Cash for clunkers was first and foremost a cultural destruction program.
my car has 195,000 miles on it, my husbands 140,000....we always run our cars way up in miles...
so the thought of just destroying perfectly good running cars is blasphemy to me....
we as a society waste so much....
I thought the key words were "reduce" "resuse" and "recyle"... destroying good cars is not good for the enviroment let alone the economy and is just plain stupid and silly...
Every liberal I know thought Cash for Clunkers was brilliant. I also talked to a liberal who was all excited about getting $8,000 to buy a house. Then I told him about the “limits”. His excitement waned.
cash for clunkers didn't create economic activity, it moved economic activity. it compressed it. people bought cars sooner rather than later -- at the expense of later. or they bought cars instead of other major purchases.
It also ended up harming people by raising the price of used cars. More central planning nonsense from DC which did nothing good.
Edmunds came up with the conclusion that every incremental vehicle sold cost the taxpayers $24,000.
http://www.edmunds.com/about/press/cash-for-clunkers-results-finally-in-taxpayers-paid-24000-per-vehicle-sold-reports-edmundscom.html
One thing’s for sure: Only in the sick twisted mind of a ‘Rat would pumping up EBT be considered “economic stimulus” and “shovel ready”
Anything that uses Keynesian economic policy is bad policy. It is what failed in the Great Depression and it is failing us now.
Too bad we can’t get rid of more of those old clunkers in congress.
Regarding the title of the article, Democrats probably measure effectiveness of “cash for clunkers” program on how many votes the program is estimated to have bought for Democrats.
Anytime an article seriously mentions halting global warming, I stop reading. Any author who seriously talks about anthropomorphic global warming is too ideologically fixated for me to consider any of his other ideas.
The Sun is 1.3 million times larger than the Earth. All of humanity and our emissions are like nematode sh*t in comparison.
Cash For Clunkers was all about getting rid of vehicles that can’t be remotely-controlled or tracked.
So from the commie perspective, the program was a success.
How about Cash For Condums!
(Prevent another Obama)
Cash for clunkers was designed to get as many non black box vehicles off the road as possible. I know several people who tried to buy a “first car” for their teenagers to drive to school and after school activities and had trouble finding a decent car that was within their budgets.