A letter from my Uncle...

The following is a letter I received from my Uncle David Vigue. His views will be obvious in a minute. I tried to post this as a comment but comments can be no more than 4000 characters, so here it is.

Dear Andy,

Well what I think is this. Our President says one thing and turns around and does something else. Example here is, he said he doesn’t want to run a car company, yet, he signed legislation to dictate what kind of cars they can build and sell. He removed the CEO, and gave a large stake to the UAW, who gave big support to Obama - Biden. The UAW is part of the problem with GM and Chrysler. Now, they have a “Pay Check Czar”. Give me a break. If he isn’t running GM, who is?

As for cutting dealers, it has been pointed out that the owner of BET also owns dealerships, and he is a large Democrat contributor, and none of his stores are being shut down. Now this BK Chapter, it’s nothing like any of the other ones that a major business files. Why, because the new CEO (Obama) also controls all the strings. When the Mfg. sells to it’s dealers, they get paid in full for the car or truck. They even get the freight money back, just look at the window sticker. They sell parts to dealers as well. If they want to cut back on dealer participation, all they would have to do is lower the amount of holdback, and cut back on advertising assistance. The dealers are on the hook for the cars on their lots. If they owe money on them, and many if not most do, it is a write off on the statement. Many dealerships float the inventory with banks and other 3^rd party lenders. It is called a “floor plan”. So, cutting dealerships is pure politics, and nothing but.

I said before the election that this guy was bad news, and I feel it fell on deaf ears. The man said in his book “to clear my head, I would go and hear a Marxist speaker”. Now look at the whole picture here, Rev Wright, Father Flagger, William Ayres, and others formed how he feels about the USA. From his trip to the Middle East, Mexico, Canada, England and France, he has done nothing but bad mouth our country. He has continued this time and time again. And I think it is because his vision of a better America would look more like Cuba, or the old Soviet Union. Whenever I brought this up, people would dismiss it as if maybe I was the nut. Another problem with the people on the left, is they don’t see this happening. They think they have elected a Democrat. He is not a Democrat in the mold of the Democrats I remember, and maybe even supported at one time or another. They believe that this is something we have to do, close down dealerships, tighten the belt, and let Washington oversee the “progress”. Strong dealerships survive recessions, and by the way, they are not drains on the manufacture. I should know, I managed in 2 states and worked in 4 states in the retail end. From 1979 to 2005. We lost thousands of dealerships in the early 80’s and late 70’s. The prime rate, had gone above 20% . Now what makes this worse for GM and Chrysler, in the late 70’s Toyota, Datsun (Now Nissan) and Honda were not that strong. Kia, and Hyundai were not even in the picture. Closing dealerships is more control by the Obama admin., and I wonder how many union dealerships are being shut down. Hummn. (Just a side note, when Chrysler introduced the K-Car, Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant, the Chairman of Chrysler went on TV adds saying he thought 24% APR was to high for Americans, so he was going to lower the APR for new car purchases to 14.9 APR, and that started the APR buy downs.)

Libs call what I say my opinion. And the truth is, it is not an opinion. It is fact.

Here are the facts…

1. Poor people do not create jobs. (other than civil servant welfare etc.)

2. Government has never proven that they can run a business. (Amtrak, ConRail, USPS)

3. Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried, why do we think it would work here?

4. Tax cuts have stimulated our economy over and over again, and the rich people just might run out of money if that’s all who pay the freight. If the Bush tax cuts expire, families making just 60K per year will pay about $1800.00 more in tax. Oh I forgot, they were tax cuts for the wealthy.

5. We are all created equal, given equal opportunity, but we are not guaranteed equal outcome. The problem with equal outcome is that we will all be poor.

6. “Health Care” is not a right. Yes that’s a fact. And more facts about that, we already have SCHIP, Medicare, Medicaid, and we even have hospitals like St Jude and Shiners’ who turn no one away who can’t pay. It is also a fact that before they increased SCHIP, 40 percent of the families who qualified for the old version never signed up. It is also a fact that the 15 percent of Americans who don’t have health insurance or those people who fall between the government programs and private insurance can be broken down into further groups, such as young people who make enough, but don’t want to lay out the money for coverage, people between jobs, people who can pay as they go, people to lazy to sign up for the SCHIP, etc. So, do we really need to change our health care system to cover 15 percent. Now for the opinion, my opinion is NO. Any reasonable person would have to agree with me. But, who ever said that today’s Left Wing is reasonable.

7. This is a great fact. The Amish have never set off a bomb. So we don’t have Amish Terrorist. We do however have Islamic Terrorist, so why not call it like it is. And they are at war with us, no matter what our Pres. Says. Just read the 9/11 report.

8. Life begins at conception. It’s not a choice, it’s a baby. And if someone doesn’t think so, than why would they agree that digging up sea turtle eggs is a crime. Could it be that if all the makings of the sea turtle are there, that makes it a sea turtle. Than why is a human fetus dismissed as a choice?

9. Americans owning hand guns is Constitutional. No matter what the new Supreme Court nominee thinks.

10. Marriage is defined as between a man and a woman, look it up. Also, it has been a religious practice for millenniums. So why do we have to change it? What is the government doing in the religion business anyway? If we change the law for same sex couples, do we have to change it for incest. As I see it the only people not allowed to be married are married people. Gay people can get married, just not same sex.

So Andrew, maybe you can explain to me why it is that people who call themselves “people of faith” would ever consider voting or supporting Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Frank, and all the other “Pro Choice” people. As I understand it, the main line Christian faiths, United Methodist, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, LDS etc. all teach that life is a gift from God. They also teach that people should be married before having sexual intercourse. They also teach that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that homosexual practice is a sin. They also teach what Jesus said, “to love your neighbor as you love yourself.” And, if this is true, why is the left so intolerant of other peoples views. Like Joe the Plumber, Miss California, and Gov. Palin.

I told you before, liberalism is a “Mental Disorder”. No other way to describe it. But it can be treated, with out universal health care, going to the hospital, or taking drugs. All we have to do is turn the light on inside their head. Have you noticed some of the best conservatives used to be liberals? So the hope is, that by 2010 America wakes up, and smells the Marxist, and votes for American Conservative principles. Even my Democrat friends. Oh boy have I found some who are ready to change.

So remember this, if you vote 3^rd party, you may as well vote for Obama. This go around, make sure you don’t vote for Obama by proxy. It is to important, as you can see. I have more if you care.

Uncle Dave

P.S. feel free to post this on your blog.