EDITORIAL: Obama: Stop selling pickup trucks

The Washington Times ^ | August 22, 2011 | Editorial

[jazusamo]

You bet he lies! I love these clips of him guaranteeing the warranties.

[TaMoDee]

Hey BO, You’ll get my Dodge Cummins when you pry my cold dead hands from the steering wheel.

[Lorianne]

If they don’t make smaller cars, and their market dries up because people want smaller cars ... DON’T BAIL THEM OUT.

It is so simple I could scream.

What is so hard to understand? This is Business 101.
If you don’t know your market and you make the wrong things that people don’t want to buy, you go OUT OF BUSINESS.

Except in bizzaro America-land where we bail out failed companies. How many times have we bailed out auto companies in the last 35 years or so?

ENOUGH!

[jazusamo]

Over the years I owned for different Ford pickups. I didn't need them for a business I needed them for working on my own places, hunting and camping, I could not have not had pickups. This clown in the WH has no idea what I'm talking about.

[clearcarbon]

"Obama even argued that Ford, which didn’t take a federal handout, had him to thank for its success."

He's right. After the bailout, no one wanted an obama motors group (OMG) GM or Chrysler vehicle.

[jazusamo]

for = four

[Lorianne]

Don’t forget, pick-up truck drivers are likely racists or sending racist messages.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433618/posts

[21twelve]

“..how wealth is created.”

“Well duh - by the government making all them dollar bills and stuff. Except we only make so many of them, so we gots to make sure they all flow around equally.”

[Salamander]

But you’re from Texas where it’s mandatory.....;D

[Salamander]

My Yukon has HD skulls and .45mm stickers.

What race am I offending?

Wimps?

LOL

[redgolum]

Electric non 4x4 cars limit your range to run.

[jazusamo]

Ha! That sounds just like something the demented Olbie would rant on about.

[cva66snipe]

Consumer behavior? I don’t think the eunuch has a brain anywhere. I have two pickup trucks and one van, and carry a boatload of tools parts and equipment needed for W O R K!

A year ago I went in search of about a 2000-2004 Hi-Top Conversion van for family use to put a hydraulic wheelchair lift on and haul a motorized wheelchair. I could not find one within a 50 mile radius. Very few are now made. I ended up after a month finding a 1998 that had too do.

When we have to replace this van we will likely have to buy a used Dodge Sprint delivery van to handle the load. The governments one model or one type of vehicle fits all is not working out well for persons who need larger vehicles.

[editor-surveyor]

"He didn’t save the auto industry, he merely postponed guaranteed their demise."

Free repair.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Most of us in my neck of the woods learned to drive in a pickup truck.” <<

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My wife learned to drive in a pickup, and I taught three of my kids how to drive in her pickup. (it was a compact with manual shift, and mine was way too big and heavy, and automatic)

[Chode]

i love the Claymore hitch cover...

[editor-surveyor]

>> “He belongs in prison.” <<

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In a nutshell.

[ThunderSleeps]

“You can’t just make money on SUVs and trucks,” he declared.

Umm, yeah, you can - if that's what people want to buy. It's called a free market. I know that goes against your big-government, centrally-planned, controlling-socialist grain, but that's life.

“There is a place for SUVs and trucks, but as gas prices keep on going up, you have got to understand the market.

Yeah, there's a place - in my driveway. Imagine, the audacity and idiocy of this {expletive} lecturing the only successful US car company on "the market." What a {expletive}

[occamrzr06]

Well played Sir, well played.

[The Mayor]

What a moron, some us us have NO choice, we have to have a truck.......