You'll drive what Comrade Obama wants you to drive, and you'll like it, Citizen.
Posted on 08/22/2011 3:16:55 AM PDT by Son House
RUSH: Here's TheHill.com. "Obama to Automakers." This is interesting. "The country’s automakers should ditch their focus on SUVs and trucks in favor of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, President Obama said Monday."
President Obama, who, as we all know, has had vast experience as the owner of an automobile company, a man who's worked the assembly line, he's worked the showroom floor, he's been in the design control center, he knows everything there is about the automobile business.
Obama said during a town hall forum in Cannon Falls, Minn, "You can’t just make money on SUVs and trucks. There is a place for SUVs and trucks, but as gas prices keep on going up, you have got to understand the market. People are going to try to save money.'"
So the man who is bankrupting the country, who is bankrupting business after business after business, said, , "You can’t just make money on SUVs and trucks. You've gotta understand the market."
This has gotta be the most painful joke in the history of the world. Cookie, is this on tape? Do I have this on the sound bite roster? Just flash me a yes or no and if I do I'll find it during the break. Okay, we don't have it. I bet it's not on tape.
I bet if it was on tape, the tape's been erased, it's been expunged, it's been degaussed, it's been burned.
"You can’t just make money on SUVs and trucks. There is a place for SUVs and trucks, but as gas prices keep on going up, you have got to understand the market."
The owner of two new hearses, don't call 'em buses, those are hearses. The guy who flies around on Air Force One. The CEO of the Grim Reaper Bus Company made those buses, said you've just gotta understand the market.
His favorite solar panel company just filed for bankruptcy. And then there's his favorite car that he's never driven, 125 Chevrolet Volts sold last month. You have to understand the market. Barack Obama saying we have to understand the market.
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RUSH: Audio sound bite 36, Cookie found it. The regime was unable to expunge this. Listen to this.
OBAMA: What we said was if we're gonna help ya then you've also gotta change your ways. You can't just make money on SUVs and -- and trucks. There's a place for SUVs and trucks, but as -- as gas prices keep on goin' up, you've gotta understand the market. People are gonna be trying to save money.
RUSH: This President Obama yesterday Cannon Falls, Minnesota, town hall, and he's talking about the automobile companies (interpreted): "Oh, we're gonna help you, but you gotta change your ways!
I, Barack Obama, know more about your business than you ever will. I've never been in your business, but I know more about it, and you gotta change your ways. You can't just make money on SUVs and trucks."
That's what they're making money on! That is precisely what they're making money on. "You gotta understand the market."
This is a joke. (laughing) Barack Obama telling anybody, "You gotta understand the market"? I can't believe the regime didn't do something about the tape.
China bought 18 million cars last year.
The US about 11 million.
When American buys 11 million cars, a significant number rolls off the back end as old clunkers.
Not so with China. They don’t have old cars to roll off the back end.
Behold why oil stays high, and is going higher.
Well, there is that thing about the pathetically weak Dollar policy "Helicopter Ben" is fronting.....
SUVs and trucks are what kept the Big Three afloat for years. It subsidized the making of passenger cars (which they were losing $$ on). It IS an issue that the Big Three are not profitable in this area. When Truck/SUV sales slowed due to recession & high fuel prices, 2/3 of them went bankrupt in 2008 (and Ford nearly did too).
The profitability issue was tied to two things: 1) lack of sales (due to poor brand design and quality) and 2) union labor strangling profits. Hopefully, these issues have abated to some degree. I really like Ford’s current lineup and will probably buy an Edge next time around.
Trucks and SUVs are what has kept these companies afloat.
Wonder if the UAW knows this.
More force from the obama regime.
When to the layoffs start up again?
You'll drive what Comrade Obama wants you to drive, and you'll like it, Citizen.
Cimmaron, by Cadillac!
*Nnoooooooooooooooooo!*
LOL. Now, that car was an utter disaster for GM: fatally flawed from concept to execution. A Chevy with a Caddy hood ornament.
“I know, let’s take a Cavalier, throw a Caddy badge on it... *giggle snicker* Then charge people MORE for the same car! They’ll never figure it out!”
“Genius work, you get a bonus!”
Or how about that “New GTO” brainchild.
Simply, it provides versatility, safety, comfort, power and utility that are not available in most other vehicles, certainly not in a tiny, cramped condescension LeftMobile.
It is about personal choice and freedom, AKA as the American way.
MY America, Kenyan, not your Communist vision of racist asset redistribution, and penalization of the productive.
“People are gonna be trying to save money.”
Exactly, and why I prefer a time-proven gas engine over some expensive, exotic battery experiment.
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