Come to think of it, why stop with cars??
Instead of giving our slightly used clothes to Goodwill, the Red Cross or the Salvation Army, let’s cut them up and throw them away (cutting them up insures that some enterprising person can’t salvage them from the trash and attempt to sell them for a profit... can’t have that!).
Then, the gov’t can send out lots and lots of Cash for Clothes checks!
That should stimulate all sorts of jobs in the otherwise defunct U.S. garment industry (money can only be spent on clothes that are made in the U.S. of course, good luck finding those!).
Moving on, let’s open every can of food in our pantries and grind-up the food in the diposal!
No need to donate to a soup kitchen or food bank!
The gov’t can send out Cash for Cans (cans of food that is).
That should really help the farmers (and fisherman if you include tuna and sardines!!). Presto, agriculture is back!
And of course, the next step would be houses. Instead of letting someone buy a foreclosed house for a low price that they can afford, let’s bulldoze every vacant house in America!
Then, the gov’t can send out Cash for Condos!
Imagine the construction jobs we’ll “create”!! (btw, they are already doing that with the $8K tax credit)
Wait, there’s more! How about tearing up all of the perfectly good roads!?! Rebuilding those could keep people employed for the next couple of decades!!
Wow, this is easy! Just destroy, destroy, destroy and pay for brand new stuff with other people’s money (or borrow more $$ from our friends in China).
So glad that someone as smart as Obama, Pelosi and Reid (and Frank, don’t forget Frank) finally figured out how to fix our economy.
We are in SUCH good hands.
Not.
Actually, our illustrious congress made steps in that direction before Zero took office. They passed a law that any items that might be used by children must be certified as lead free. I haven't heard much on it lately, but according to the letter of the law, second hand books, clothing etc., even things that would never have lead in them have to be tested. It makes them too expensive to resell. Except on the black market.
I recall reading recently that they've started that process in Michigan.
Hell, why not have people barf up their handburgers and martinis and trade the spew in for cash to buy tofu and sparkling water?