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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mph who wrote (182429)	8/14/2009 10:25:52 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

OK, here's the deal: You bring in your clunker that gets 17.5 miles per gallon. You sign a paper for Obamadollars, whereupon the dealer gives you a preliminary credit check, takes your car, drains the crank case, pours sand in the carburetor, starts the engine and red-lines the tach. If a cylinder does not pop the engine block and kill the guy, then they go directly to the paper work for getting your new car and your $4500 Obamadollars. Provided you pass the final credit check. If not, too bad. The dealers got burned with failed credit checks and got smart real fast. So you have to exonerate them before they destroy your old car. Alternative scenario (from true life): You are driving a nice 15 year-old car down the highway at 65 mph when your car precipitously loses power. You get it towed to the dealership and pay to find out what's wrong with it. They charge you $40 and say it's a broken timing belt. Bad news. Probably drove the rods and valves through the cylinders or pistons. Anyway, it will cost $1300 to fix after spending $300 to find out if it's even doable. You think: I'm not paying $1300 to fix a car that Kelly Blue Book says is worth $750 to $1400, even though it has leather seats, mag wheels, a nice sound system, and nice paint. Then you say: Let's look at used cars. There are some nice ones for $12000 to $22000. Heck for that you could get a new car with Obamadollars. You go to the largest Chrysler dealer in the world and they are very friendly. You look at several nice cars and hear the pitch about how they will match the Obamadollars. You start to think about it. Let's take a look at your car, they say. Can't. It's dead in the yard. Maybe we could fix it up good enough to run forwards and backwards for the documentation, because if we cheat there's a $50000 fine. If it runs forwards and backwards we can go ahead and get your new car. OK. Let's look up the data sheet. Oh, I'm sorry. Your dead car formerly got 19 miles per gallon, so it is ineligible for Obamadollars. We can't fix it up so it will run, so Obama can destroy it again. He only wants to destroy functioning vehicles: nice little Ford Rangers, Escalades, Chevies, and the like. Anything that gets less than 18 mpg. Oh well, Obamadollars are a pain in the butt anyway; you can still get our matching funds. Fat chance.