Ok, this Judge is PAID OFF OR CORRUPT!  I don't care if he has years of experience and was the judge on the MCI/Worldcom bankruptcy case.  Here are the key quotes from the story at the story linked to the pic below.

 

"Absent a car manufacturing business, the dealerships would not seem to serve any purpose for the debtor," Gonzalez said, but added there may be a case for the dealers to pursue damages.

 

At Thursday's hearings, dealers from New York and Florida testified about the relative strength of their businesses in an attempt to show Chrysler was not closing its weakest locations. 

As your acquaintences talk of the Chrysler and GM financial extortions, please remind them that Ford is off the radar because they are profitable. Many will wrongly blame GM for all fault here. GM had a bigger budget and per capita profit prior to this than Ford.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Ford-profit-target-on-track-rb-15244624.html

Correct people who make sweeping statements like "the future of the US auto industry". They have not done their homework. GM and Chrysler are being prevented from importing their smaller cars and they are being forced to retool their factories toward smaller cars. Ford's biggest market has been trucks. Farmers love the F-150 and F-250 models. Furthermore Ford has many law enforcement contracts (most I have seen have been FORD).

Bottom line, Obama will push GM out of the big car market and strive to do the same for everyone via CAFE standards. Until the CAFE standards kick in by 2016, you can suggest to your discouraged church trip drivers and big families that they will likely have to seek a Ford van or Escalade to replace that Chevy Suburban or GM van in the coming years.

In the end, Chrysler will be forced to merge with GM and both will be blamed by the thug in Chief who caused it. Your friends will be happy to have met their needs without coming in contact with this fiasco and the time and cost it will take to become profitable again after he is gone.

Bottom line here folks is that real pain is coming and you will have opportunities with news and market limitations to preach of free markets and a free country.  This is not too political.  We have come face to face with idea of health inspectors showing up at a church banquet or fundraiser near you. Also nonprofit status for churches has been questioned in the past in our hard times. After all, we can't afford any cuts in government payoffs--OOPS--services can we? Where is the publication or news conference on where the trillions have gone, especially TARP?

I plead with you help your great and spacious building acquaintences understand that their poster boy lacks the cool factor they feed on. I believe Ford is our best posterchild for this. We will be ready for a comeback starting next spring after tax sticker shock, but this FASCIST thug and his quarter flipping flankmen will never sit before a hearing of any kind until we chip away at his cult following. I am so sick of people ignoring the numbers and the freedom to ride his wave without thinking about where it is going.

This is the "focus of Evil in the modern world" that Reagan spoke of.

-JimJ