Posted on 06/17/2009 10:11:02 AM PDT by upchuck
It appears that she has taken up nobama's mantra of "now, now, now!" I hear he's giving classes on the weekends.
they scaled way back on the deductions you can take for donating your old car to charity because they coveted the additional revenue. Do they have any idea how many junkyards will get emptied out with this program?
The remaining favored dealers that you didn't just directly force out of business, you mean?
The older cars would be taken off the streets and recycled
Well, dang it - I was looking forward to bleeding the taxpayers to replace my beater. Now it looks like I’ll have to get up off my OWN wallet.
it’s a stampede to socialism
they know if legislation slows down and people get a chance to look in depth there will be trouble
that’s why the blitz for socialized medicine and cap N tax
That would be the auto dealers Zero just put out of business???
I am not giving up my 1979 Chevy pick up. It can haul 12,000 lbs, has AC/heat, good shocks, tires, transmission, brakes, etc. It is a great truck. I do need it to haul my horses.
Right: Scale back on real charities getting real dollars - privately! - and create another government give-a-way bailing out the union-trickle-down-theory of economics.
This is what worries me. The chassis with the engine has to be crushed, it can be stripped for parts, but the question is, who does it?
Do we end up with a hightly unionized "TSA" type of organization full of political hacks and lackies, that sit their and watch the crusher to confim the deed is done?
What effect does this have on oh so many junk yards with small mom and pops trying to eek out a living on old hulks?
My guess is these power hungy Bastardo's want to control these folks too....
The government will take it from you and give you a 2-wheeled, 2 seat version of the Segway
Maybe the Government will ALSO buy your horses and put those methane producing beasts in a boneyard somewhere... it's for the good of everyone, mind you. /sarc
Sorry, Obama, you can’t even pay me to drive your Kommie Kars.
You’ll be eating your horses before Obama is through with us all.
The Democrats want you to help support their UNION buddies and their outrageous benefits.
I’m beginning to think it would be more beneficial to my country to buy a foreign auto...at least, I wouldn’t be supporting people who vote for Democrats that are determined to destroy this country.
A fix for that: the clunker must have been titled to the person trading it in for at least 6 months.
There needs to be ONE TOPIC ONLY rules for ANY bill in Congress.
Any President in the Oval Office needs the LINE ITEM VETO.
Hiding other items inside bills that have a warm and fuzzy title is pure fraud.
On edmunds.com they said that the vehicle had to be the owner’s name for at least a year before it qualifies - that should slow down some buy-it-to-trade-it-in moves (if it ever passes) but will still skew the markets.
My car is 10 year old, Oldsmobile cutlass. 6 cylinders. Still getting >24 mpg all city driving, 32 highway. I am not sure they can do much better than that.
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