Michael Stephen Levinson for President of United
States!
The National Car-Lotto
I admit to wanting the car czar job; because I like the rhyme.
Here is my Czarist plan to rejuvenate our American automobile
industry without any further boot clicking government
intervention.
As the industry (or government) appointed car czar I will organize
a national car-lotto raffle, with tickets sold nationwide, wherever
lotto tickets are sold. Car-lotto raffle tickets will sell for one
dollar. Your winning ticket gets the GM, Ford, or Chrysler from the
dealership of your choice, with taxes, tag, dealer fees and extended
warranty included.
Income tax liability will be forgiven until such time as you sell
or trade the car. Our goal, with an advertising blizzard on radio,
and TV, is 30,000 yet to be built cars raffled every week, as soon as
we clear the cars currently in stock on our dealership lots!
This National car-Lotto idea replaces Cash-For-Clunkers. In fact
the National Car-Lotto is a better program because the National Car
Lotto will not cost the taxpayers $4500 per vehicle as the Cash-For
Clunkers program did.Â
The lotto-raffle winner goes to their favorite dealership. The
sales commission on the sticker price is divided amongst the sales
force so every buddy benefits. In this manner, the future of
America's car companies is in the hands of we, the people, not
Washington, DC bureaucrats.
Chrysler's Sebring convertible is the sharpest convertible in USA.
Were it announced that Chrysler was going out of business and the
last ten thousand Sebring Convertibles were being sold via raffle
ticket, every ticket would be gone in an hour!
Facing the demise of General Motors and Chrysler, millions of
people would have purchased a car-lotto raffle ticket every week to
win their favorite car. The deal: upon winning you visit the
dealership with your winning ticket in hand and order exactly the car
and color you want.
I hold millions of people who can't afford to purchase a new car
but can afford to operate a car would purchase car-lotto raffle
tickets regardless every week whether they are driving a gas guzzling
clunker or not. All of the millions of people who purchase scratch
offs and lotto tickets would certainly earmark a dollar or two each
week for a car-lotto raffle ticket as the odds of winning a brand new
state of the art car are so much better then winning a lotto!
GM would have one million Volts pre-sold before their first Volt
rolled off the line. We should include the all-electric Silicon
Valley Tesla, too. Instead of Obama's bureaucrats deciding which
companies are to survive in the collapsing world e con oh me, we, the
people would be the deciders on what cars we drive.
My car-lotto national raffle program will pre-sell thousands of
new American made cars every week, the money on hold, after all the
inventory on all the lots is rolled. Each and every car will be
loaded with the latest state of the art features, too. The beauty in
this: so many of the car-lotto winners will be people who drive but
are not in the market to purchase a new car, much as they'd love to
have one.
Those people who are planning on a new car, in spite of today's
e con oh me, aren't going to hold off until they win their
favorite model in the car-lotto. They will simply go around to the
dealerships and negotiate their best deal. In a troubled world
market, our auto industry will survive from the good faith of the
car-lotto raffle ticket purchasing American public.
So why don't we move on this and give our car industry a chance to
renegotiate fresh rolls in a permanently altered world e con oh
me? I want to be industry appointed, the car czar guy on the TV
ads exhorting everyone to purchase their car-lotto raffle ticket, and
make the talk show rounds, pushing our new car for a dollar
raffle.
The only hinderance to the above is it is my idea and I'm a
candidate for president, an issue held against me because I am an
independently minded person. Once you get past that minor detail you
have a winning program. One million jobs will be saved from this.