Pearl of Wisdom

A friend of my mother is an educated woman of a certain age. She found a coupon offer for an inspection and tune-up of her heating unit in a mass mailing. The price was under fifty dollars so my Mom's contemporary thought she had little to lose and could have her system performing optimally through the coming winter. Well, the offer was a come-on to encourage people to buy new energy efficient systems and take advantage of the government-offered Federal Income Tax credit on a new system. The first question the salesman pretending to be a maintenance man asked her should have been the red-flag. "So- you know much about HVAC systems?" Any time a mechanic or service person asks this type of question, you should run (or send him away), particularly if you are of the distaff sex. But this poor lady is a trusting soul, so on a seven year old system that was functioning flawlessly, with a cheap offer of a tune-up, she ends up buying an Obama compliant unit which will cost five grand but on which she is told she will receive a fifteen hundred dollar tax credit. The company that trapped her even had the gall to charge for a service call as she needed more than inspection and tune-up. So with this one good lie deserves another Obama administration warping the market with stimulus that as we see here rewards graft, in this con-artist world, my Mom's old classmate just found herself taken for at least thirty-five hundred dollars. Another victory for Obama-bots over morality and reason and another example of how government mucks things up- this lady had a perfectly functional central heater that should have had years more life but rushed to take advantage of a tax break, which means that when she would have actually needed a new unit in due course, her purchase will not be made as her buying decision has already been manipulated by government, with the net result being that ultimately the stimulus stimulated nothing, it simply unnaturally prompted advancing the date of a purchase that would have been made anyway and rewarded two grifters- the one from the HVAC company and the one in the White House.