Posted on 08/02/2009 4:36:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Nazis had their book burnings and the Obama Socialists have vehicle destructions!!!
Even worse, the most valuable parts of the purchased vehicles, their engines and transmissions, are destroyed, eliminating an economical source of spare parts for other vehicles. This is the first time I've seen deliberate vandalism and wanton destruction of valuable resources that are particularly useful to low income people enshrined as national policy.
One possible silver lining of this Trotskyist plot is that ordinary citizens will see radical, redistributionist, liberalism up close.
And yet it’s still less than the porkulus bill.
What a waste of tax payer money
I liken it to the wanton and willful destruction of military equipment bought and paid for by the labor of the American people. There should be no way for such destruction to take place, unless parting out, or salvage price is more than the sale price to the American people. Perfectly good jeeps will not be cut in half, weapons will not be rendered inoperative, except for nuclear of course, perfectly good aircraft will not be chopped up for salvage.
Right but this is a Government Program. Logic is irrelevent. This is just another attempt to prop up the falling house of cards. The way I see it. We are like the twin Towers on 9/11. Both planes have hit and we are burning. The only question is WHEN the collapse will occur and how many of us can escape. I am PLANNING on the collapse. I only hope my escape is successful.
“I propose a new type ATM. All you have to do is push a button and free money is dispensed. The economy would BOOM. Obama could put one in every store. Put it right before the checkout line.”
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The Obamanoughts would probably go for that but you would have to spend six hours filling out forms to get fifty dollars in “free” money.
True we need to streamline the program. How about internet downloads. We could go to a printer freindly version for 20’s 50’s and 1,000,000 Federal Reserve notes and print up our own free money. Kinkos could do it for those who do not have computers.
“It is only a means to achieve their goal of complete domination.”
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I think you are absolutely correct! My next thought is to ask what kind of a dead soul lives for no other purpose than to gain power over others even if the result is to make us all live in a hell on Earth? These people are ghouls.
The Toyota dealer across the street from my house has their cash for clunkers turn-ins parked at the empty lot next door. It’s very sad and depressing, and makes me very angry, at least 60 cars that look very new, usuable are being destroyed. I took pics and sent them to the local paper. More people should try to do this - get pics for evidence, I can’t believe that the greenie/recycle party is promoting the destruction of perfectly good vehicles.
oh, not to mention, i did a driveby survey of all the dealers in my neighborhood, Ford, Toyota, Honda, Dodge/Chrysler, Chevy on Saturday. All of the customers were at Toyota. All of the SCIONS are gone (completely built in Japan). Just who’s economy did we help? Oh, I also read a blogger that said they went to get the deal and tried to pay cash for the balance. They told this person the deal only applied to “financed” deals. What’s up with that?
“Multiply this by thousands and the Government is really sticking it to lower income citizens by denying them reliable, inexpensive transportation.”
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Not just low income people, I have a relative who is VERY well off, he won’t show up in fortune magazine but he is one of those who has retired very comfortably. He makes a lot of trips from Kannapolis, NC to Myrtle Beach and he made many of those trips in a Honda Accord that he bought used for $2000.00. It ran like a new car, I don’t know if he still has it but that sort of cost cutting is one of the reasons he is financially as comfortable as he is.
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Our "award-winning" "mainstream" news media does not want "average" Americans to know too many details.
I looked up the numbers of annual sales in America and found on the website of NADA National Automobile Dealers Association that 16.1 million "light duty vehicles" were sold in 2007, and 13 million in 2008.
So let us say that without any government programs of 'stimulus' at least 10 million vehicles would have been sold this year.
That works out to almost 200,000 vehicles every week.
U.S. Auto Sales May Reach 2009 High on ‘Clunkers’ Aid
July 31 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. auto sales may reach a 2009 high in July after the government’s $1 billion “cash-for- clunkers” incentives program lured shoppers back to showrooms.
Industrywide deliveries will run at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 10.1 million cars and light trucks, based on 7 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Sales will fall 24 percent at General Motors Co., 33 percent at Chrysler Group LLC and 6.1 percent at Ford Motor Co., according to 6 estimates.
A sales rate matching the analysts’ projections may signal a possible bottom to the worst slump in demand since at least 1976. Buyers drained most of the initial “clunkers” funding in less than a week, spurring the U.S. House to approve an emergency measure today to add $2 billion more.
“The incentives coupled with already high car company discounts have put a new automobile within reach of consumers that would have shopped for a used vehicle,” said Joe Barker, an analyst at consultant CSM Worldwide Inc. in Northville, Michigan.
Automakers report July sales on Aug. 3. The results will show the industry suffered its 21st consecutive month of declines. A 10.1 million annual rate would be 19 percent less than a year earlier.
I agree with you completely. Plus, in exchange for removing affordable “pre-owned” cars from the market, the govt is putting the new buyers into loans that they would not necessarily be wanting to make this summer.
Next summer I foresee a government plan to pay many of these loans so that the car dealers are not forced to repossess many of these ‘new’ cars.
Because I own a dearly loved 1993 car, I received a letter from a local dealership that I was eligible for one of these subsidies. All I could think of was the waste of advertising dollars for the dealer - and the bonus for whatever advertising company which made money on this fancy mailer.
The reason cash for clunkers is so popular is that it’s the only initiative the Obama Administration will allow that puts money in the pockets of mom & pop. The rest of the stimulus only puts money in the hands of bureaucrats.
” They told this person the deal only applied to “financed” deals. What’s up with that? “
Is this true?? I had not heard of it until now....
Something definitely rotten, here.....
the only thing I can think of is the stimulus money only applies to the poor - if you can afford to pay cash for a car then you don’t qualify
I respect my fellow citizens too much to take advantage of them. I respect the engineering and labor that went into building my “clunker” too much to allow the feds to destroy it. The clunker BTW runs fine. This government is bent upon destruction. They have not the intellect to build.
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