An Inconvenient Car Leads to Inconvenient Lives
This video (via Instapundit) makes me inexplicably sad.
Some chucklehead, who should never be allowed to drive anything powered by more than a lawn mower engine, traded in a Chevrolet Corvette in order to buy one of the government-approved cars under the Cash for Clunkers program.
Ordinarily, some car lover with a sense of history and what American used to produce, would have bought that car and gotten some real joy out of it for a few more years. Under the Democrats’ new law, though, the ‘Vette was simply too inconvenient to be allowed to live. So it was destroyed long before its time like an unwanted dog in a pound.
It’s a testament to the sort of cars we used to drive that the doomed car took almost five minutes to die.
In a related story, Oregon’s government-run health care program told a woman with cancer that it won’t pay for an expensive medical treatment that could keep her alive but it will pay someone to kill her. That’s how programs like this work. Indeed, it is the only way they can work. When there is a limited amount of a resource, whether it’s health care money or the allowable amount of carbon dioxide, someone will have to choose who gets to use that resource. Our government believes that government bureaucrats should make that decision. I believe that decision should belong to you.
No bureaucrats has the right or the authority to decide that you are too inconvenient to live.
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- Who Will Control Your Life – You or Them?
Category: Health Care Craziness, The Rise of the Nanny State
You know, these car videos make me cry. And if my dad were still alive today, he would be suicidal over all of this. He worked on cars all his life. He bought many vehicles from salvage auctions and fixed them up like new. My favorite truck I owned was a 1993 Ford Ranger XLT, bought from the salvage yard in 1995 w/ 20k miles on it. All that was wrong w/ it was the driver's side was peeled off in an accident. We bought it for $2500 and put another $2K into parts (by buying a similarly more wrecked Ranger at the same auction.) So for $4500 dollars (plus free labor, courtesy of my dad) I drove that great truck for 11 years and, aside from wrecking it once more myself, had no engine trouble or other repair work done to it ever. And I still was able to sell it for about $500 dollars. Unbelievable to me what they are calling "junk".
Many of the cars being turned in for a cash for clunker voucher would have been donated to charity. Those cars would have been sold or given to the poor instead of destroyed. It seems like a terrible waste.