You’re doing fantastic work; keep it up!

I can’t help but wonder if we’ll discover a similar trend with GM dealerships?

Obama is not practicing socialism or national socialism. To use hyperbole often turns people off and undermines the importance of the argument. The government is determined to spread the wealth around and will use the bully pulpit to pick winners and losers without ending private property. It is economic fascism.

To understand this is to understand the whole motivation behind the “green” economy. What we are seeing here, we will see a thousand fold in the future. The Dems are gong to steer wealth away from sectors dominated by Republicans, conservatives, Southerners, etc. … through a variety of means. And the old energy sectors have a huge target on their backs.

The want to bleed the oil and coal wealth dry and re-allocate it to green corridors. This has more to do with empowering Blue areas, the young, minorities and liberals as it has to doe with the environment. They will use the government to do this without nationalizing private property.

(as do I) is true and there is empirical evidence that this sort of ‘pay for play’ actually happened, it’s the stuff of which viral internet stories are made and will have *huge* legs. I have a friend in UT whose extremely profitable Chrysler dealership which has been around about 35 years was closed down. And, yep, he’s a GOPer all the way.

First off, thank you for the important work. Kudos to the blogosphere that a guy can do a bit of research and share the information so widely so quickly.

Secondly, here’s the rub for me…perhaps a small nit-pick. Regarding this statement:

Thousands of people, including managers, sales reps, technicians, parts specialists, cashiers and those who wash the cars and sweep the floors are losing their jobs at a time when President Obama tells us that he’s creating them.

I’d argue this was going to happen anyhow. The real issue, as your article makes clear, is that an external entity…our U.S. government…appears to be making the decision for the CEO. Were I an investor, this would infuriate me. I would want the dealers that make money to stay open, and lop off, say, the bottom x% who are losing money. Apparently, and not unsurprisingly, politics are trumping rational business decisions.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rdU8Q_Kp6MlB1F2ia72RPtQ&single=true&gid=0&

- JP

…for BOTH General Motors and Chrysler dealerships.

Remember that, at bottom, the people in the WH are thugs, and they do things the Chicago Way-pay to play. So, if your theory is correct, an overwhelming majority of the dealerships that stay open for both GM and Chrysler will be dealers who donated to the DNC and the Obama Campaign.

The evidence has to be overwhelming and convincing to the lay person. The media won’t investigate this because of the implications of the data. Some Republican politician, like Palin or Romney, has to be able to hang their hat on this, so you can’t be screwin’ around here.

You don’t have to show that Dems were rewarded in order to show that Republicans were punished. All you have to show is that Republicans were punished. If, for example, the majority of closing dealers who donated to political campaigns donated to the GOP (which appears to be the case), then all you have to show is that the majority of dealers who will remain open are *NOT* GOP donors. They don’t have to be Dem donors.

- JP

The vast majority of ALL auto dealer political contributions go to Republicans.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/05/news-flash-car-dealers-are-republicans.html

“the question is not What is the statistical likelihood that a car dealer contributes to Republicans? It’s Did the White House save Democratic contributors from being closed?”

At least, it says “Moe Lane” in the comment…I merely suggest that we should work through the first question before approaching the second.