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Obama Admin. Withholds "Clunkers" Data
AP ^ | 0804/09 | Staffwriter

Posted on 08/04/2009 12:34:59 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl

The Obama administration is refusing to release government records on its "cash-for-clunkers" rebate program that would substantiate - or undercut - White House claims of the program's success, even as the president presses the Senate for a quick vote for $2 billion to boost car sales.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clunker; government; obama; senate
Surprise, surprise. I ran a search for this; hope I'm not duplicating a post.
1 posted on 08/04/2009 12:34:59 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl
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To: TennesseeGirl

So much for the heralded transparency.

To paraphrase the car salesman quoted on Drudge ‘the Govt can run a simple program like Cash for Clunkers, but they think they can run health care?’


2 posted on 08/04/2009 12:39:38 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom ("First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win!" Mahatma Ghandi)
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To: TennesseeGirl

The 0pacity continues.


3 posted on 08/04/2009 12:39:41 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TennesseeGirl

More transparency?

I can hardly take it.

It’s...it’s as if I had X-ray vision and could see *everything*.

/s


4 posted on 08/04/2009 12:40:11 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away..............)
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To: TennesseeGirl

So no one is allowed to check the efficacy of a billion dollar program, but we’re told government run healthcare will be just FINE—a BIG money-saver!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA


5 posted on 08/04/2009 12:42:42 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: Oldpuppymax
So much for helping Obamamotors. Six of the top 10 vehicles being purchased are Honda, Toyota and Hyundai.
6 posted on 08/04/2009 12:50:51 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl
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To: TennesseeGirl

So will asking for it get us labeled crazy conspiracy nuts?


7 posted on 08/04/2009 12:51:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: TennesseeGirl

Don’t you just love the smell of transparency in the morning?


8 posted on 08/04/2009 12:51:23 PM PDT by mort56 (He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. - Ben Franklin)
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To: TennesseeGirl

“We’re too busy handing out money to keep track of it.”


9 posted on 08/04/2009 12:53:18 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: TennesseeGirl

Need to look under Rahm’s toe-shoes.
I am sure the data are there.


10 posted on 08/04/2009 12:56:11 PM PDT by rod1
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To: Pearls Before Swine

LOL Too busy handing out other peoples money and hiding the books so they don’t have to be accountable for mass fraud.

Problem with socialism is you run out of other peoples money to spend. . . Lady Margaret Thatcher


11 posted on 08/04/2009 1:02:44 PM PDT by exbrit
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To: TennesseeGirl
The Obama administration is refusing to release government records on its "cash-for-clunkers" rebate program that would substantiate - or undercut - White House claims

If it proved the system was working then the data would be front page news.

Since it is not front page news...

12 posted on 08/04/2009 1:07:48 PM PDT by 11Bush
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To: TennesseeGirl

All this money that is NOT GOING TO AMERICA.

Guys, I don’t want to feel like my head is tightly wrapped in tinfoil anymore than it already is, but I have a sneaky feeling in my gut that money is being funnelled out of America and God knows where.

NO ACCOUNTABILITY.

Bernanke making a Congressman laugh by saying why we gave enough money to New Zealand for every citizen to receive $30,000 each was to help the world credit or some such nonsense.

We are being robbed and mocked while it’s happening.


13 posted on 08/04/2009 1:21:26 PM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: cripplecreek

No, but you will be labeled a sore loser racist.


14 posted on 08/04/2009 1:22:45 PM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: exbrit
LOL Too busy handing out other peoples money ..

Believe it or not, this was the gist of a Fox reporter's summary of a government officials reply when asked as to why there was no accounting given on the clunker program.

15 posted on 08/04/2009 1:26:41 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: TennesseeGirl
I've heard several dealers say they can't even get on line to find out if someone is qualified. A couple of them say they haven't been able to get through a single deal under this scheme. Another one said the software was so poorly written and implemented that it alone was keeping the program from going anywhere.

I heard the dealer who had the great buy a car get an AK-47 promotion saying the whole thing is a big lie. Hopefully someone can find his interview and make it available. He pointed out dozens of problems with the program and how impossible it was to get through the online process to even determine if a particular deal was eligible. Oh goodness, there's that eligibility thing again.

Obviously the system of checks and balances our forefathers provided to help prevent such debacles has failed in this case. They never conceived that anyone would actually get into the Oval Office without having proved their eligibility or that Congress would put us trillions of dollars into debt and then continue to pile trillions more on top of that. One of the underpinnings of scams throughout history has been that to work they had to be big, really big. Maybe that's what's really meant by “too big to fail!”

16 posted on 08/04/2009 2:18:28 PM PDT by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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To: TennesseeGirl
So much for helping Obamamotors. Six of the top 10 vehicles being purchased are Honda, Toyota and Hyundai.

Wow, nobody saw *that* coming! ;-)

Also, I do believe this occasion calls for...


17 posted on 08/04/2009 2:57:20 PM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: TennesseeGirl

BTTT.


18 posted on 08/05/2009 5:44:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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