{"id":41383,"date":"2011-11-06T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T16:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mike-jackson-ceo-autonation-almost-a-libertarian-republican\/"},"modified":"2011-11-06T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T16:45:41","slug":"mike-jackson-ceo-autonation-almost-a-libertarian-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/mike-jackson-ceo-autonation-almost-a-libertarian-republican.php","title":{"rendered":"Mike Jackson, CEO AutoNation almost a &quot;libertarian Republican&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-KNu3DS98TtM\/TrPkrofg0TI\/AAAAAAAAW-w\/9y6Bjnxju6Y\/s1600\/mikejacksonAutoNation.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8fd09_mikejacksonAutoNation.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Support of bail-outs?<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>He's not quite there yet.  But we'll encourage him til he's all the way.<\/p><p>Appearing on CNBC the other day (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/libertarian-in-west-palm-beach\/mike-jackson-ceo-of-autonation-with-strong-libertarian-leanings\">The Examiner<\/a> - \"Mike Jackson, CEO of Autonation, with strong libertarian leanings\"):<\/p><blockquote><p>\"I'm pleased to announce we did retailed 18,500 new vehicles, anincrease of 6% driven by a 27% increase in premium luxury, primarily Mercedes-Benz and BMW, so apologies to occupy wall street. And we had a very strong month with the domestic up 12%, driven primarily by a significant increase in pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles. So apologies to global warming. So we can't seem to get it politically correct.\"<\/p><p>When it came to discussing the bailout of GM and Chrysler, Mike had this to say, \"I still believe -- and it pains me to say this as a libertarian Republican, the economy was so bad in '08 and '09. unfortunately, there had to be government intervention. And i'm glad we have an American automobile -- i'm glad we have an American automobile today.\"<\/p><\/blockquote><p><em>Editor's comment - Mike, the economy is far worse today in 2011 than it was in '08.<\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8fd09_7828681836623105417-8273853696266303109?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support of bail-outs?From Eric Dondero:He's not quite there yet. But we'll encourage him til he's all the way.Appearing on CNBC the other day (via The Examiner - \"Mike Jackson, CEO of Autonation, with strong libertarian leanings\"):\"I'm pleased to announce we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/mike-jackson-ceo-autonation-almost-a-libertarian-republican.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}