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Disturbing Video: Volvo Cash for Clunkers Engine Disabling
YouTube ^ | July 30, 2009 | rrader1

Posted on 08/01/2009 5:10:57 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Disabling the engine on cash for clunkers. Volvo is super tough!

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: cashclunkers; clunkers; volvo; youtube
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I found this VIDEO hightly disturbing. They took a perfectly good car and DESTROYED its engine. How stupid is this. The parts could have been used on other engines. Apparently others have the same reaction judging by the YouTube comments. Also that car could have been sold to someone who needed cheap transportation. Now it is WORTHLESS.
1 posted on 08/01/2009 5:10:57 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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That car appears to be in mint condition, both the body and the engine compartment. What a country it is with Rats in charge.


2 posted on 08/01/2009 5:15:16 PM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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Where is (are?) all those emissions going?


3 posted on 08/01/2009 5:17:42 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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This is nuts.


4 posted on 08/01/2009 5:18:55 PM PDT by FTJM
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Imagine what people living in poor nations must think if they watch this video of us actually destroying perfectly good engines. Did this idea originate with Timothy Geithner? Who thought it was alright to DESTROY perfectly good engines?


5 posted on 08/01/2009 5:19:58 PM PDT by PJ-Comix ("They spent a trillion dollars on a guess?" ---Astute DUmmie observation)
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They consider that a clunker? Jeeze...


6 posted on 08/01/2009 5:20:09 PM PDT by mnehring
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This is one of the dumbest things this country has ever come up with.

Cash for Clunkers is wasteful.

Cash for Clunkers does not recycle, but instead destroys parts which could be used again.

The people who came up with this stupid program deserve nothing but ridicule.

There is nothing good to come out of this at all, it wastes taxpayer dollars, it wastes property that still has value, it goes against the entire grain of recycling and using resources wisely, it actually wastes energy, as new cars must be produced for every car that is destroyed!

7 posted on 08/01/2009 5:20:41 PM PDT by Kansas58
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I don’t get what happened there. Looks like a cryin’ shame.....even a crime. Why’d they wreck that Volvo? Just to participate in “cash for clunkers”? Disgusting.


8 posted on 08/01/2009 5:21:36 PM PDT by NoRedTape
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This makes me think, even if I was inclined to trade in any of my cars, I wouldn’t because I would hate to see anyone do this to any of them. I guess I get attached.


9 posted on 08/01/2009 5:22:00 PM PDT by mnehring
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They took a perfectly good car and DESTROYED its engine. How stupid is this.

This is right out of FDR's playbook.

Glenn Beck touched on this a couple of days ago.

FDR ordered 10 million acres of cotton burned in order to drive up the price of cotton even though there were people who could barely afford clothes.

He ordered 6 million pigs killed in order to drive up the price of pork even though people could barely afford to buy food.

There are other examples I'm sure.

10 posted on 08/01/2009 5:22:54 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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according to the rules of CARS the only thing that can be done to the trade in’s is to destroy them which is ashame but we all know who made the rules.


11 posted on 08/01/2009 5:23:17 PM PDT by nnn0jeh
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This would be a great commercial to advertise Obama’s health care program Cash for Grannies.


12 posted on 08/01/2009 5:26:15 PM PDT by mnehring
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Come to think of it, why stop with cars??

Instead of giving our slightly used clothes to Goodwill, the Red Cross or the Salvation Army, let’s cut them up and throw them away (cutting them up insures that some enterprising person can’t salvage them from the trash and attempt to sell them for a profit... can’t have that!).

Then, the gov’t can send out lots and lots of Cash for Clothes checks!

That should stimulate all sorts of jobs in the otherwise defunct U.S. garment industry (money can only be spent on clothes that are made in the U.S. of course, good luck finding those!).

Moving on, let’s open every can of food in our pantries and grind-up the food in the diposal!

No need to donate to a soup kitchen or food bank!

The gov’t can send out Cash for Cans (cans of food that is).

That should really help the farmers (and fisherman if you include tuna and sardines!!). Presto, agriculture is back!

And of course, the next step would be houses. Instead of letting someone buy a foreclosed house for a low price that they can afford, let’s bulldoze every vacant house in America!

Then, the gov’t can send out Cash for Condos!

Imagine the construction jobs we’ll “create”!! (btw, they are already doing that with the $8K tax credit)

Wait, there’s more! How about tearing up all of the perfectly good roads!?! Rebuilding those could keep people employed for the next couple of decades!!

Wow, this is easy! Just destroy, destroy, destroy and pay for brand new stuff with other people’s money (or borrow more $$ from our friends in China).

So glad that someone as smart as Obama, Pelosi and Reid (and Frank, don’t forget Frank) finally figured out how to fix our economy.

We are in SUCH good hands.

Not.


13 posted on 08/01/2009 5:27:00 PM PDT by Painesright
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I just realized where I’ve seen this before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnLU9nyFSA


14 posted on 08/01/2009 5:27:14 PM PDT by mnehring
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This made me sick, but thanks just the same.


15 posted on 08/01/2009 5:27:54 PM PDT by Not now, Not ever! (The devil made me do it!,.......................................................( well, not really.)
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What the bumer should have done is make them turn in Foreign Cars and require them to buy American Cars.


16 posted on 08/01/2009 5:31:09 PM PDT by ArtyFO (I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
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Where is (are?) all those emissions going?

Up the gas stack of the steel mill making the parts for the next car to replace this perfectly good one.

17 posted on 08/01/2009 5:31:24 PM PDT by ronnietherocket2
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Insane liberalism strikes again...


18 posted on 08/01/2009 5:32:41 PM PDT by Barney59 ("Amen")
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To: Kansas58

Where, oh where, is AL GORE when we need him?? Save the Planet!!!! Al?? Are you there??


19 posted on 08/01/2009 5:34:17 PM PDT by Semperfiwife (Health "care" - by the same folks who run Amtrak and the post office)
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Reminds me of a spoiled brat kid in our neighborhood that purposely blew his engine so daddy would buy him a new vehicle. I laughed everytime I watched that boy walk to his part time job (to pay for another car) for the next year.


20 posted on 08/01/2009 5:37:39 PM PDT by indyhome
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