Date:         Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:57:03 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: economic woes and such ..
Comments: To: joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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At 06:05 PM 4/17/2009, joel walker wrote:
>suppose, just suppose, that instead of giving money to the car
>companies, the government just reimbursed them as they GAVE their
>inventory away.
>
>An Alternate Ecomonic Bailout Stimulus Package Deal :)
>(bailout to me has always been what you do with a parachute when the
>plane is on fire or the wings are falling off. stimulus? well, the
>less said, the better).

Or when the boat is full, or when your lowlife brother is in jail...

Many years ago ('60s), John Campbell, the then editor of Analog
Science Fiction magazine, proposed in an editorial that the
government specify and contract for a no-frills GI-standard
automobile, and issue one to every enlisted bod in the military and
the new ones as they entered.  Maybe officers too, I forget.  He
thought various good things would come of it, mainly IIRC that
practically nobody would be unable to afford a vehicle because of
standardization savings on the initial vehicle cost and the
development of an inexpensive used market as military folks bought
cars they liked better when they could afford to.


  --
David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'89 Po' White Star "Scamp"