Category Archives: Cash for Clunkers

Obama: Keep ‘Em Needy and Ignorant

We’re now living through the “Obama Years” (capital Y), a phrase I predict that will be looked back on some day with the same nostalgia people reserve for the Great Depression. Yep, I remember the Obama Years, future oldtimers will be telling their grandkids. People lining up on the street on the false hope of [...]

What would the Lorax say?

The law of intended consequences:

CASH FOR CLUNKERS HELPS DEALERS HIT ALL-TIME SALES RECORD!

“Cash for clunkers has captured the public’s attention . . . it has the possibility to truly jumpstart our economy,” said Rep. Candice Miller (R., Mich). Other, more sober analysts, warned that the clunkers program was only stealing from future sales.
September sales are in, and sobriety can take a bow.
Edmunds.com reports that “September’s light-vehicle sales [...]

Why Are So Many Americans Uninsured? The Answer May Surprise You

Depending evidently on the day of the week and similarly arbitrary factors, Barack Obama and other Democrats eager to pass health care reform will tell you there are anywhere between 45 million and 47 million Americans without health insurance. Even though those numbers are almost certainly an exaggeration, taken at face value they represent approximately [...]

IBALWW

Time for a small change:  in honor of The One, the Greatest Orator Since Cicero, the new once-weekly feature recapping the week will be called “It’s been a Long Wee-Wee.”
But seriously: does anyone know what “all wee-wee’d up” means?  Rush did a big riff this morning and used this strange little idiom in the sense [...]

What could possibly go wrong?

From Breitbart, a story that NY metro auto dealers are dropping out of “Cash-for-Clunkers”. Why? The bureaucrats aren’t paying for the cars; they estimate that they’ve been paid for less than 2% of their deals so far. With 400,000 deals done nationwide, I’m sure that this is a great example of how well the Feds [...]

Clunkety Clunkety Clunk

There is growing suspicion that increased auto sales caused by Cash for Clunkers came at the expense of almost all other retail spending [in July].
via Cash For Clunkers Could Be Hurting Retail Sales – KTVI.
And there’s more!
The program started late, cost $50 million to administer, crashed computers and ran out of money. All to see [...]

Cash for Clunkers–Too Good to Be True

I just knew it was too good to be true. Cash for Clunkers was just such a . . . well—darn good program that you knew there had to be a catch.
And here it is. Environmentalists are complaining that the amount of gasoline the program would save is the equivalent of what Americans on the [...]

RE: CONTENTION OF THE DAY: CLUNK, CLUNK, CLUNK

The always-entertaining, always-enlightening Jonah Goldberg opens his column today at NRO with a parable that captures perfectly the illogical thinking behind the Cash for Clunkers fiasco. The parable, from an essay by French economist Frédéric Bastiat, highlights the notion “that which is seen, and that which is not seen.”
In this case, the seen entity is [...]

The “Old Car Vandalism Program”

Suggested name change for CfC from Iowahawk, whose “Cash This, Motherclunkers” features a deeply moving image gallery.  Not that he needs it, but Iowahawk has also received guest-posting help from Arlen Specter and Kathleen Sebelius.  They’ve provided him an almost equally deeply moving essay,  “Crisis of Confidence: America’s Government Losing Faith in Out-of-Touch Constituents.”

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Cash-for-Clunkers is a clunker.

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