Closing car dealers is not the solution

Closing auto dealerships will not "save or create" jobs, nor will it solve the economic woes of the auto industry.

Quite the contrary, jobs will be lost, competition will be eliminated, and it will be more difficult for customers to find dealers where they can buy cars and have them serviced by qualified mechanics.

It is obvious that the current administration, many who seem to be just learning how to pay their income taxes properly, has no clue how to handle the economic situation, and certainly has no business running private businesses!

The major problem with the auto industry for several decades has been the excessive costs of labor and ridiculous unreal benefits. Receiving 80 to 90% pay while not working is excessive and not sustainable. Think about it. The average auto assembly line worker makes $70,000, while the average regional airline pilot makes $20,000.

We pay our garbage collectors far more than the pilots that fly the planes we are on. There is something seriously wrong with our value system and I don't see the current administration doing anything but encouraging the erosion of our value system.

Congress has been responsible for many of the policies and lack of oversight that created our current problems. They are not the solution, they are the problem.

Daryl Pratt

Arlington Heights