snarlt brownback? >> thank you mr. chairman. i wanted to associate myself with the comments that have been made so far andals i want to thank the panelists for being here. this is a tough time for you, too, i'm sure these aren't decisions easy ones you have made or that make lightly and i'm sure everyone is pretty frustrated about what's happen pping and what has taken place. i've had a number of deal ners my state say we don't cost g.m. or chrysler anything. so why are they cutting us off? and seemed to me to be a legitimate question to ask if your sales force isn't costing you anything, why would you cut them off? and the second piece is i'm sure you have numbers saying why this is why we are doing this but why is it that when you look at the numbers when you radedly cli downsize your distribution network you're going to be more profitable in the future by doing that because i understand you've got more dealerships than toyota, honda, others that maybe built their dealership network at a later date than what you did, but by do