Posted on 09/05/2017 7:30:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We’re all supposed to be surprised?
“... great Keynesian experiment...P>It was a Kenyanesian debacle.
It was a Kenyanesian debacle.
“Under the bipartisan program, the ...”
Yeah, right.
When my Daughter got married they had both just graduated from college. She had a job as an English teacher and he was working part time and getting a second degree as an RN. He is a big gorilla but they apparently find that useful in hospitals.
Their only car was an old Cavalier which had been salvaged from a flood and sold honestly as one which had been flooded and refurbished. She asked for my advice on a new car.
Since they didn’t have much money, I suggested a Corolla. I was a bit surprised when they actually took my advice.
Fifteen years later they are living the good life. Partly due to his having a high salary and partly due to inheriting around a half million dollars. That Toyota was traded in several cars ago.
The affordability of used cars was wildly distorted as well.
“accidentally”
I’ve had one for eleven years. It’s been paid off for five. I get 40 mpg on a flat highway. It’s got 239,000 miles on the odometer and has had only regular maintenance and a replaced clutch at about 190,000. Best car I ever owned, hands down.
Horsesht! It was not cash for clunkers, it was the Obama era insane gas prices that never got a democrat complaint. But during Bush Sr Desert Storm, all the papers were plastering about gas going from 95cents to 1.25.
My Brother-in-Law gave me his old 97 Lumina. It now has 202,000 miles on it. He did nothing except the normal things which happen to all cars but no major maintenance.
The same week I got it, a warning light came on. As luck would have it, Wal-Mart was clearing out a code reader that same week. It was marked down from $100 to $25.
It indicated “insufficient flow in the egr valve” It took me a week to look it up on the internet and I eventually cut the magnet off a pick-up tool and chucked the handle in a drill.
The device worked perfectly. As I squeezed on the drill the flexible wire was wound in a direction which literally pulled itself through the channel. I ran it though a few times, sprayed a little carb cleaner and ran it a few more times and it was clear. The light went off and has not come back on.
now it runs very smoothly but I keep hearing noiese in the rear which I can’t figure out. It is front wheel drive so it might be rear shocks.
Indeed, that experiment got us inflation and high gas price, hence the move to gas savers like the Corrola... has nothing to do with subsidies, or, rather, because of the catastrophic effect of subsidies
Accident? The headline reads “Accidentally”. Pravda
All it did was take all of the older cars that the poor could afford, and bumped their prices to over $5000. Then, they gave them to China to build ships and tanks
I love my Corolla——great car for my current needs.
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“...helped cut environmental damages by $253 per vehicle.”
I’d love to see the assumptions behind the calculations for that.
Versa is a great car.
As I see it,it did a couple things. 1. It scrapped out some decent used cars & really messed up that market to some extent. 2. It took taxpayer money from some who didn’t need a new car or couldn’t afford one & helped others into a new car. Why should one taxpayer’s money be helping another into a new car?
As I see it,it did a couple things. 1. It scrapped out some decent used cars & really messed up that market to some extent. 2. It took taxpayer money from some who didn’t need a new car or couldn’t afford one & helped others into a new car. Why should one taxpayer’s money be helping another into a new car?
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