Incredibly well?

Texas and how it ranks to other states:

Percent below poverty level: 16.6% (#8)

Bankruptcy filings: #2

Unemployment rate: 5% (#12)

Of course, I cherry-picked the data. But it shows that there are no magic states that avoided the destructive effects of 30 years of conservatism brought to us by a federal government dominated by republicans.

Texas totally deregulated utility rates and now they pay up to 40 times MORE than any place else.

From Texas Sen. Hutchison:

“Our state leads the country in some undesirable categories: high school dropout rates, homeowner insurance rates, utility rates, access to healthcare and property taxes. Yet these issues weren’t addressed.

Doesn’t sound like Utopia to me. Sounds like a conservative-dominated nightmare.

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Thanks for the cool site, Citizen.

Democrat lawmakers have sent a letter protesting dealerships being shut down in their states.

It’s significant that they didn’t send their letter to the car company.

They sent it to Obama.

Certainly the Democrat’s in Congress know who’s shutting down dealerships.

Argue with the stats and the Senator.

Texas is no better off than anywhere else.

In fact, Kenny, we don’t have “zero” information. Lots of profitable dealerships are being closed, and that raises important questions all on its own. There are also fewer minority-owned dealerships being closed, proportionally, which also raises questions.

Minority Chryslers aren’t being shut down in an unfair percentage as they are a minority of Chrysler dealerships anyways. 5% of the workforce=5% of the layoffs is proportionately fair.

Moreover:

About half the dealerships being closed sell fewer than 100 vehicles per year, Landry said in a conference call. About 44% also sell vehicles other than Chrysler products, he said.

There is not enough info to make an informed claim here.

You missed the point, Kenny: there’s plenty of reason to investigate this, especially when the govt takeover of a company the size of Chrysler is unprecedented in the history of a free country.
Why do you have a problem with that?

Looking into something is different than claiming “Obama is targetting white republican dealerships” like you are doing.

You don’t have the info to make that claim, and when called on it, you change subject…”Why are you against transparency.” It’s pathetic debate, and it’s just a shot at me, when I point out you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.

Kenny if you’d bothered to read the post you’d see that the problem I have is that we don’t have any information. Except for data which indicates that mostly republican owned dealerships were closed.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with asking for clarification and information.

No, there’s nothing wrong with that. But you’re also casting aspersions that it IS political.

Half of the dealerships being closed sold less than 100 vehicles a year. That is a pretty convincing reason.

We need to be opposition when we disagree…not just to be opposition.

nobody has answered my question and nobody has asked it…. WHAT % OF THESE PLACES ARE RUN BY LIBERALS TO BEGIN WITH?

additionally, they are shutting down little town dealerships I bet… probably most of the little town business folks are republicans.

SUMMARY; 1 -most dealerships US wide are owned by rich repubs and 2 – the ones being shut down are owned by small towns that are mostly owned by repubs.

Meaning Dino, of course.

change we can believe in and the change we need. What a joke.

“Obama is targetting white republican dealerships” like you are doing.

You lie; I never made that statement. Try to stick with the truth; be honest.

It is a fact that there have been profitable dealerships closed, which is fiscal insanity, if you are trying to bail out a failing business. The fact that there have been a majority of Republican-owned businesses closed, and some unprofitable Dem/minority dealerships which have benefited from the closure of Republican-owned, profitable dealerships indicates that there might be something corrupt going on here.
Why are you afraid of investigating this matter, Kenny? Are you unaware of the fact that the govt does everything for political purposes? Especially the present govt.

Half of the dealerships being closed sold less than 100 vehicles a year. That is a pretty convincing reason.

Not if they were profitable. You apparently don’t know much about running a business.
In business, profitability is the measure; in politics, it’s the identity of the dealers. Big difference.

This story is still around?

Jeez.

Look, group, we can all pretend that this is scary stuff, but we have ZERO information. No one knows why these were shut down, their profitability, nothing.

We sound retarded to keep banging this drum until some facts come out.

We sound retarded to keep banging this drum until some facts come out.

Kenny, who have you been talking to? You seem, er, different. More rational.

You should know that conservatives don’t operate from a factual position. Without rumor, innuendo or scandal-mongering all of their “oppostition” disappears.

Democrat lawmakers have sent a letter protesting dealerships being shut down in their states.

Not heard anything about that. Got a link?

So you people don’t want the car companies bailed out, you want all the dealerships left open, you want Obama to ignore them, you want the money paid back, you don’t want the money paid back, etc. Any ideas how all that’s going to work?

I think that you people are just being the typical assholes that you are and playing any side of any issue that gets you political traction. You don’t care what happens to the auto companies, the dealers, the workers, anything. You just want to see trouble and more bad things. You lost the election and want nothing good to occur or want to see any positive developments.

You are simply awful people. The absolute worst.

Normal people simply see the trouble at the auto companies as more evidence of the failed republican policies leading us to this meltdown.

When I think of how much your kids and grandkids will suffer in the coming years I smile.

Texas is no better off than anywhere else.

Texas is way better off than Oregon, idiot. Kulongoski and the liberal tree hugger eco-terrorists have shut down logging, lumber mills and what little manufacturing there was. High taxes are driving out the semi-conductor and software companies. Now the liberal idiots are going after agriculture and ranching. They just want utopia and that means no business, or jobs. Wherever liberals dominate the electorate there is no economy.

I would consider moving to texas, i have visited many times, nice place… liberals suck and taxes are low ..best functioning state in the nation

Not heard anything about that. Got a link?

Sure.

The key point is that they aren’t going to the auto manufacturers. They are sending the letter to the guy mismanaging them who lives on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Mr. Food, why not move to Texas then?

Ted Poe must be a listener of Rush Limbaugh.

It has to be obvious that texas, a republican dominated state, is doing incredibly well. Just opened a new stadium. on the other hand. the dem run states are in the shit tank…get a clue.

The most conservative European is slightly to the right of ME. They have people like our cons there but they call them fascists or neo-nazis and they’re shunned.

As well they should be here.
DINO on June 7, 2009 at 04:45 pm

You’ve missed the point.

Or better yet, to some fucked- up socialistic country in Europe.
J.L. on June 7, 2009 at 03:42 pm

From what I’m hearing on the evening news, it seems that the elections in Europe are going heavily in favor of conservatism.