"Cash for clunkers" -- charitable donations of cars plummet

Charities are reporting a great reduction in the number of automobiles
being donated. In some (many?) cases, charities were reconditioning
donated clunkers for use as basic transportation for people to get to
jobs, and in the process training other people in basic automobile
repairs to enable them to get work.

Perce

 

Been on the news for a while already about this. Seems to me some of the
cars turned in(with marginally bad gas mileage) could be given to these
organizations for turning around to folks in need rather then destroyed.
Maybe even give the
tax breaks to the dealers since they don't seem to be getting much of the
clunker money promised by our government...

 

That would just result in corrupt practices by scam artists. Billions
would be needed to monitor such a program to prevent fraud, and the
fraud would happen anyway. The costs would outweigh the benefits (but
that wouldn't bother them). The important thing is that they feel good
about it, and if it costs the taxpayer more money that they don't have
for them to feel good about it, then so be it. It would be another way
to funnel more money to ACORN and their off-shoot corporations, but to
Obama, that would be the real benefit.

And they want to run our health care!

Liberal ideas *always* fail to anticipate the unintended consequences
and end up hurting the very people they claim to be caring and looking
out for. The results are always the opposite of the stated intent.

I wouldn't be surprised if the government's solution is to forcibly take
billions *more* out of our pockets to "right" this result of their
incompetence - and they'll call that stimulus.

 

Put that comment in the perspective of eight years of Bush/Cheney lies.

 

Besides you not being able to provide specific examples of opposite
results of stated intent from the liberal ideas of Bush/Cheney, we are
talking about cash for clunkers and the present situation. Care to join
into that conversation - and without the Saul Alinsky "Rules for
Radicals" methods (that don't seem to be working too well for Obama
right now).

 

Note the newsgroup is rec.autos.makers.chrysler

WTF does your limp "liberal ideas *always* fail" generalization and post
have to do with it, hypocrite?

 

Umm - clunkers are cars. Chryslers are cars. Chryslers can be clunkers
in the context of this discussion. The cash for clunkers idiocy falls
under the broader category of "liberal ideas..." that "...always fail".
Too many steps for you to follow, perhaps.

 

Yeah, right.

Take it and uranus to alt.politics.planet.arch-winguts.whackjobs

 

Haven't you figured out that Saul Alinsky tactics don't work anymore?
Obama et al are finding that out once they got out of the Chicago
microcosm where people fall for that crap. Free speech wins out when
things aren't rushed thru under the guise of being an emergency and
people don't have a chance to read, consider, and discuss what the heck
they are voting on. For Obama to pass his stuff from now on, he'll have
to crush free speech. We'll see how that goes. eh?

 

Like dumbya's PATRIOT Act, right, moron? What a friggin cretin.

Take it and uranus to alt.politics.planet.arch-wingnut.whackjob.liars

 

Saul Alinsky and his tactics are dead.

 

Answer the question, you dissembling fuckwit.

Like dumbya's PATRIOT Act, right?

Take it and uranus to alt.politics.planet.arch-wingnut.whackjob.liars

 

I have. Then I put that comment in the perspective of 7 months of
Obama/Biden. It's even worse.

 

Most of the contents of the patriot act was written before Bush was even
in office.

 

I am really getting tired of flyers being left on my 1993 Voyager,
telling me that "this vehicle qualifies for the "cash for clunkers
program."" First of all, it is not a "clunker," and I plan on keeping
it for many more years, thank you.

Even with the incentives, insurance costs are higher on a new vehicle,
as are registration fees. Our state has quadrupled the fees over the
past several years.

-KM

 

Saul Alinsky and his Rules for Radicals are dead.

Info. on Green Jobs Czar - Van Jones:
Excerpt from a Nov. 2005 interview in the East Bay Express:
Jones had planned to move to Washington, DC, and had already landed a
job and an apartment there. But in jail, he said, "I met all these young
radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and
anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'"
Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San
Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of
those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months
that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in
with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then
the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a
communist." In 1994, the young activists formed a socialist collective,
Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, which
held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a
multiracial socialist utopia. They protested police brutality and got
arrested for crashing through police barricades. In 1996, Jones decided
to launch his own operation, which he named the Ella Baker Center after
an unsung hero of the civil-rights movement.

This is the kind of people who are trying to run our country.

 

The most controversial provisions in the Act, including FISA, were
subject to 'sunset' provisions in 2005. It was these provisions that
Bush subsequently tortured in the Reauthorization, and violated to boot,
including via domestic warrantless wiretapping.

 

Putney the frustrated, dissembling fuckwit and his soapbox are empty.

 

Get used to it.

We're not going back to your wrong-way, dead-end thinking for at least
another 7-1/2 years.

 

Don't count your chickens til they hatch...