[2ndDivisionVet]

What's next?

[Army Air Corps]

Cash for grandma.

[org.whodat]

Same old welfare queens will turn up to charge their appliances to their unborn to pay interest on.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Sales of dishwashers, refrigerators, and washing machines—the three appliances covered by the appliance-rebate program—have been off by some 25 percent from their peak during the last housing boom.

Given that we have the mother of all un-booms going on now, to be down by 25% isn't bad at all.

[freebilly]

Cash for Hookers...?

[Frantzie]

Another giveaway for the scum at General Electric. Immelt is on the board of the NY Federal Reserve which is now headed by an AFL-CIO goon.

[Marie Antoinette]

Ooooooh... appliances...

[Buddy B]

And while the money is coming from Washington, how much you get for which appliance will be a state-by-state decision.

Can you step across a state-line for the best deal?

[ThunderSleeps]

Who or what could we trade in Al Gore for? He’s full of more hot air than anything or anyone else I can think of! ;-)

[SpaceBar]

The whole thing is reminiscent of China's Great Leap Forward where the population was encouraged to collect iron, scrap and otherwise, to feed the state smelters which then produced inferior metal. Maybe next we'll be told to kill birds for the good of the State.

[bleach]

D-LA. Congressman Jefferson was way ahead on this scheme. He had cash in his freezer.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

You can pick up any of those appliances at a thrift store for about $25.

This is ridiculous. Throw away a gum wrapper, they freak out because you're not recycling our precious resources. Throw away an automobile, a dishwasher, a washing machine and a refrigerator and you're a hero.

They're really going to go through all this crap for an appliance that's 10% to 25% more energy efficient? And they're really going to act shocked when the paltry sum of money they've allotted is grossly insufficient?

[4rcane]

windows. We’re going to have a national day of breaking windows to stimulate the economy

[Fast Moving Angel]

I bet they really want the older refrigerators because they contain a formula of Freon that’s been banned (but is more efficient).

[Political Junkie Too]

Cash for day laborers to mow my lawn or patch my drywall?

-PJ

[Gator113]

25’ Airstream camp trailers would be nice. ;>)

[chris_bdba]

Does anyone know what exactly this covers? I’d love to buy another freezer and wondered if that might be eligible?

[Brugmansian]

What's next?

Cash for cash.

Turn in your devalued $100 bill for a crisp new $1 bill which has the same purchasing power. South America has a history of this.

[FromLori]

See what else is in there

http://www.propublica.org/ion/stimulus/item/while-were-at-it-your-fridge-is-also-a-piece-of-junk-823

[supercat]

A program which insists upon the destruction of a less-than-optimally-efficient device will itself be inefficient if, had the device not been destroyed, it could have replaced a less efficient one. This is true no matter how the “efficiency” of the device is measured. Considering that government “efficiency” measurements often don’t really measure the desirability of a device (is a machine that uses less water but cleans less effectively more “efficient”?), it should be clear that programs to trash old equipment are at best ill-advised.