Chrysler and Govt Ruining Families and Towns

FROM - Email from American Policy Round Table

Your Neighbor Desperately Needs Your Help!

Friends,
This is an urgent request for you to make four phone calls that may rescue your neighbor and save thousands of jobs – today. We need your help this very hour. Here is the story.

Back in February the Obama Administration took over the US auto industry by trading tax dollars for government control. Chrysler and GM took the deal. The President forced the CEO of GM to resign. Now the Obama Auto Task Force is trying to close 789 independently owned Chrysler dealerships. This will result in the totally unnecessary loss of thousands of jobs across the country.

Here are the facts:
Chrysler dealers are independent companies. They pay for everything they get from the manufacturer. They are the primary way Chrysler sells products. They are an asset not a liability to the company.

In bankruptcy court Chrysler is trying to break their contracts with 789 dealers across the county – for no apparent logical reason. We have searched for legitimate justification for this action and can find none.

Chrysler has given these 789 locally owned companies no recourse, no appeals, no financial considerations and will push many into personal and corporate bankruptcy – again – for no good reason.

Chrysler action breaks state franchise laws in at least one state – Ohio – where 47 dealers are being immediately terminated.

Why is the Obama Administration via Treasury and the Auto Task Force throwing thousands of Americans out of work? What have these mechanics, sales people and office administrators done wrong? They are no burden to Chrysler; in fact they are profit centers for the manufacturer. They are being thrown out of work because the President’s Auto Task Force is an assembly of non-elected bureaucrats who have no clue on how to run the auto business.

They are permitting Chrysler to break contracts and laws and destroy the livelihoods of innocent people. In the process Chrysler is destroying its ability to service customers and honor warranties devaluing each Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep vehicle on the road today. This horrid injustice will so damage Chrysler that the “new” company emerging from bankruptcy will be doomed to struggle – costing thousand more manufacturing jobs across the nation.

This is exactly what happens when government attempts to take over and run private industry. Things get delegated and truly mucked up. Good people get steamrolled because government bureaucracies are picking winners and losers.

You can help right this injustice with four phone calls. Here is how:
Today, right this minute, please pick up your cell phone or hard line and call the White House public comment line at (202)456-1111. Tell them you want the President to stop the closing of 789 Chrysler dealerships.

Call the Congressional Switchboard at (202)224-3121 and have them connect you to your House Representative. Tell them you want Congress to immediately stop the closing of 789 Chrysler dealerships.
Repeat step #2 over again and ask for your US Senator’s office. You have two Senators. Leave the same message with each one of them.
Send this email alert to everyone you know.

What about GM dealerships? We’ll cross that bridge in a few more weeks. For right now the President and Congress must understand that we the people will not stand by and let non-elected bureaucrats and judges shut down honest, law-abiding American businesses who have done nothing wrong.

What about reforming the auto industry? Obviously that is already happening. The free market principle of honoring contract law cannot be thrown away in the name of “reform.” If we surrender to such injustice today – what will the government do in the name of “reform” tomorrow?

If Chrysler wants to cut dealers there is a legal and fair way to do so. Using federal bankruptcy court as a cover to break the law is just plain wrong.

When the government picks winners and losers – we all lose.

David Zanotti
President/CEO
The American Policy Roundtable
P.S. Please make these urgent phone calls today. You will be helping thousands of honest people keep their jobs. Your neighbors desperately need your help!

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