Posted on 02/08/2009 6:45:17 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Why should anything cost anybody anything? *SMIRK*
And if I buy a $1K beater car, can I keep the $9K they're giving away? I can? Yippee!!!
How 'bout a $5000 check to anyone who replaces an overseas software guy with a American one?
ML/NJ (software guy)
And just like college tuition.....
.....the price will rise to absorb the subsidy.
Just give every person living in America — citizen, legal immigrant, illegal, tourist, whatever — ten million dollars.
Then everybody can buy everything and the economic problems are all solved!
Why didn’t anyone think of this sooner?
oooohhhh, I was only dreaming......
I want a pony!!!
Actually this car coupon trick is going to be done in Germany. The deal here is that you trade in a 9-year old car or older (you had own it twelve months or more), and you get $3250 in a coupon. The car has to be German-made, of course. The last week, this has been a huge topic and the car salesmen are busy with tons of fresh business. There is a limit of course....the first 600,000 folks in...get the deal. So there is a rush.
If you look around, Ford, GM and Chrysler are in deep trouble, with no car sales. The $15 billion we gave to Chrysler and GM? Simply flushing down the drain. They will be back by April for more money because cars aren’t selling. I’m guessing the Obama administration will be stupid enough to hand them another $15 billion...rather than use the $15 billion for car coupons.
Can I have a free pony too?
Even if we get a voucher, there will be strings attached.. Meaning you can’t buy an SUV or truck and it has to be from the Dead Three auto companies..
Ha, Free? That just means the dealers can add 5k to the sticker. Makes me want to vomit that I own 3 cars I bought from Bergtrom in Neenah......
Pie. Where’s my pie. I was promised pie and I want it NOW!
So an industry can’t weather an 11% downturn? 11% doesn’t seem like the end of the world. What the heck?
Next will be the American Dental Association demanding 5K vouchers for getting teeth fixed!
Pick ‘n Pay will demanding $100K vouchers for shoes.
Costco will be asking for $2,000K vouchers for food.
Ayn Rand was a prophetess!
At some point, every one of my kids has had a brainstorm and says to me “Daddy, let’s make pennies like dollars”.
BINGO! Just as big education does to college tuition!
Pie!
You and I are not the getters of free ponies but the buyer of said ponies for others.
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