RETRY: Hope you've traded in your clunker

never fear, Congress is rushing to add a few more billion to it! Did anyone
ever think one of these "entitlement" programs would be allowed to go
unfunded for long?

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:09:04 -0700, twisted wrote:

> On Jul 30, 7:02 pm, Hachiroku ãƒ�ãƒ�ãƒ*ク > wrote:
>> because the program is out of money
>
> House approves extending 'cash for clunkers'
> Lawmakers pass $2 billion bill to keep program alive; will go to
> Senate
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32228179/ns/business-autos/


More money from our pockets to the government's.

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> In article >,
> FatMoe > wrote:
>
>> I knowed it was gonna happen! Just like the HD converter boxes that
>> never happened, and which I might add HAD TO BUY WITH MY OWN MONEY!!
>
> They weren't HD converter boxes, they were digital TV converter boxes.
>
> Secondly, they DID happen. That YOU ****ed up and couldn't follow a few
> simple steps to get one, is YOUR fault--no one else's.

I grabbed 4 total! Don't have any left though. Donated two to the fire
station, one to a local library and another to a non computer family.

The CHEAP units most folks got were trash though....

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Steve W.

On Jul 30, 7:02 pm, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B > wrote:
> because the program is out of money

House approves extending 'cash for clunkers'
Lawmakers pass $2 billion bill to keep program alive; will go to
Senate

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32228179/ns/business-autos/

I saw/heard on today's local tv news, the clunkers that are traded in
for new vehicles, the clunkers have to be destroyed.

DTV converter boxes,,, I subscribe to DirecTV, so I don't need one of
those boxes.
cuhulin

On Jul 31, 8:16*pm, wrote:
> I saw/heard on today's local tv news, the clunkers that are traded in
> for new vehicles, the clunkers have to be destroyed.
..
> cuhulin

Yup-er

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:16:47 -0500, cuhulin wrote:

> I saw/heard on today's local tv news, the clunkers that are traded in
> for new vehicles, the clunkers have to be destroyed.

A lot of the dealers are stripping them for parts, so they can sell the
parts for people with similar models who are laid off and can't afford a
new car, even at fire sale prices...

>
> DTV converter boxes,,, I subscribe to DirecTV, so I don't need one of
> those boxes.

Likewise. But I watch TCM way too much...


> cuhulin

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:21:02 +0000, Roger Blake wrote:

> On 2009-08-01, > wrote:
>> I saw/heard on today's local tv news, the clunkers that are traded in
>> for new vehicles, the clunkers have to be destroyed.
>
> Yeah - really "environmentally friendly" to take perfectly good vehicles
> and crush them in favor of manufacturing more. And those low-income folk
> looking for an old car in decent shape at a low price? The hell with 'em.


Yup. Prices on vehicles that qualify have risen sharply.

There was a similar progam in Mass to get cars that don't have OBD-II on
them off the road. They were offering up to $750 for them, but you had to
have a registration and had to own the car for over a year, so prices
didn't rise sharply.

>
> As I said, I have a car that certainly would qualify. The *******s are
> not going to get their filthy, grubby hands on it.


What is it? I have a Supra that would probably qualify, but I sure as hell
ain't going to replace it with a Hyundai!

Roger Blake wrote:
> On 2009-08-01, > wrote:
>> I saw/heard on today's local tv news, the clunkers that are traded in
>> for new vehicles, the clunkers have to be destroyed.
>
> Yeah - really "environmentally friendly" to take perfectly good vehicles
> and crush them in favor of manufacturing more. And those low-income folk
> looking for an old car in decent shape at a low price? The hell with 'em.
>
> As I said, I have a car that certainly would qualify. The *******s are
> not going to get their filthy, grubby hands on it.
>

good for you. seriously, I agree with you 100%.

Friend of mine just traded in a rough but serviceable pickup that just
needed a new windshield and some front end work. I'm sure some less
privileged individual would be glad to have it, but then again, they
wouldn't have paid my friend $4500 for it either. This policy
encourages waste.

Hell, if I didn't need a pickup of my own, I could have done the same
thing. And mine's in better shape, and still not worth $4500 on the
open market.

nate

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Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> In article >,
> FatMoe > wrote:
>
>>> Secondly, they DID happen. That YOU ****ed up and couldn't follow a few
>>> simple steps to get one, is YOUR fault--no one else's.
>> I ordered the coupons, got them, and went to wallyworld to get the
>> made in china or vietnam HD converter box and a big bag of chips made in
>> the US of A. Whoa...... there were none, no converter boxes, thank gawd
>> they had plenty of tater chips. So I went back a week later and no
>> converter boxes again, but they had tater chips, and a month later, and
>> on and on. The coupons expired. Now how is that my fault?
>
> You went to ONE place, and you didn't do it frequently enough for their
> stock schedules.
>
> You could have bought these things online, you know.

Dish had them for a while but last I checked they didn't have them. I
really thought I'd just pick a couple up for around 50 bucks each and
pay the 10 dollars difference total 20 bucks out of pocket and be done
with it, it didn't ever happen. A couple of walmarts and a K-mart I
went to didn't have them, when wallyworld did have them the coupons
were long expired. Radio Shack had them for 65 bucks. Anyway the gal
finally has a working TV again, only a few channels but she was very
happy to have a TV again.