The insanity of ‘Cash for Clunkers’
Update: Step 7) Do everything possible to make this terrible program permanent and print MORE money.
1) Government takes $1 Billion it DOES NOT HAVE and WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COLLECT with current tax rates and spending.
2) Government gives that $1 Billion to car owners in exchange for cars that are perfectly drivable and are largely owned outright.
3) That money given to individuals by government is used to pay to purchase a new car. The individual is now IN DEBT for the remaining cost of the car.
4) Government insists perfectly drivable cars are destroyed.
5) In first week government spends the $1 Billion that was supposed to last through end of October.
6) Government seeks to add $2 Billion more it DOES NOT HAVE and WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COLLECT with current tax rates and spending to keep the program going.
Bonus: Government makes the rules so confusing they total 135 pages
Bonus 2: The flashy Web site that cost big $ to produce crashes and burns under the weight of actually having to process requests for the program.
So our government is spending money it does not have to destroy cars that people own so that they can go into debt to finance the purchase of new cars. Somehow lawmakers and Democrats believe the fact that the mismanaged, confusing and debt creating program is a success because people are taking the imaginary printed money to accrue more personal debt during a recession.
WHAT?
In conclusion, I cannot wait until the government runs health care. I am sure the $1 Trillion estimated cost won’t be exceeded. I am sure the GE computer systems holding our digital medical records will work just fine. I am sure the rules won’t be so confusing that people are drowned in a sea of bureaucracy. I am entirely sure government will work. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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July 31st, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Feel free to come up with some ideas of your own…
Until you do getting greener cars on the road is better than anything 8 years of republican rule ever got us. Sure it may have flaws and maybe it isn’t even a workable idea but again it is better than anything you have proposed
Until you do I think Government run healthcare might just be better than what we have.. Insurance companies getting rich off premiums paid by working people and then canceling those same people as soon as they have to actually pay out anything.
Maybe you could even stop your obstructionist biatching and whining and actually try to be part of the solution
If you can’t be part of the solution then maybe you could just shut up…. no hope of that (what was I thinking) as long as there is a Fox News there will be a place for republican wingnuts to spout off
July 31st, 2009 at 9:47 pm
a) Many are perfectly good cars so I don’t need an idea of my own. I could care less if they are “greener” or not honestly.
b) You and the rest of the libs and Congress don’t seem to understand THE MONEY DOESN’T EXIST. This is not three billion dollars we have collected or will collect. It is three billion we are just printing. We are destroying our economy and our dollar for programs like this and you are doing it while saying:
” Sure it may have flaws and maybe it isn’t even a workable idea…”
“Green” is a marketing term and you are destroying our economy and helping people gather more debt for nothing. Meanwhile whenever anyone points out that these endless spending programs don’t work the lib answer is “well at least we tried. Sure it is a failure, but we tried. Yes it makes things worse, but we tried. We just need MORE money” presumably so it can be an even larger failure.
August 1st, 2009 at 2:43 am
Damien
I had to get out my 2nd grade english book to understand what you were typing, but, now I get it.
Your enlightened, beloved Democratic party has the majority in both houses, so you don’t need us for squat. So, pass it already. What? Ya can’t? Your own party is obstructing the vote? No way. So, we’ll just take your advice, and sit back. And watch you implode.