agree with how the audit's conclusions
>>> portray the Auto Team's decision making or with the lessons that
>>> SIGTARP has drawn from those facts, but it should be made clear that
>>> Treasury has not challenged the essential underlying facts upon which
>>> those conclusions are based."

>>> Included among those undisputed facts:

>>> -"[D]ealerships were retained because they were ... minority- or
>>> woman-owned dealerships";

>>> -Thousands of jobs were lost, unnecessarily, due specifically to
>>> Obama's "mandate for shared sacrifice";

>>> -A disproportionate number of Obama-forced closings were of rural
>>> dealerships, in areas unfriendly to Obama, even though such closures
>>> could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and Chrysler.

>>> The media, of course, remain mute about these serious allegations in
>>> the Barofsky report. They have limited their coverage to the job loss
>>> numbers and tried to place the blame on Treasury Secretary Turbo-Tax
>>> Tim Geithner.

>>> For now.

>>> Before long, we'll be reading that it was somehow Bush's fault.

>>> http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthin...

>> And the beat goes on!

> It wasn't just white dealerships, it was conservative dealerships.  If
> you donated to his campaign you were alright, if you didn't, too bad.
> After all, why would you close dealerships that were profitable and
> selling your GM cars.  You increase unemployment and you decrease the
> number of cars you sell.  Totally political and totally wrong.

> DraggonFodder

> > It wasn't just white dealerships, it was conservative dealerships.  If
> > you donated to his campaign you were alright, if you didn't, too bad.
> > After all, why would you close dealerships that were profitable and
> > selling your GM cars.  You increase unemployment and you decrease the
> > number of cars you sell.  Totally political and totally wrong.

> > DraggonFodder

> Nonsense.  Do you seriously think a president of the US
> personally scanned the backgrounds of thousands of dealers?

> > On Jul 23, 7:56 am, tripletask@gmail..com wrote:
> >> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:50:24 GMT, Gettin'Some@YoMomma'sPlace (Brand
> >> New Day, Same Old Shit) wrote:

> >>> More nigger racism on display from Obama.
> >>> __________

> >>> July 22, 2010
> >>> Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures
> >>> By William Tate

> >>> The Obama administration, already under fire for unprecedented
> >>> allegations of racial bias, faces a new bias claim from a most
> >>> unlikely source: one of the administration's own inspectors general.

> >>> Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto
> >>> industry bailout -- closures the Obama administration forced on
> >>> General Motors and Chrysler -- were based in part on race and gender,
> >>> according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special
> >>> Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky.

> >>> [D]ealerships were retained because they were recently appointed, were
> >>> key wholesale parts dealers, or were minority- or woman-owned
> >>> dealerships. [Emphasis added.]

> >>> Thus, to meet numbers forced on them by the Obama administration,
> >>> General Motors and Chrysler were forced to shutter other, potentially
> >>> more viable, dealerships. The livelihood of potentially tens of
> >>> thousands of families was thus eliminated simply because their
> >>> dealerships were not minority- or woman-owned.

> >>> As has been widely reported, the Inspector General's study skewered
> >>> the Obama Gang for strong-arming the companies into closing 2,000
> >>> dealerships, costing an estimated 100,000 people their jobs during a
> >>> recession.

> >>> But the news media has ignored key elements of Barofsky's report --
> >>> elements that are far more damaging, if possible, to Obama. As we
> >>> reported earlier in the week, a top Obama official, manufacturing czar
> >>> and "Auto Team" leader Ron Bloom admitted that the dealerships could
> >>> have been kept open, saving those jobs, "but that doing so would have
> >>> been inconsistent with the President's mandate for 'shared
> >>> sacrifice.'"

> >>> Barofsky says the administration insisted on the closings even though
> >>> a GM official told him

> >>> that GM would usually save 'not one damn cent' by closing any
> >>> particular dealership. ... Furthermore, a GM official stated that
> >>> removing a dealership from the network does not save money for GM --
> >>> it might even cost GM money -- and that savings cannot be attributed
> >>> or assigned to any one dealership.

> >>> And a reading of the IG's study makes plain that some dealership
> >>> closings forced by the administration were based largely on politics.

> >>> The report is highly critical of how dealerships were selected for
> >>> closure, or termination. Barofsky notes that

> >>> experts said that while metro areas were oversaturated with GM and
> >>> Chrysler dealerships and reductions were needed in these areas, this
> >>> was not the case in rural areas where GM and Chrysler had an advantage
> >>> over their import competitors. [...]

> >>> Although sales volume in small towns may be lower, the cost of
> >>> operating dealerships in small towns is lower as well.  In addition,
> >>> closing dealerships in small towns could ruin the "historic
> >>> relationship" that GM has had with residents in small towns and force
> >>> buyers to drive to metro areas, where there are more competitors. In
> >>> the worst case, the loss of market share in small and medium-sized
> >>> markets could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and
> >>> Chrysler, the (the Center for Automotive Research) representative
> >>> said.  Representatives from the National Automobile Dealers
> >>> Association also concurred that dealership terminations would cause GM
> >>> and Chrysler to lose market share in rural areas. [Emphasis added.]

