Do you really want the American Gestapo Running our health care and other businesses?
Fresh out of college and eager to build a career, a fellow I’ll call “Teddy” (not his real name) got a job at a Chevrolet dealership. Before long he was selling lots of cars and putting away some money. In 1969 he had an opportunity to purchase an old Chevy dealership that was little more than a gas station. It happened to have working fuel pumps out front.
It was a kind of a mom & pop operation. Teddy sold the cars, drove the wrecker, pumped gas and did whatever needed to be done to keep the business on solid footing. He hired local high school girls to prep the new and used cars.
One day Teddy came up with an idea. He asked the high school girls to pump the gas. The girls wore short shorts and smiled at all the customers, particularly their friends who drove in. Gas sales soared and traffic to his dealership increased. Teddy was selling cars, running the wrecker and supervising the service department. The teenagers who bought gas started coming back to buy new and used cars as they went off to college.
After a half-dozen years of running his little dealership, he was able to purchase a bigger and better dealership for Chevrolet and Pontiac vehicles. For 40 years, Teddy did just fine. His son grew up and joined the business and he was selling new cars to second- and third-generation customers. The service department was busy and used car sales were brisk.
Then one day about six months ago Teddy received a letter in the mail from General Motors telling him his Chevrolet franchise agreement was being terminated. There was no explanation, no phone call, no “We’re sorry.” Just a single letter telling him his 40-year career selling Chevys was over.
Teddy was devastated, as you might imagine. After all, selling Chevys was his life, his son’s life, his nephew’s life, his wife’s life. And Chevys were what his salesmen sold and technicians fixed. Teddy said it was like losing a part of your family. He had been going to dealership meetings and on junkets and vacations with other dealers for many years. The other dealers were his friends.
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This is how the government Czar’s treated the automotive industry.
Imagine what they are going to do to the medical industry.
We’re going to need God’s help to Keep America At Work because Nancy Pelosi and others sure aren’t cutting the mustard in my opinion.
Reader Comments
They are going to treat it exactly the same. Here is another example of what to expect.
Have you ever been treated like a valued customer? Have you ever been to a restaurant and been given great service? Now I know it doesn't happen every time, but it does happen here more often because there is a profit motive involved.
Now, have you ever been to the Department of Motor Vehicle Registration in your city? Have you EVER been treated like they gave a you know what if you even dropped dead as you stand there for hours? That is what health care will be like. It is like that now in England. I heard a guy on TV the other night tell about his friend waiting 5 hours in a hospital emergency room with a broken leg, and no one cared enough to try and move him to the front of the line. He could have died and no one gave a rip.
Get ready Boobus Americanus, this is the hope and change enough of you voted for to put the Marxist/Socialist in the White House.
As far as Teddy goes, he will be a stronger more self sufficient person because of his ordeal. This is one more reason that I would never buy a car from the "new GM". It is just Government Motors, and I don't care how many americans are employed by them. They don't deserve our business. If they had been allowed to fail, another company would have arisen. Stronger and more sensitive to the customer.
I hear you.
When I have money I frequent a place in kerrville called Mamacitas that is a mexican food place.
They remember my name and they treat me good so they get my business.
I also have stood in line at sprint in vegas and the license plate establishments.
As a matter of fact, I went to walmart the other day to get a part for my nephews ipod for my mother and I could tell that the guy could care less about my problems and I wanted to grab him by the collar and wake him up.
That is why I will no longer work for corporate America.
They have gotten too big and now you are just a number to them.
Bring back the local mom and pop and local government and tell the big boys that they have grown too big to be allowed to stay in business or government because they have turned from our servant into a parasite that will destroy all of us.