Wesley Mouch, GM and Chrysler say ... 'we have too many sales outlets .. we need FEWER to increase our chances'

Read the facts presented, if you can find them, for why fewer sales outlets are a better choice for companies with declining sales.

Dealers don't cost a manufacturer...ANYTHING

They buy vehicles.
They own them until they are sold.
They buy parts for inventory.
They service the vehicles
They pay for both sales and service training.

If you have too high an inventory of vehicles you BUILD FEWER, and you sell them off, and it would seem the more outlets you have willing to compete, the better off you are.

But not in Obama's Newamerica, where:

After GM's bondholders last weekend refused to answer the bell for another round with Uncle Sam, the White House put out a statement: "As a result, the President has deemed GM's plan viable and will be making available about $30 billion of additional federal assistance to support GM's restructuring plan."

Read that sentence again, slowly. It holds what look like the keywords of the American future: the president, deems, viable, making available, federal assistance, support, restructuring plan.

When a politician chooses who can stay in business or not, the result WILL BE POLITICAL, not commercial. IPSO FACTO.

This used to be a hell of a country.

We need the Schecter brothers. Come out come out wherever you are.