Can you truly describe Cash for Clunkers a successful program?
Didn’t Nancy Pelosi get all fidgety w/ excitement about the ’success’ of Cash for Clunkers?
What then would you make of the following update?
UPDATE: The Washington Times reports this morning:
The U.S. Transportation Department, billions of dollars behind in paying "cash-for-clunkers" rebates, has hired private contractors and solicited volunteers from the Federal Aviation Administration and its own executive ranks to work overtime to clear the backlog.
Employees of the FAA’s air-traffic-control unit were asked to help, but the Transportation Department stressed Friday that essential safety personnel were not diverted from their duties.
A total of 1,200 workers, including about 300 contractors from Citigroup, the financial services giant, are now working seven days a week to review applications and reimburse auto dealers for rebates advanced to customers, officials said.
On Thursday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the program would stop taking applications Monday at 8 p.m. to provide an "orderly wind-down" and ease uncertainty about when funds would run out.
The National Automobile Dealers Association, which had endorsed the move, urged the Obama administration late Friday to extend the deadline because the program’s Web site was crashing.
"Many dealers are working round-the-clock to submit their ‘clunkers’ applications to meet the administration’s deadline," the group said. "Despite these efforts, computer issues may prevent some ‘clunker’ applications from being submitted in time, through no fault of the dealers."
AND WE’RE GOING TO TRUST THEM TO A TRILLION DOLLAR OVERHAUL OF HEALTHCARE??
A program’s success is measured in terms of its goals. The Cash for Clunkers program had the modest goals of removing a certain number of gas guzzlers from the road and stimulating sales in the auto industry. Those goals have been met and exceeded. The program has therefore been a great success.
March 26th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
A program’s success is measured in terms of its goals. The Cash for Clunkers program had the modest goals of removing a certain number of gas guzzlers from the road and stimulating sales in the auto industry. Those goals have been met and exceeded. The program has therefore been a great success.
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March 26th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Brilliant. President Wee Wee just left town on a two week vacation, and now we have air traffic controllers doing paperwork for auto dealers.
Traffic controllers getting paid $100,000 a year to cut rebate checks to car dealerships? Can One Term Barry screw things up any more than he already has?
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March 26th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
It just bought new gas guzzlers for more then half of these people, and brought a new burden on them at the same time. They now have new vehicle that will be repossessed because they really can’t afford it. People looking for a used reliable car to find work and get to work are now out of luck, because of this program.
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March 26th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
cash for clunkers is a damn MESS since most of the auto dealers have NOT been re-imbursed. It might be safe to say that if this is how the government runs programs, we are in major trouble!
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March 26th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
by their definition it was a success, they stiffed the dealers who are left holding the bag, got to add more government jobs and create a lot of paper works that is needless and got to destroy resources that others could have used and pay the EPA money to demolish the cars per government rules and regs.
you have to redefine success as we have been told to redefine patriotism. if you don’t get it, you will have to be re-educated.
God help us if they go nuclear in congress and shove this so called health care down the collective…see i am learning their lingo too.
bipartisan now means that one rino was told how to vote and how they will get paid off for that vote.
this senior citizen cancer paitnet doesn’t trust them at all. i know how it is in Europe as i have relatives who lived there. no one really knows how catastrophic this would be for our citizens and our nation.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G44NCvNDLfc
March 26th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Cash for Clunkers goes far deeper than most are willing to admit. Part of the deal with the computer program is that in the privacy statement, the applicant is giving over access of their "personal" computer to the government.
Only now are some people beginning to realize that the program is also responsible for having gutted the used car industry as well as the after market sales of spare/salvaged parts. All vehicles turned in, regardless of their condition and mileage, are completely scrapped, including having their engines destroyed.
AND, when you finally realize that Congress owns 61% of GM as well as most of the major financial institutions that are approving the loans, you may (if you have a brain) begin to get the sinking feeling that you’ve been had. Bill Clinton killed the economy with his "more affordable" housing scam and drove the unemployment rate up to almost the same levels as during the Great Depression with his signing off on NAFTA and WTO. So, what you end up with, is the same morons who couldn’t think far enough ahead to see that Variable Interest Rate Home Mortgage Loans were a bad thing and that they really COULDN’T afford what they were signing for, are now being duped into buying cars they cannot afford.
And, if their paper work is rejected (after 8 PM Monday), the dealership from which they bought their new car will be forced to call them and give them the option of keeping the new car at a higher rate of pay (than what was agreed to with the (up to) $4500 rebate), or, they can simply return the new car, pay for the time they "rented" it, the mileage they wracked up and then quite literally walk home with nothing their trade in having already been scrapped.
In the years to come, there will be a marked line of delineation in the used car market that will show an almost complete wipe out of cars from the 1990s-2009 being completely absent from the lots and museums and spare parts being almost impossible to acquire.
Do we trust the Obama administration? To do what? Destroy the economy and capitalism? Yes. And incidently, there is nothing wrong with either the health care being delivered in this country or in availability of the health insurance. If there is a problem in anything, it would be in the education system that allows so many to graduate (high school) without a marketable skill or trade that would allow them enough money to purchase their own health insurance. Mr. Obama and company are acting much like Hitler in blaming those who make a profit for the ills of the country. Hitler blamed the Jews and Socialists and Obama blames insurance companies, doctors and capitalists. They are treating the symptoms, not the cause.
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March 26th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
maybe Nancy can trade in her 757 for a Concorde?
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March 26th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
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Why are you spamming this site with unrelated drivel? Your abuse has been reported.
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