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Originally Posted by 67Zenith
I think that the way the Obama administration wants everything old to be trashed (such as their program to scrap refrigerators built before 1995 and the "cash for clunkers" program, which means cars made before 1998 - well...they want us to trash everything vintage. Maybe this is their way to make consumers spend money to buy newly made junk. It's scary to wipe out our history but we live in these times. Maybe next they will say that VCRs are unsafe (LOL) and everyone has to scrap them and only use DVDs! In any case, I'd keep a few of ANYTHING vintage you can afford to keep now and hang onto them.
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Scrap fridges made before 1995?! cars made before 1998?!
But trust someone who has enough cash in his dresser drawer alone to buy a brand new Lincoln to propose something like that.
And it wouldn't surprise me if they made it illegal to even own anything over 10 years old. They'll probabally have cops rade your houses and give people heavy fines for owning older electronics/appliances/etc.
That sounds a lot like Canada, actually. I can totally see the RCMP doing that. because of course, who cares about the rapists, murderers, gang members, etc, when there's hard working honest people driving older cars with slight exhaust leaks.
And here in Saskatoon, they actually have spot checks all over the city, and the cops pull every car over 10 years old and inspect it. I know someone who's car got pulled off the road because it had a small rust hole in the back, the battery wasn't strapped down with anything, etc.
He doesn't have a lot of money, so he bought some cheap POS with a million things wrong with it, and it needs constant servicing. But hey, it's under 10 years old. His old car was very reliable and never gave him problems.
Now he's in debt, but hey, at least the pigs are happy.