The Angry White Guy

A Volvo S80 Twin Turbo being toaster, this is a clunker?

Well, well, well I haven’t said a tremendous amount about this joke of a program Cash for Clunkers it’s mere existences is comedy enough. The Cash for Clunkers, which I think is just another government bailout and a waste of our money was originally funded with $1 billion and went broke in 4 days. So they inject another $2 billion into it and now they decided that do to the back log of claims they are going to shut it down 2 months early. The idea was to take “clunkers” off the road and replace them with shiny new clunkers made from tinfoil, plastic, two gerbils and a piece of cheese. But here is the deal the people out there driving the REAL CLUNKERS couldn’t afford to buy a new car even with the $3500 or $4500.00 the taxpayer kicks in, so those real clunkers stay on the road and the perfectly serviceable clunkers get ground up into scrap, sold to China to be processed back into steel over there since they don’t have the tough environmental standards and laws then sold back to the US at a higher cost. Thus using energy to destroy and grind these cars up, then shipped half way around the world to be refined in China, then put on a ship and sent back the the US… pure genius.

But, why not take the clunkers that are traded in and trade them for junkers still in the road… oh I know why, that would make sense! Take the blue smoke, oil leaking, falling apart cars off the road that some of the really poor folks drive and give them a clunker (like say a Volvo) in better quality… naw just to logical. I swear these people need to use their heads for something besides a hat rack.

So anyway as of this coming Monday night the Cash for Clunkers is no more, many dealers have already withdrawn from the program do to the failure of the government to pay up. One major west coast dealer is reportedly out $3,000,000.00 waiting on the government to pony up the cash. As I understand it only 2% of the cash has been paid out for the clunkers, leaving a lot of dealers out a lot of money. The DOT had to hire more people to help execute this tiny, tiny program in terms of government programs because of the poor planing, poor oversight, poor execution, and poor process.

So it begs the questions that I’ve posed before if the government is ill prepared to run a tiny ill conceived program like Cash for Clunkers then HOW ON EARTH CAN THEY RUN NATIONAL HEALTH CARE?

Answer: They can’t.

What will they do when they get a back log of sick and injured? What will they do when the system is overwhelmed? What will happen then? I guess they’ll just pull the plug on it… lets hope Grandma not on the other end.

Just so you know I’m not shamming you with a nice car being destroyed…
Here’s the video, it’s a real shame I’d take that car in a minute.

Another one…

You can search YouTube there are 100’s and 100’s of them of decent vehicles being destroyed that somebody driving a junker could have used. Morons, they’re all morons in Washington.

More here…
NY dealers pull out of clunkers program
Police: Clunkers program used to ditch hit-run car
Dealers stiffed as clunkers pile up
Cash for Clunkers, R.I.P. – for now

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