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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:36 AM Original message |
??? Cash for Clunkers and the Auto Bailouts |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. Trade deals with other countries. NT |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. I don't believe |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
2. Growing the pie theory |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:52 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. And yet pork for |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
3. That would be a treaty violation. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 10:16 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Nonsense. Please cite the unnamed "treaty" that would've been violated. nt |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:56 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. GATT prohibited subsidies and countervailing measures |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:04 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. There are about 3 things wrong with this answer. |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
4. Also I am dismayed that only gas-guzzlers were eligible, so those of us who drive responsible, fuel |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 10:05 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. The point of the program |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:21 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. No. Trickle down does not work - that's why the world's economy has collapsed, IMHO, nt |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:46 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. Of course trickle down doesn't work |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:18 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. How exactly were you "punished"? |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:18 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. By not being treated equally with those who chose to drive the gas guzzlers. |
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shiftingbaselines (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:31 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. yeah, but it is a huge benefit getting them off the road |
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blue_onyx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. If you think the "program is morally bankrupt" |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Sorry, you don't get to play the "environmentalist" card if a car is your primary mode of transport |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:46 PM Response to Reply #21 |
34. Actually, I've given up on the car and gone to my bicycle! It was quite the clunker.... |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 06:15 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. A few hours ago you said you had an old car |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 09:35 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. The car is parked front of my house. I have not driven it in 5 months. It is a real clunker. |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. By all means, post a pic of your bike |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 05:32 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Thanks for confirming my suspicion that you were just making stuff up |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 07:12 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Sorry, I work full time and could not get to it til now - here's a video! |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 08:02 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Or else you just needed time to Google something |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 09:56 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Surely you jest! What would convince you? |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 04:41 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. My bad. I didn't know I was supposed to actually watch the video |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:30 AM Response to Reply #42 |
43. On the other hand - the Jamis Coda Comp really is a great commuter bike... |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:39 AM Response to Reply #42 |
44. Also, this is an interesting electic bike from Scwhinn - 60 mile range, 20 min charge time, goes on |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 09:45 AM Response to Reply #42 |
45. Photo |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 04:06 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. I don't know why I was so convinced that you weren't actually a cyclist |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 05:14 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. No worries, it are the internets, after all! |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
22. It is the Democratic continuation of Idiot Frat Boy's Hummer subsidy. |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:49 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. And hardly a damned thing for |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 02:12 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
8. Yes, if the point was to stimulate auto sales, the rules were rather dumb. |
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shiftingbaselines (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. By restricting it to Gas Guzzlers it WAS "restricted" to US companies |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:53 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. Ummmm......No |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
10. Something like $100 B of the AIG bailout went to foreign corporations, too. |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:15 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I wasn't exactly |
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shiftingbaselines (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
18. Nonsense - domestics are the big winners |
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quiller4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
23. Trade policy the reason although the car outselling all others |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
24. K&R. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
27. Wouldn't it be nice if people just had enough brains to support the companies our govt. now owns? |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:58 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. That would require |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
29. I don't think its worth the fallout that would surely be if they were to exclude |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 02:12 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Sooooooo....... |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 02:18 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. In this case some is better than none |
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