> >>> Nevertheless, as Barofsky notes, "ultimately close to half of all of
> >>> the GM dealerships identified for termination were in rural areas."

> >>> That is where raw, hard, sewage-filled Chicago politics came into
> >>> play.

> >>> Records indicate that in 2008, Obama lost the vote totals in the
> >>> nation's 1,300 rural counties by nearly 80%.

> >>> The Obama administration's insistence on radical numbers of closures
> >>> ended up shuttering dealerships in those rural areas
> >>> disproportionately, while dealerships and jobs in metro areas --
> >>> Obama's geographical base -- were left open.

> >>> Additionally, it has been widely theorized that dealers targeted for
> >>> closure as a result of Obama's interference were predominantly those
> >>> who donated campaign contributions to Republicans. Although evidence
> >>> to date is largely anecdotal, given what we've already reported about
> >>> the Obama administration's handling of the auto bailout, such
> >>> speculation does have considerable grounds for support.

> >>> While that last point is leaves room for debate, the details contained
> >>> in the Barofsky report are not. As Barofsky points out, the Obama
> >>> administration was given an advance copy, and "Treasury [the Obama
> >>> Treasury Department] might not agree with how the audit's conclusions
> >>> portray the Auto Team's decision making or with the lessons that
> >>> SIGTARP has drawn from those facts, but it should be made clear that
> >>> Treasury has not challenged the essential underlying facts upon which
> >>> those conclusions are based."

> >>> Included among those undisputed facts:

> >>> -"[D]ealerships were retained because they were ... minority- or
> >>> woman-owned dealerships";

> >>> -Thousands of jobs were lost, unnecessarily, due specifically to
> >>> Obama's "mandate for shared sacrifice";

> >>> -A disproportionate number of Obama-forced closings were of rural
> >>> dealerships, in areas unfriendly to Obama, even though such closures
> >>> could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and Chrysler.

> >>> The media, of course, remain mute about these serious allegations in
> >>> the Barofsky report. They have limited their coverage to the job loss
> >>> numbers and tried to place the blame on Treasury Secretary Turbo-Tax
> >>> Tim Geithner.

> >>> For now.

> >>> Before long, we'll be reading that it was somehow Bush's fault.

> >>>http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthin...

> >> And the beat goes on!

> > It wasn't just white dealerships, it was conservative dealerships.  If
> > you donated to his campaign you were alright, if you didn't, too bad.
> > After all, why would you close dealerships that were profitable and
> > selling your GM cars.  You increase unemployment and you decrease the
> > number of cars you sell.  Totally political and totally wrong.

> > DraggonFodder

> Nonsense.  Do you seriously think a president of the US
> personally scanned the backgrounds of thousands of dealers?

> > > It wasn't just white dealerships, it was conservative dealerships.  If
> > > you donated to his campaign you were alright, if you didn't, too bad.
> > > After all, why would you close dealerships that were profitable and
> > > selling your GM cars.  You increase unemployment and you decrease the
> > > number of cars you sell.  Totally political and totally wrong.

> > > DraggonFodder

> > Nonsense.  Do you seriously think a president of the US
> > personally scanned the backgrounds of thousands of dealers?

> Hey.. you're talking to the same guys that wanted Obama to put on a
> wet suit, dive down a mile and close the BP well single handed.  Then
> they got a little smarter and insisted that Obama leave Washington and
> run the country out of a destroyer parked in the Gulf.  At least
> that's what I gleaned from a nauseating day listening to hatemonger
> radio.

>>>> It wasn't just white dealerships, it was conservative dealerships.  If
>>>> you donated to his campaign you were alright, if you didn't, too bad.
>>>> After all, why would you close dealerships that were profitable and
>>>> selling your GM cars.  You increase unemployment and you decrease the
>>>> number of cars you sell.  Totally political and totally wrong.

>>>> DraggonFodder

>>> Nonsense.  Do you seriously think a president of the US
>>> personally scanned the backgrounds of thousands of dealers?

>> Hey.. you're talking to the same guys that wanted Obama to put on a
>> wet suit, dive down a mile and close the BP well single handed.  Then
>> they got a little smarter and insisted that Obama leave Washington and
>> run the country out of a destroyer parked in the Gulf.  At least
>> that's what I gleaned from a nauseating day listening to hatemonger
>> radio.

> Hey, he plays golf weekly and basket ball, why not scuba diving.

> DraggonFodder
> So you have been listening to the lefty news radio.  You should try
> Glen Beck or Rush.  They stick the knife in with facts to back it up.
> Lefties just call everyone racists.  Can't wait until they use Bush to
> campaign against again.  Old tactic won't work this time.

> > Nonsense.  Do you seriously think a president of the US
> > personally scanned the backgrounds of thousands of dealers?

> No, but I bet he had staff to do it for him.

> Ever listen to Michael Savage and The Savage Nation?  Fun to listen to
> driving down the highway 3-6pm PDT but another right wing freak show.

> However, if
> you have autistic kids, he is not a lot of fun.

> "I'll tell you what autism is.  In 99% of the cases it's a brat who
> hasn't been told to cut the act out."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwnD_o-FFbU