Cutting Dealerships

I have been trying to wrap my mind around why cutting dealerships helps the failing car makers? Doesn't the dealer have the investment in the cars, he thinks he can sell? I mean I understand that if you cut loose a brand name and close a factory that it would help you possibly make a better product. But why would you want to cut loose your customer? If a dealership was not making money wouldn't it fail on it's own? Or change brand names it sells?

So when we were giving bailout money to car companies because they were to "big to fail" because of the thousands of jobs that would be lost, that was OK. When those same car companies force thousands of people out of work that do NOT work for the car company, that is also OK too?

If I was selling a product to thousands of stores and my company was failing I don't think I would try to sell less of my own product. The dealerships are now forced to buy their cars from other car companies if they want to stay in business. The the local dealerships will become Toyota and Honda dealers.

The American people are on the hook now for the money we "lent" to the car companies. Those same car companies are going (or are in) bankruptcy. We were lied to about how much this money will help them and how the car companies didn't need bankruptcy with our money. Why do we keep trusting these companies?

This whole thing looks like a way to cater to big labor and cut out those pesky non-union jobs like car dealers. I guess "buy American" will no longer be a mantra in the country as the American companies are forcing Americans to buy Japanese.

Maybe we should fire the CEO of those companies, we will have our chance in November of 2012.