When You're Worth More Dead Than Alive

IBD Editorials ^ | August 14, 2009 | ERIC SINGER

[Kaslin]

The resounding "success" that Democrats are citing with the Cash for Clunkers program just goes to show that if you're giving away a billion dollars in the name of mumbo-jumbo environmentalism, you can do it in a week rather than five months as planned, and that people will be just as happy to take $3 billion dollars as $1 billion dollars.

The program gives cash incentives of up to $4,500 for people to trade in perfectly serviceable old cars for new cars with slightly greater mileage, all in the name of stopping global warming.

There's only one catch in the charade: recycling old cars and old car parts would, if honestly accounted for, result in less environmental damage when measured by the energy used to make the new cars and scrap the old ones.

Dishonest Politicians

At the same time we're stuffing money into car buyers' pockets, President Obama and Congress have been loudly pursuing health care reform that will insure (1) an additional 46 million Americans and illegal immigrants, (2) lower costs, (3) provide better treatment, (4) be paid for only by those making more than a million dollars a year, (5) eliminate fraud, (6) continue the parade of malpractice lawsuits, and (7) get us all to consistently exercise and diet — all without changing what we already have and no new doctors or nurses.

It is truly a miracle, just like the budgeted Cash for Clunkers, which took almost a full week to run out. Talk about cost controls.

In fact, the real health care problem is that Medicaid and Medicare have trillions in unfunded future liabilities that cannot be met. If these programs continue in their present form, they will require rationing.

[Kaslin]

[antceecee]

Cash for Clunkers is a Dem big Government give away for votes. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with conscientious concern for recycling and the environment.

[Sender]

Desperate to show some improvement in the economy, C4C gives a temporary boost to new car sales, relieving the bulging backlog of unsold cars and gives a temporary boost to the unions Obama is beholden to. See, people are buying new cars again. The stimulus is working. Right?

But it can't go on forever. When the C4C money runs out for good, new car sales will hit the wall. Many people who could afford to buy new will have already done so while the "free" money was available. Those who have no job or shaky jobs will continue patching up Old Bertha.

Cash for Clunkers is a lot like Mayor Daley's "gun buy-back" program. All hat, no cattle.

If they really want stimulus, long-lasting, meaningful stimulus, make incentives to manufacture all those Chinese goods right here. Tax incentives, hiring incentives, expansion incentives. If we're working and making a decent paycheck, we'll buy some cars.

[Mr. K]

Not only that, but used car parts will go through the roof.

the govt has just thrown a monkey wrench into the whole auto industry, that will be felt in another month or two

[Chode]

kinda like Michael Jackson...

[infowarrior]

Not only that, but used car parts will go through the roof.

the govt has just thrown a monkey wrench into the whole auto industry, that will be felt in another month or two...

Ah, the law of unintended consequences... Or are they really unintended? Higher prioces for used car parts could be the start of a trend for gooberment to "encourage" mass transit, by discouraging motor vehicle ownership, in various ways. With this current sleazy, dishonest bunch, its hard to tell, at first.

The situation will bear some careful watching, to be sure...

the infowarrior

[1FreeAmerican]

This guy has got the right title but the wrong analogy. Between the soon to be renewed and most likely increased death tax - combined with obumbi’s national health care telling us we have to die when we get old - we will most certainly be worth more to the guberment dead than alive.

[Liz]

When You're Worth More Dead Than Alive

The infamous 2007 Body Parts Scandal involved many NY-NJ funeral homes. Now we see the 2009 New Jersey-Brooklyn body-snatchers.......where individuals were selling kidneys for $100,00 from Phillipine donors who were paid $10,000.

There hundreds of millions of dollars in selling organs and body parts.

Think of the numerous lucrative organ market scams popping up once health records are nationalized under Obamacare.

Now that the economy is totally destroyed, carving up dead bodies and selling organs and body parts will have enormous appeal as a gov’t money-maker.

REFERENCE The 2007 NYC body brokers story: “Embalmer Granted Separate NYC Trial in Body Parts Scandal” SOURCE http://defendourfreedoms.net/2007/12/29/embalmer-granted-separate-nyc-trial-in-body-parts-scandal.aspx

[maica]

[maica]

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This author really knows how to make sharp points.

The new law also contemplates end-of-life counseling. With this approach, it is only a matter of time before your children will be offered bounties for persuading you to take an early exit.

So now we've come full circle. As the government completes its gradual takeover of the auto and health care industries, we begin to learn the new truths: old cars are disposable, old people are disposable, the Constitution is disposable, the country is disposable.

Another unintended consequence, which is beneficial to the country, of the Cash for Clunkers disgrace --- it has become apparent to too many Americans how disposable we appear to be to the Powers that Be. And it has awakened the general public to just say NO to Obamacare.

Schadenfreude!

[Kaslin]

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