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(of course those engines would die too...)
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as reported by our local yards and on local News.
Oh, if you'd like, this is the recipe for the poison the clunker must digest
[www.reuters.com]
just add four parts BARS Head Gasket Sealer if you are in a pinch.
.....make the pain of this stop, please.
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Then, as usual, our Madison news channels are reporting things wrong.
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To be fair, Civics and Corollas are still built in the States, by Americans, and much of that revenue stays here.
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How fucking dare anyone out there turn in their poor battered old clunkers. They've given their carburetors for you! Sure they give shitty mileage! THEY CAN'T HELP IT!
What you don't realize is those old cars still work. You're lucky they even START FOR YOU BASTARDS!!
LEAVE THE CLUNKERS ALONE!!
*sniffle* Please.
Right. Now. Anybody wants to get rid of their clunkers just send them to me.
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They're just shit.
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Wish I could turn it in on a used Touareg V10 TDI...
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Man, look at all that twine. And yet, I somehow suspect that it won't be enough to restrain the load over anything more upsetting than a handful of dropped change.
Note too that the twine is artfully placed to disallow opening the driver's door. Preventing anyone getting in and driving away cannot be a bad thing in this case.
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Check out the Washington insider. You learn all kinds of stuff reading jalop.
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Not the government.
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@Goes Like Stink: How about a Fit?
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Sure...go ahead and provide a design, why dontcha....
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/has nightmare images of civics with truck nutz, M/T tires and roo bars
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So lets get this straight…..a person who can afford to buy a car intended for the middle to high-middle class family, say a Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, MSRP $41k, uses the car for a few years and then decides he has had enough and that maybe he doesn’t want to go through the hassle of selling it or maybe even donating it to the needy, instead he chooses to junk it via the Cash for Clunkers C.A.R.S. program, which takes money from the working American public (via taxes) and gives it to this guy so he can once again drive a brand new car, which incidentally he has enough money to afford to make payments for and have full coverage. The poor, the truly needy, cannot benefit from the program since they cannot afford payments on a new car (especially not one as high as the $45k limit the government allows) nor the expensive full coverage insurance charged that financing or leasing a new car in the most populous parts of the country entails.
The end results:
• Distribute the wealth of the American public to those who do not really need it.
• Destroy a perfectly good luxury car that could have been given to the truly needy.
• Make more waste and pollution.
• Give money to the still very wealthy car manufacturers, most of which are not even American...does not matter if the cars are made here the majority of the money goes to the country of origin of the corporation.
• If the new car is a Hybrid, as of now there is no infrastructure to deal with the stock pile of highly polluting batteries that these cars will need to replace in 8 years or less…..fact!
There is a benefit though…..if the people who buy these new economical cars manage to keep them running for oh say 20-50 years, then there might actually be small ding in the amount of pollution made….but that is probably moot since these cars already did so much damage with their batteries that we will probably need some new hair brained govt. program to deal with that.
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[OMBUDSMAN'S NOTE: No really, it was that good?]
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So lets get this straight…..a person who can afford to buy a car intended for the middle to high-middle class family, say a Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, MSRP $41k, uses the car for a few years and then decides he has had enough and that maybe he doesn’t want to go through the hassle of selling it or maybe even donating it to the needy, instead he chooses to junk it via the Cash for Clunkers C.A.R.S. program, which takes money from the working American public (via taxes) and gives it to this guy so he can once again drive a brand new car, which incidentally he has enough money to afford to make payments for and have full coverage. The poor, the truly needy, cannot benefit from the program since they cannot afford payments on a new car (especially not one as high as the $45k limit the government allows) nor the expensive full coverage insurance charged that financing or leasing a new car in the most populous parts of the country entails.
The end results:
• Distribute the wealth of the American public to those who do not really need it.
• Destroy a perfectly good luxury car that could have been given to the truly needy.
• Make more waste and pollution.
• Give money to the still very wealthy car manufacturers, most of which are not even American...does not matter if the cars are made here the majority of the money goes to the country of origin of the corporation.
• If the new car is a Hybrid, as of now there is no infrastructure to deal with the stock pile of highly polluting batteries that these cars will need to replace in 8 years or less…..fact!
There is a benefit though…..if the people who buy these new economical cars manage to keep them running for oh say 20-50 years, then there might actually be small ding in the amount of pollution made….but that is probably moot since these cars already did so much damage with their batteries that we will probably need some new hair brained govt. program to deal with that.
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[OMBUDSMAN'S NOTE: You thought it was that good, hunh?]
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Let's throw more money at a worthless program.
We lose a dollar on every unit.
How do you make it up?
Volume!
08/06/09
So lets get this straight…..a person who can afford to buy a car intended for the middle to high-middle class family, say a Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, MSRP $41k, uses the car for a few years and then decides he has had enough and that maybe he doesn’t want to go through the hassle of selling it or maybe even donating it to the needy, instead he chooses to junk it via the Cash for Clunkers C.A.R.S. program, which takes money from the working American public (via taxes) and gives it to this guy so he can once again drive a brand new car, which incidentally he has enough money to afford to make payments for and have full coverage. The poor, the truly needy, cannot benefit from the program since they cannot afford payments on a new car (especially not one as high as the $45k limit the government allows) nor the expensive full coverage insurance charged that financing or leasing a new car in the most populous parts of the country entails.
The end results:
• Distribute the wealth of the American public to those who do not really need it.
• Destroy a perfectly good luxury car that could have been given to the truly needy.
• Make more waste and pollution.
• Give money to the still very wealthy car manufacturers, most of which are not even American...does not matter if the cars are made here the majority of the money goes to the country of origin of the corporation.
• If the new car is a Hybrid, as of now there is no infrastructure to deal with the stock pile of highly polluting batteries that these cars will need to replace in 8 years or less…..fact!
There is a benefit though…..if the people who buy these new economical cars manage to keep them running for oh say 20-50 years, then there might actually be small ding in the amount of pollution made….but that is probably moot since these cars already did so much damage with their batteries that we will probably need some new hair brained govt. program to deal with that.
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Source?