First news story I read this morning is about Waco Dodge protesting the closure of Chrysler dealerships.

“This is mostly to say that the bailout didn’t work and there’s still people losing their jobs,” Waco Dodge General Manager Holly Dunham said.

It didn’t work? People are still losing jobs? That’s unpossible! Those “good” folks in Washington told us this wouldn’t happen if we just allowed them to flush everything down the toilet.

Though some in attendance say they don’t doubt the government had good intentions, the bailout didn’t work.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

“The taxation of the youth that’s coming up, they’re going to be paying for this big bill,” [Protester Wes] Hardin said.

This wasn’t realized months ago when all this bailout fiasco first raised up?

But for dealership employees, their dissatisfaction stems from government intervention.

“The government is involved in as much as there is a task force, the automotive task force who’s dictating the terms of Chrysler’s bankruptcy and telling them what they need to do and how they need to do it,” Dunham said.

She said Chrysler was told by the task force to cut back on their dealerships.

The government sticking their noses into everything. Yes, it’s always the positive and fruitful solution. What happened to “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” being the scariest words in the English language?

Dunham said before the bailout money got involved, a better alternative would have been for Chrysler to leave it up to the dealerships to stay open because naturally the economy would have forced some doors to close, and profitable dealers could have stayed open.

You mean let the free markets work things out? Gosh, what a concept.

To be fair, I do get the feeling those directly involved in this (the particular dealership owners, employees, etc.) actually have a clue that this bailout stuff was a sham from the get go. But to those that thought bailouts would solve things, that the government is the answer (not the cause) of all our problems, I offer up Exhibit A.