For many, many years, there has been a group of American do-gooders telling us that our cars are too big, gasoline isn’t expensive enough, and it should be against the law to build and sell SUV’s.

Today, General Motors has announced the closing of the assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin by the close of 2009, or sooner, if market downturns continue. The Janesville plant is one of the locations that GM builts medium duty trucks and SUV’s.

Just watch - the do-gooders will be ecstatic that the plant is closing. No more SUV’s, no more gas-guzzling GM vehicles.

Not long after the closing, those same do-gooders will be crying about the loss of 2,700 jobs in Janesville that will come in one fell swoop. They will decry GM for releasing all those workers and tell us there ought to be a law that says GM was supposed to keep the plant open, ignoring the fact that the plant no longer builds a product that customers want to buy.

Don’t scoff - it will happen. It always does.