The Feds and this current Administration stepped in it ‘BIG’ this time.
Promising more than could ever deliver and buying an election. When will people ever wake-up!
Our current regime is of the misimpression that it's actually a trivial matter for government agencies to spend money.
Only thing good to come out of this is a lesson to the public ~ government is a deadbeat.
The customer gets slammed from every direction.
As far as I can see, the media is presenting this program as a huge success. I must be missing something — as far as I can see, it’s an epic fail.
This was all for the banks to get more consumption loans green shooted (using tax $'y as fertilizer).
I hope they learned their lesson.
Dealing with the Gov. is a carney game.
Unless your really deparate or stupid , don't do it.
These dealers thought this was the greatest thing since sliced bread before.
Now they are crying because the Federal Government is not paying up?
The FederalGovernment is BROKE.
Add to that incopmpetent, incapable and corrupt.
These dealers will be lucky to ever see a cent.
Don’t feelone bit sorry for them
wasn’t Obama going to put gas in our tanks too?
“Auto dealers say they are doing so because the federal government is a clunker when it comes to sending out rebate checks of $3,500 or $4,500 per car”
Gee why don’t we allow the Federal Government to be in charge of our health care?
When your hospital doesn’t get paid or your doctor doesn’t get paid, see how good your treatment is then............
I can actually see this whole thing blowing up in the feds face. Hopefully that rino sec of transportation, Lahood, gets a pink slip. Damn 0 apologist.
The federal government has only reimbursed auto dealers for 2 percent of the claims they’ve submitted through the popular “cash for clunkers” program, a Pennsylvania congressman said, calling on the Obama administration to help speed up the process.
Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., called for “immediate action” to address the problem in a statement Sunday, after writing a letter to President Obama Saturday expressing his concerns.
In the letter, Sestak said only 2 percent of claims have been paid and that four of every five applications have been “rejected for minor oversight.”
In recent days, auto dealers across the country have been complaining that the reimbursement payments are slow to process. And they said some of their applications were being rejected because of apparent procedural issues. The statistics Sestak cited suggest those complaints are not based on isolated incidents.
Government comes up with some grand plan and forces the taxpayers into footing the bill.
Doesn't matter if it's cash for clunkers, cap n' trade, health care...you name it.
Then there's the lovely aspect of OUR tax dollars being used to support such Utopian schemes as 'social justice' and 'equality' a la organizations such as ACORN and ACLU.
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By equality, in a democracy, is to be understood, equality of civil rights, and not of condition. Equality of rights necessarily produces inequality of possessions; because, by the laws of nature and of equality, every man has a right to use his faculties in an honest way, and the fruits of his labor, thus acquired, are his own. But some men have more strength than others; some more health; some more industry; and some more skill and ingenuity, than others; and according to these, and other circumstances the products of their labor must be various, and their property must become unequal. The rights of property must be sacred, and must be protected; otherwise there could be no exertion of either ingenuity or industry, and consequently nothing but extreme poverty, misery, and brutal ignorance.
St. George Tucker, "View of the Constitution of the United States" 1803
Silly them. They'll learn.
“You ****ed up, you trusted us.”
On Friday Gibbs categorically blamed the dealership’s “mistakes” for non-payment.
We all know that the government only hires the best of the best and they could NEVER make a mistake!
As Rush stated, now they want a Cash For Caskets program.
All dealers should have rejected this program which was placed on the backs of taxpayers. Didn’t they learn from the auto bailouts what happens when a company does business with Obama? He pulls the plug and assumes command.
These dealers get what they deserve. I have no empathy for them. Nor do I have any for those consumers who jumped on the bandwagon to get a better car deal. They did so with full knowledge it was the American taxpayer who held the burden to support the deal on their new car. But they didn’t care, nor did those dealers who participated in this taxpayer ripoff scam.
So yea, I hope those dealers and their customers suffer.
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action”…. General George Washington -
So now CAR BUYERS have to BAIL OUT the U.S. GOVERNMENT's BAD DEBT.
If I were China I'd be pretty scared about my investments.
