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I Want Some Cash For My Clunker
I keep thinking to myself that this CARS Program as it is called now (really known as Cash for Clunkers) is just another absurd welfare program. I find myself thinking that because I know that’s exactly what it is.
Then I tell myself that I might as well get a piece of this pie. I mean someone is going to get it anyway. This is my chance to finally cash in on the system!
I drive a 2002 Ford Windstar and my second vehicle is a 1995 Ford Bronco. It leaves quite the carbon footprint. However that is not the “clunker” that I would like to have demolished (I love it too much for that).
My wife drives a 1995 Ford Thunderbird with over 200,000 miles on it. It still runs just fine but is a little rough around the edges any more with rust and fading paint taking over the car. We haven’t gotten our use out of time and time again. I told her that we are getting her a newer car next spring. Then this CforC deal comes around and I find myself thinking that I might as well take advantage of it. I just can’t see demolishing this useful vehicle though when it could be a good vehicle for someone who needs a cheap car. Because that’s what happens to these “clunkers” they get scrapped.
So as Stimulus goes this really doesn’t do much but move the date up in which we were going to buy a car. It seems like someone else on the Wall Street Journal website agrees with me: Cash From Clunkers Let’s have a $4,500 subsidy for everything.
So as it stands we have a personal stimulus on homes and vehicles so I I wonder what the next “logical” progression would be for this thought process? Maybe we should give a subsidy for everything. With this current thinking process that would just be Common Sense! That’s not the kind of Common Sense I want though, how about you?
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August 11, 2009 at 7:18 am
As for me, absolutely not! No way!
I am very vocal about how unconstitutional it is for our ‘leaders’ to spend tax payer money on a purely political program, not aimed at helping the economy, but aimed at funding more of the ‘man made global warming’ steaming pile of dung!
No way! I would rather drive a ‘clunker’ (in our case a 1979 Camaro, a 1984 Bronco & 2001 Ford Windstar mini van) than try to sleep at night knowing I justified doing what I clearly see, and profess, to be wrong.
This program has simply proven the fact that Americans will jump and run if you wave money at them. It is a profound statement about the decline of our people. The same ones jumping here will also not hesitate to jump at “free” healthcare, which will simply be healthcare at the expense of working men and women. Much like cars….paid for by working men and women.
The program sucks.
Bufford
PS…science now claims we are in a global ‘cooling’ trend so I am increasing my carbon foot print to as big as I can get it to save the planet. When it is big enough I want to shove it up Al Gore’s tailpipe!
August 11, 2009 at 10:20 am
Glad to know you’re helping warm things up!
August 13, 2009 at 2:28 am
“science now claims we are in a global ‘cooling’ trend ”
It’s like trying to ask a blonde whether or not the turn signal is working, “It’s cooling! No wait! It’s warming! Wait wait, hold on it’s cooling again…”
I say the cash for clunkers could have some potential, but the fact that it allows the rebate for foreign cars and the fact that they just trash the car that’s been traded in I say it’s pretty stupid in that regard. I mean if the car is cannot be driven (or at least it is much more profitable to scrape it than repair it) upon trade in I can understand but not when it’s a working car.