Will wrote:
Was anyone else as sickened by this as I was?
Yes. But then, I've been sickened every day for the past 20 years, so it's
become a normal part of waking up.
You use stuff until it needs to be rebuilt, and you keep using it until
it can't be rebuilt anymore. This is called Thrift, which me and my kind
were brought up to believe was even closer to godliness than cleanliness
was.
Amen, brother. My parents grew up on the farm, during the depression, so
it's a mantra I also repeat every day. The problem is that the country's
economy is now based on continuous consumption of products that were once
durable, but are now considered by their manufacturers to be disposable.
What in God's name is
accomplished by destroying a perfectly useful machine of any kind?
Deliberately rendering it useless? I'm sorry. y'all, but this is dead
against the religion I was raised up in
Think about it for a minute. If all of these vehicles were put onto the
used car market, through auction or direct resale, the market would have
become flooded and used car prices would have dropped. So whose idea was
this? Four letters: NADA (National Automobile Dealers Association). Not
the Government's, not the politicians', but the people who sell cars. Money
talks. Citizens walk.
Rich Wagner
Montrose, CO, USA
'82 GTV6
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