GM=Government Motors…
h/t to Drudge for the caption.
This is starting to seem surreal. How wonderful….our Chrysler and GM warranties will now be backed by “the full faith and credit” of the insane clown posse now running the U.S. government. Just like our soon-to-be-inflated dollars and our soon-to-be deflated T-bills. And our defaulted mortgages. I wish I could wake up from this bad dream.
It is my hope that the steps I am announcing today will go a long way towards answering many of the questions people may have about the future of GM and Chrysler. But just in case there are still nagging doubts, let me say it as plainly as I can — if you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired, just like always. Your warrantee will be safe.
In fact, it will be safer than it’s ever been. Because starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warrantee.
Yes, my fellow Americans…your Sebrings and your Escalades are now also “too big to fail.” Along with everything else.
Related:Â The Directorate of Auto Warranties?
This is great news — for fans of the DMV. Vehicle owners can expect the same kind of efficiency and expertise they receive there in handling warranty issues with their vehicles. Instead of working with dealers on the warranties, the government will now have to get involved, which will mean extensive paperwork for every warranty claim as the Directorate of Auto Warranties will have to account for every single penny, or at least those pennies that don’t get earmarked for Auto Warranty Bike Paths by Rep. Jim Oberstar.
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Government does not belong in the business of offering auto warranties. Two years ago, that would have been so obvious as to elicit derisive laughter for even mentioning it. But when we get a bunch of used-car salesmen in the White House and Congress, this is the result.
And the scoop on this from the ultimate insider, Barack’s Teleprompter:
The communications staff loves the idea of owning a car company, and we don’t even have to come up with a fancy name, like “Saturn” or “Plymouth.” U.S. Auto is perfect, because of the U.S.A. acronym. And the warranty plan; how great is that? If only the White House legal counsel would let us make the same kind of offer for all of Big Guy’s campaign promises.
I’m not sure about comms guys other ideas related to marketing U.S. Auto. For example, instead of brakes, they want to rename them “baracks.” I don’t care what they say, calling them that won’t make anyone feel safer. And when those “baracks” fail guess who gets the blame?
ld:
It is surreal driver. Almost laughed when it was suggested today this was a one-up game between Obama and Dmitry Medvedyev…as in ‘look at me D-Med, I got the auto industry…what you got?’
Sigh…should we chalk it up to more Obama inexperience? He WAS just barely out of high school when the Fiat-based Yugo first hit the markets in the late ’70s. And this isn’t even original…he’s just ripping off the game plan of another….the recent successful (?) partnering of Fiat with the Serbian government.
D-Med is probably rolling his eyes.
30 March 2009, 4:50 pmdriver:
Ha. I thought of the Yugo as I read the news, too. Also of the wonderfully successful government intervention in the French car industry.
30 March 2009, 5:07 pmbtm:
In the late 1960th Fiat built a car factory in the USSR to produce … tens of millions of Fiat 124 twins called Zhiguli (Lada), the most popular Russian car model that was still built in 2008.
Is our government going to nationalize UAW as well?
30 March 2009, 8:23 pmdriver:
No btm, our government is going to merge with UAW.
30 March 2009, 8:31 pmcollegemom16:
Because liberals love American made cars as CC makes so clear… They don’t support the products that their own policies produce.
I know a few auto mechanics and I can’t think of a single one who would be willing to work for the government. Perhaps they can enlist some of their conscripts from the new mandatory volunteer camps.
31 March 2009, 4:14 pm