Free Enterprise at Work

Government just needs to give us a chance.  I know, I know at times it doesn't seem as though we can do anything for ourselves and that Big Brother should hold our hands all of the time.  But it seems as though AutoNation will have nothing of it.  A few weeks ago the company announced plans to assure car buyers that their payments will be paid in the event that the customer loses his/her job.

They came up with that all on their own?  Why?  To drive traffic to their capitalist machine?  To garner market share?  To turn a profit?  Oh no, the horror!  What if it works.  They'll prove that they didn't need assistance and that in dire times it may take some creativity and brass balls to be successful.

Now this is not to say that these programs aren't an indirect result of some government warm-and-fuzzy that allowed Ford, GM and AutoNation to proceed but it does raise the question as to what would have happened if bailout nation wasn't bailout nation.  Would have capitalism and the free markets prevailed?

We'll never know.

Read about Ford, GM and AutoNation in the South Florida Business Journal