The left does not want low income people driving cars. They want them in public transit.
Highways and cars are for trust fund babies and government officials.
Cash for Clunkers will prove to be a massive fraud and failure on a hundred different levels.
It is an appropriately “homely” and apparently “harmless”
piece of feel-good indirect social engineering that the Zero Adminstration probably thought they could pull over on us because they managed to wrap it in a cute “non-profit” kind of name like Cash for Clunkers. Every ongoing failure and negative repercussion of it, though, will be spun as positive (think LONG-TERM , people!), and it will I hope wind up serving as a PERFECT SYMBOL for how and why this Administration should not be entrusted with ANYTHING in your life, and should not have ANY access to your or your children’s pocketbook. A great deal should be made of what looks like the inevitable massive failure of this program.......yeah, I know so far it’s only a BILLION......see, that’s the problem when these criminals have already gotten people accustomed to hearing about HUNDREDS of billions, and TRILLIONS.
The people most affected will be the poor who otherwise would have bought those cars. Get used to walking because the gooberment doesn't want you driving.
This policy will, like many other things the evil federal government does, hurt the poor. They now have to pay more for a used car.
This is similar to when the federal government destroyed food when the poor were malnourished and hungry during the Great Depression.
Hay, wasn’t Obama going to buy us gas?
Stores and manufactures/Markets affected:
Used cars
Car repair/upkeep
Aftermarket parts
Car restoration
Charity use of cars
Training to fix cars
Rare Parts stores
Isn’t the plan actually about the move to public transportation/limitation of individual movement, bicycles and walking?
Deconstructing America and its cities. Breaking the love affair between Americans and their cars, classics and care for their cars.
The federal government is changing the rules as it goes. Suddenly, a number of cars have had their mpg rating retroactively increased to make them inelegibile for this program.
This is a total joke and fraud. The government should not meddle in the market.
This CashForClunkers scheme is just another example of how Leftists LOVE to control. To them America (the world in general) is like a dashboard with a million knobs, dials, switches, sliders, etc with only themselves behind the panel. Turn a dial, if it breaks, turn in even more. Slide a slider, if something screws up, slide it all the way. Flip a switch - if something blows up, flip a few more similar switches. When nothing works, just randomly slide, flip, turn.. until Americans get so fed up they kick the commie socialists out of the control room. Republicans take over and install a new panel with just a little fewer knobs, switches, sliders and dials.
They SELECTIVELY got rid of some of the dealers and THEN put this program into effect. The $4500....pure profit for the dealers....and right up front!! What a scam!!
A local man turned in his Cadillac. It looked like a sharp car, and I had never seen dirt on it. He bought a Prius. I will wonder if his Cadillac ever gets back on the road contrary to the rules.
Used cars will go up in price as well as new cars. The federal government is doing to the car market the same thing it has done to healthcare costs and college tuition.
1) People driving older cars, have lower insurance rates
....and most likely no monthly car payment.
2) Now they have an attractive carrot dangling in front of
...them with this possible $4500.00 prize.
3) If they had to drive older cars due to lack of money
...what makes them think they can afford higher insurance
....in addition to a new monthly car payment?
“Before we can create our Utopia we must continue to destroy America and it's wealth first.”
Next on the list the American Automobile.
What is going to happen to NAPA auto parts because of this program?
Not likely. The “cash for clunkers” program ran throught a billion dollars in an eye-blink. It’s pretty clear that this program is unsustainable. There will be quality used cars available. Could be that they will command a higher-than-normal price for a while.