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		By: dad29		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://norunnyeggs.com/2010/07/governmentuaw-motors-and-closed-dealerships-an-alternate-take/comment-page-1/#comment-38763&quot;&gt;steveegg&lt;/a&gt;.

They considered graft and corruption. 

They&#039;re Democrats.  That&#039;s what they DO.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://norunnyeggs.com/2010/07/governmentuaw-motors-and-closed-dealerships-an-alternate-take/comment-page-1/#comment-38763">steveegg</a>.</p>
<p>They considered graft and corruption. </p>
<p>They&#8217;re Democrats.  That&#8217;s what they DO.</p>
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		By: steveegg		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s the way I read the arguments from the likes of Hot Air and Charlie Sykes this morning - they focused on the &quot;Auto Team didn&#039;t consider the job losses&quot; part of the SIG report.

If they didn&#039;t consider either job losses (something that should be outside the consideration envelope of a business in bankruptcy) or cost savings (the primary, and some would say only, thing a business in bankruptcy should consider), then what did they consider?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s the way I read the arguments from the likes of Hot Air and Charlie Sykes this morning &#8211; they focused on the &#8220;Auto Team didn&#8217;t consider the job losses&#8221; part of the SIG report.</p>
<p>If they didn&#8217;t consider either job losses (something that should be outside the consideration envelope of a business in bankruptcy) or cost savings (the primary, and some would say only, thing a business in bankruptcy should consider), then what did they consider?</p>
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		By: dad29		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;Private (or putatively private) enterprise, especially one in such bad financial shape that it is in bankruptcy, does not have a responsibility to be an employment-for-all agency.&lt;/i&gt;

Who the Hell argued THAT case?

The argument from Conservatism NEVER implied that Gummint Motors should have kept the dealerships b/c jobs were on the line.  The argument was that there was NO GOOD REASON to CLOSE them, period.

If a dealership goes banko, that&#039;s the dealer&#039;s problem.  Too bad, so sad.  Not very pretty, some lives ruined, but hey...that&#039;s the game.

The &quot;Toyota Does It This Way&quot; argument is irrelevant.  And it was clear that the US dealership structure was heading that direction, anyway; by 2020, the mergers and consolidations due to economics would, perhaps, have resulted in exactly the same closures as happened last year.

But that would not have been arbitrary, capricious, or NEARLY as disruptive as the ObamaGoon method.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Private (or putatively private) enterprise, especially one in such bad financial shape that it is in bankruptcy, does not have a responsibility to be an employment-for-all agency.</i></p>
<p>Who the Hell argued THAT case?</p>
<p>The argument from Conservatism NEVER implied that Gummint Motors should have kept the dealerships b/c jobs were on the line.  The argument was that there was NO GOOD REASON to CLOSE them, period.</p>
<p>If a dealership goes banko, that&#8217;s the dealer&#8217;s problem.  Too bad, so sad.  Not very pretty, some lives ruined, but hey&#8230;that&#8217;s the game.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Toyota Does It This Way&#8221; argument is irrelevant.  And it was clear that the US dealership structure was heading that direction, anyway; by 2020, the mergers and consolidations due to economics would, perhaps, have resulted in exactly the same closures as happened last year.</p>
<p>But that would not have been arbitrary, capricious, or NEARLY as disruptive as the ObamaGoon method.</p>
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