Obama to Automakers: ‘You can’t just make money on SUVs and trucks’

If I want to drive a big ass Ford truck, I'll buy a big ass Ford truck. What part of that don't you understand, Obambi?

Actually, you arrogant asshole, they can “just make money on SUVs and trucks,” or on just anything else they want. Do you know why, you stupid Socialist prick? Because they are private companies (despite GM being mostly owned by the Federal Government), and because in a free market, businesses get to decide what products to make and sell.

This is a completely foreign concept to you, you fucking worthless empty suit, but companies are in business to make money. And to make money for their investors. Not to do what our dictator wants them to do. Not to make products that nobody wants. But to make money. Had you ever run a business or worked in the private sector, you might know this.

Via The Hill:

The country’s automakers should ditch their focus on SUVs and trucks in favor of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, President Obama said Monday.

“You can’t just make money on SUVs and trucks,” Obama said during a town hall forum in Cannon Falls, Minn. “There is a place for SUVs and trucks, but as gas prices keep on going up, you have got to understand the market. People are going to try to save money.”

Obama has positioned the revival and reshaping of the auto industry as a major part of his administration’s push to improve the economy and create jobs.

Oh, Obama has definitely already “reshaped” the auto industry since taking office. Mostly by killing it while trying to save buy it.

Obama’s taking a lot of (deserved) ridicule over this on Memeorandum. Interestingly enough, none of the linked posts are from Liberals even bothering to defend something so stupid. It’s so stupid, you have to wonder if his teleprompter was broken again and he was simply off script again.

OTHERS:

Ed Morrissey gives it their Obamateurism of the Day award:

You know, we used to have a country where companies manufactured products, consumers made their choices, and government just collected the taxes on the transactions.  If companies got it wrong, they went out of business and others bought the assets and made better decisions.  Now we have a government that wants to tell manufacturers what to make, tell consumers what to buy, and collect a whole lot more taxes so that they can bail out companies and run other industries into the ground.  And that’s bad enough, but Obama’s marketing plans have all of the success of his economic plans, and baby, that ain’t good at all.

The Sundries Shack:

Anytime you get a situation where President Obama lectures the American people on how the economy works, you know it’ll end in laughter and tears. Today was no different as Our Planmaker-In-Chief stood before a crowd in Minnesota and told them that automakers have no idea in the world what kind of vehicle people really want to drive.

No Quarter:

Jesus Christ!! Here’s a guy leading a three mega-bus caravan through the midwest, consuming thousands of gallons of diesel, and he is lecturing Americans on SUVs? Can’t make money selling SUVS? No wonder this clown has failed to create real jobs for Americans.

Bryan Preston:

Alternate title: Man with no economics or managerial or marketing background, on the verge of launching a “jobs” bus tour to distract the nation from his own wretched record on jobs, scolds US industry for building products Americans will actually buy.

And this commenter to Bryan’s post understands the bigger picture in Obama’s grand scheme:

“…as gas prices keep on going up, you have got to understand the market.”

Gas prices are going up because Barry “the Weasel” is interfering with the market.

The Chosen One creates problems so he can propose his government control-based solutions.

Which is exactly what Obama and Eric Holder did in Operation Fast and Furious. Obama created the problem of “American guns are falling into the hands of Mexican drug cartels” by ordering the ATF to give guns to the Mexican drug cartels in order to propose stricter gun control regulations (which he did last month).