Posted on 12/05/2008 3:46:03 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
In the social circles of the New York Times editorialists, it's OK to have one kid. Two is pushing the envelope. Three or more is tacky, and a threat to the survival of the planet.
That being so, there's really no reason to let any car bigger than a Prius be built. Doing so just encourages the unenlightened to overbreed. And so it is that in its editorial of today, the Grey-but-barren Lady suggests that as a condition of the Detroit bailout, "Congress could consider demanding that Detroit simply phase out S.U.V.’s and vans by a certain date."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Make the Mormons walk ping to Today show list.
Eugenics Auto company
Do you really need a backseat? ;-)
Off to ZPG camp with them, to git thar mahnds raht!!
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Nice looking family. I guess my sister and I (she has 4) and I have three will be in the hurt locker in a few years when we won’t be able to buy a vehicle to comfortably fit the family. My brother and his wife only have 1 child so far so he at this moment would be ok. Now I 100 percent want the automakers to not get the bailout. Before I was not sure which way we should go...this cemented my decision.
The back seat is for hauling planetocidal breeder larvae. Off with their heads!! Zero population growth! Gaia forever!
Unless they're gay, or Democrats, or have otherwise socially redeeming features.
Nuke the straight baby humans!
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“Congress could consider demanding that Detroit simply phase out S.U.V.’s and vans by a certain date.”
Isn’t the idiea of a bailout for the Big 3 to help them survive?
Then forcing them to produce vehicles that no one is willing to buy hardly seems like an intelligent choice. Oh sorry we were talking about liberal/socialist weren’t we.....
They say that since it is very seldom they are all going to the same place at the same time, it was actually cheaper then running one big car all over.
Not at my age...
Nah. A three- or four-year-old Pacifica or other biggish vehicle (remember station wagons -- the original kid-haulers? still around) will always be available at a reasonable price and will last 150,000 miles minimum, until a Republican relief Congress shows up to push-broom away the remnants of Obammunism.
LOL. My nominee for line ‘of the morning!
Mark Finkelstein is a nut. No-one is saying that SUVs and vans don’t have a purpose, but the FACT is that SUVs and trucks have been abused — how many people have you seen in NYC that just use these monsters to get from Queens to Jersey city? Like everything in life, it has a purpose. SUVs are great for outdoorsmen, farmers, hunters, rangers etc. But for city driving, small cars make the most sense.
LOL!
What would happen to the price of used vans and SUVs if new ones aren’t being built?
“No-one is saying that SUVs and vans don’t have a purpose.”
Actually, the Times IS saying they don’t have a purpose. They are suggested they be phased OUT: meaning no more would be produced.
I’ll let Finkelstein know you think he’s a nut. Easy to do since I am Finkelstein.
As an SUV owner myself (yes, I am eeevil) may I say it is not about ‘purpose’ or ‘sense.’ It is about choice and the freedom of the market place. Any American, who has the coin to pay, should be able to drive whatever they want...when they want. If I can make the payments, insure it, and buy gas ITS MY CHOICE whether I drive my tank up the side of a mountain or five minutes to the grocery store. Its that slippery slope...I trully believe our freedoms are interlated. Take away one (choice of vehicle) and it ‘slides’ into a another take away.
Please just fill out this questionnaire the New York Times has prepared, with a few simple questions about your religious beliefs and voting habits, and the paper will let you know within 14 days whether you will be permitted to keep your SUV ;-)
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