Posted on 08/01/2009 5:10:57 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Disabling the engine on cash for clunkers. Volvo is super tough!
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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.
Why does this somehow remind me of Stalin’s “famines”?
Same here. I have a perfect candidate for this program..1992 T bird that’s kindof falling apart. But I can’t bring myself to waste it.
In fact, after seeing this video, I think I’ll put some money into the old girl. I only drive 4 miles round trip to get to work, and I’ve got no payments!
If the point of this program is to help the environment, it’s got a lot of unintended consequenses. Old Car has to be scrapped before its time, and new one has to be produced. That, I would think, would be a net negative in my case.
I’m glad I’m not the only person who gets attached to inanimate objects.
Birds of a feather?
Actually, our illustrious congress made steps in that direction before Zero took office. They passed a law that any items that might be used by children must be certified as lead free. I haven't heard much on it lately, but according to the letter of the law, second hand books, clothing etc., even things that would never have lead in them have to be tested. It makes them too expensive to resell. Except on the black market.
It is simply amazing, a very wasteful program, Waste not, want not.
That was sickening. Those fools laughing at the end was also sickening.
Wasting a perfectly good car, I would have gladly paid the owner of that car $4500 for it.
Of course not all of the cars they get are like that, but anyone wanting to buy an older car in good shape ,say for $2,000 dollars now is not going to find one.
The price of used cars just went up to $4500 dollars minimum.
40000+ views, 400+ comments, all of them negative about the C4C program. This is beautiful. Like I was telling my wife today, the truth is that Americans are having to learn a valuable lesson the hard way. It’s a shame, but I suppose it has to happen every few generations. People forget. Those that lived through these kinds of things twice have mostly died off. Along comes a generation that either doesn’t know any better, or believes that this time it’s different. Well, we all get to take the ride now, and some of us get the consolation prize of being able to say “I told you so.” And hopefully we come out the other side a little wiser, even if we’ve all got sore keisters.
This is an outrageous scam.
Lower income folk - like me - will not be able to afford a decent second hand car - because the few that will be left around will demand a much higher price than usual - and there is likely to be no warrenty, even limited, as the only sellers will be the owners - second hand dealers will be put out of business.
Why is no one asking where all this new scrap metal is going to go? Is this the scheme to replace the scrap brass that they tried to get to China by crushing all the military spend shells and selling to China instead of allowing the age-old practice of reloading outfits to buy and reload the shells? (The NRA blew that out of the water.)
So did China throw a fit and demand they find another source of ‘scrap metal’?
Something more is afoot here than meets to eye.
It looks like most of the ‘clunkers’ being turned in are perfectly viable vehicles in good condition as the common denominator of the folks turning them in is folk who can also afford to take out a car loan and pay the increased insurance.
This is wrong in every way you can look at it.
Yep. These are the people we want in charge of our health care. Actually, their ideas on health care is similar. The elderly will be the clunkers to let die...
LOL CASH FOR GRANNIES!,,Somebody has to do it.
Typical government stupidity. Take something of value and destroy it for no good reason.
We’ve been down this road before with FDR destroying crops and livestock during the “First” Depression.
Disturbing? This is just practice for what they’re planning to do to people.
I just had a glimpse of the US Constitution flip through my mind when I read that.
Talk about moral decay..
The politicos pander to the populace as they wish.
Sad to watch fine machines like that snuffed out to play with OPM for votes or just the pure folly of it.
Maybe it is time to just flush them all.. moral reprobates.. marching under a ‘green’ banner. they didn’t give a crap about the children 50 years and they sure don’t now... evidence TARP and the Stimulus legislation of late.
Who’s in charge of the CongrA$$ the last 2 years? hmmmm.
bet their limo doesn’t qualify to get squashed..
This is the kind of stuff to expect when we have traitors destroying our republic...
Exactly what is going to happen to our elderly and disabled.
Remember the movie ‘Robots’ and the evil people in the film? RENT IT!!!!!! It is PERFECT for what is happening to the car industry.
I recall reading recently that they've started that process in Michigan.
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