Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 2015 23:54:37 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Westy camping in Europe, home now, part 2
Comments: To: Mudd 'Not Jack' Sparrow <rummaging@YAHOO.COM>
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Actually, the company and the Beetle were products of Hitler's plan to get Germans to buy cars through a government program.

---- Mudd 'Not Jack' Sparrow <rummaging@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> You're right.
>
> Adolf Hitler was never affiliated with VW in anyway.
>
>
> > On Jul 28, 2015, at 8:49 PM, BenT <syncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Fair warning. Politics are NOT allowed on the list. It should suffice to mention that the government instituted a tax on commercial vehicle imports. Identifying the sitting party at the time the protective tariff was instituted is inappropriate. The opposing party could have move to repeal that tariff, which they did not. You have been warned for the second time.
> >
> > BenT
> > Mod
> >
> >> On Jul 28, 2015, at 8:31 PM, Mudd 'Not Jack' Sparrow <rummaging@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> You never heard of the chicken tax.
> >>
> >> The biggest reason you aren't harvesting the quarter panels from Commercial Vanagons to save your rustling VW, or converting Commercial Vanagons to Subaru ect, is due to the chicken tax.
> >>
> >> Europeans could have just let the free market decide, and maybe they would have found US chicken meat disgusting given that we treat them so foul.
> >>
> >> In any event, it was a Democrat who responded in a retaliatory fashion instead of finding a better way to respond.
> >>
> >> And you're the one who suffers today.
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Jul 28, 2015, at 7:14 PM, BenT <syncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dave is correct. That is an inappropriate comment for the Vanagon List.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> BenT
> >>> Mod
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Jul 28, 2015, at 6:42 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> This sounds like a political jab to me, and I don't think that whatever party is in office has anything to do with whether or not a Vanagon could be brought over.
> >>>>
> >>>> What is the FCV?
> >>>>
> >>>> mcneely
> >>>>
> >>>> ---- Mudd 'Not Jack' Sparrow <rummaging@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> >>>>> That must be a Canadian thing.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I doubt you could easily being a Vanagon into the UniStates.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> DemoCrates on the FCV would never allow it.

--
David McNeely