Another Plant is gone

Good Morning everyone. The Picture up-loader was not working this morning so I guess we are without a photograph.

Well, General Motors closed another plant today (see http://www.thebigmoney.com/features/todays-business-press/2009/09/30/detroit-sings-pick-blues). 3.4 Million square feet of a facility where Pontiacs could be built. Each of the readers here are, as Taxpayers, the owners of that plant and the Pontiac Brand. Is this is the use you want them used for? To sit idle when thousands of jobs could be created almost overnight?
Please make sure you have signed our petition.

WE CAN DO THIS TOGETHER!

Have a Great Wednesday.

A little late today

Here is why:

September 29, 2009

Mr. Thomas A. Schatz
President, Citizens Against Government Waste

1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Suite 1075

Washington, DC 20004

Dear Mr. Schatz:

On behalf of the members of our organization, those that have signed our petition and the Taxpayers of the United States of America, I request that CAGW join with us to eliminate what is a waste of Taxpayer dollars by allowing the Pontiac Brand to be retired and serviceable factories to be closed or mothballed.

General Motors has received $80 Billion in Taxpayer’s funds which has resulted in the Taxpayers owning 61% of General Motors. Whether these payments were a waste can be debated for a long time and is not the point of this letter. What is to the point is that General Motors and the Treasury Department have elected to close Pontiac as part of the GM offerings. We at Savingpontiac.org believe GM should have jettisoned the Pontiac brand however we do not believe it should be closed down and thrown away.

The Taxpayers own the Plant facilities and the Brand (at least 61%). Saving Pontiac.org believes that with a Treasury department loan of up to $4 Billion to a New Pontiac, the Company, if run by profit, quality and customer oriented managers, could provide between 20,000 and 40,000 direct and indirect jobs Now and return to the economy and the Taxpayers as much as $50 Billion over 5 years.

The true waste is to throw away the assets that the Taxpayers own and ignore the possible upside to the economy. While $4 billion seems like a great deal of money, in perspective it truly is very little. $4 Billion is 4% of the total the Government has committed and spent on the Automobile industry. It is 5% of the amount already put into GM. It is less than 1.5% of the unspent TARP funds. Finally the $4 Billion is 2 hundredths of 1% of the $19 Trillion that has been spent or committed to the Bailout (Newsweek 9/26/09).

It is for these reasons that we ask that your organization join with us to attempt to take these “shovel Ready” jobs and put Americans to work, today. What we ask is “why is it OK for our Government to dispose of these assets without Taxpayer acquiescence?” If there was a referendum today, how would Americans vote to use the asset that they own?

Thank you for your interest;

Ben Holcomb, Executive Director

Happy Monday.

We had a great day yesterday. It was the 4th highest day for hits to our site and in the 24 hours since my challenge to increase petition signatures we went up 10% in signatures. Great work!

Yesterday, as promised I posted the bio's on each person helping with Savingpontiac.org. Hopefully this will quell some concerns that many of the forum bloggers and others have had.

As with every day....Thanks to everyone for supporting Savingpontiac.org.

Good Morning on Sunday.

A very exciting week is ahead for Savingpontiac.org.

Many have asked who is behind our site and who will be on board as we progress. Today, I will post Chief Pontiac's background and provide some information about the potential participants with our Organization.

Unfortunately we are are unable to provide names of our future appointees but I believe that each of our readers and members will get a little better feel for our determination and the participants credentials that will make us a success.

For those that have asked several times if we are a scam please review our adviser list. In addition, we indicated that Savingpontiac.org will approach CAGW.org and Andrew Brietbart's Big Government site. These are the last people anyone would want to examine a business if you are a scam. It would be like accepting a surprise interview from Mike Wallace of 60 minutes.

Everyone have a great Sunday and please support Savingpontiac.org.

Good Saturday Morning to all.

A little while ago I sent out a SavingPontiac.org news email to our members. In that mail I outlined our plans for this week to lift our national profile. While our small but stout volunteer staff at Savingpontiac.org can do a great deal with this effort, we are highly reliant on our members and supporters to help with this effort. In that regard, I again, this morning, want to recognize www.UltimateGTO.com for the top of site posting that they have provided to us!!!

In addtion to an update, I asked our members to see if they could push our petition signatures over 1,000 by next Saturday. This is a worthy challenge and WE can do it. If everybody that visits our site or signs our petition tells six friends we will easily exceed 1,000 by next Weekend.

Thanks again to all. I hope your Saturday is a great one. Tomorrow!!

On time and on Target.....

We are now on over 65 referencable and searchable locations on the web. The word is traveling fast. Yesterday we could be found on a model car site and a Cadillac discussion site.

We are on the Business week forums and the Newsweek forums. The speed with which Savingpontiac.org is spreading is really a great thing. We have all who visit here, all who have joined and those that have signed our petition to thank for this great success.
Motortopia, and Motor Trend have been two very helpful sites/publications we offer our special thanks to both.

Have a great Friday and Please tell all your friends to visit and particiate with Savingpontiac.org.

The 1982 Racaro edition of the Trans Am....great picture.

Yet another website picked us up today that is all about the Ricaro edition...go here: http://ohok.com/82recaro.

Each site that features Savingpontiac.org furthers our reach and introduces additional people to our shared dream of saving Pontiac!!

As these sites join the effort, we endeavor to feature them all on our daily blog. Many thanks to Gus Tziavelis for including Savingpontiac.org on his site. Everyone have a great Thursday!!