Posted on 06/17/2009 10:11:02 AM PDT by upchuck
My 99 Ford Escort still gets 23 mpg, has 53500 actual miles on it, is in excellent condition and is paid off. I have no intention of replacing it with some new POS obamamobile.
My thoughts exactly. All of this rush legislation is coming with a lot (!!!) of unintended consequences.
When I first heard about this clunker-for-cash deal, I was thinking the perfect business would be a recycler...buy the clunkers off of the new car dealers at scrap value, and flip them to new car buyers for half the value of their tax credit. This will happen...just wait. And, if they try to put ownership rules in place, you'll see DMV-assisted scams falsifying VIN numbers and back-dating clunker purchases.
Unintended consequences...ya gotta love 'em.
The tragic sadness of your predictions is that unless this country wakes up they will come true.
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