I Couldn't Believe This One!

Hi Everyone:

I read about this story last month and it was put on the back-burner until now. If I gave an award for the complete opposite of a CSA, this would be at or near the top.

This story is absolutely true, believe it or not. Prior to the cash for clunkers program (that ends tomorrow, I think) Mark Muller, a new car/truck dealer in Butler, MO; came up with the most unusual and what I think most outrageous marketing plan to increase his sales.

Muller's unbelievable promotion was this: if you bought a new truck you would receive a voucher for an AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifle. WHAT!!!!!! When Muller was being interviewed about his deal by BBC and CNN interviewers, he was asked about how he could give a voucher to just anyone and everyone? Muller responded that he was only giving vouchers and not the actual guns. The recipients would still have to go through the FBI background check prior to receiving the weapon. "Americans love guns" he told interviewer Robin Lustig, a Newshour host at BBC. "All of them?" Lustig asked. "Except for the Commies," Muller replied.

AK-47's were created, designed and manufactured for one sole purpose................... to kill people. I am so speechless and dumbfounded that someone would actually implement such a program and then to think that it is OK. This is so wrong at every level. It is obvious to me that even if common sense were to hit Muller squarely in the face, he would not recognize it or probably, more sadly, not even want it.

Enough said.

Til next week.