Maybe, but I’m not sure it’for everyone….

The engine is filled with a sodium salicate solution, which is a liquid below 200 degrees F. When the car engine is started this material turns into a glass like-material, rendering the engine permanently unuseable. Then the vehicles must be buried or otherwise destroyed. However, this solution has been reported to be a carcinogen which will then be able to enter the ground water. What kind of goofy program is this?

http://www.examiner.com/x-17827

Supporters of the Car Allowance Rebate System, the official name of the program, claim that a major component of the project is to reduce carbon emissions and to populate our roads with more fuel-efficient vehicles. No surprisingly, this program will not move us any closer to environmental sustainability as the number of new vehicles sold will ultimately be inconsequential compared to the number of cars and trucks on our roads. Although the president and congressional Democrats will market this program as an important step toward energy efficiency and environmental awareness, neither of these conditions will actually be realized. To qualify for the incentive, a consumer need only purchase a newer vehicle which is one mile per gallon more efficient than the trade-in. Other supporters of “cash for clunkers” assert that our economy needs government intervention to stave off an even greater downturn. Yet, despite what its proponents would like us to believe, this program does not produce anything. Conversely, “cash for clunkers” merely takes from one segment of the economy and transfers it to another. Everyone who takes advantage of this program does so by taking something from someone else.

Brian Mark Weber is a professor of United States History at American Military University and professor of English at Anne Arundel Community College. For more information, you are invited to visit http://www.brianmarkweber.com.

This is the kind of program China used for its stimulus and its GDP is roaring back while ours sits in the muck.

The Glen Beck/government invasion of privacy is a different and disturbing issue and it effects the car dealer and his computer system, not the individual. That is bad for car dealers directly and indirectly for the consumer because if the car dealer has consumer info in his computer, then the government has access to it. This is bad. This is the Obama/Bush government invasion of privacy run amok. I hope it drives Obama’s poll numbers down another 5 points. But the Cash for Clunkers I think is about the only good thing for us consumers/taxpayers happening today. And if its run poorly then make Obama take responsibility.

If a hotel chain started a cash incentive program for a year for people staying at their hotel they would have to budget the money. And there would have to be an ROI on that incentive program. Suppose the budget approved ran out after only a month, what do you think the career length of that manager who proposed that plan would be?

In the cash for clunkers, morons like Chuckie Schumer or Ed Markey prove that higher education is not an indicator of intelligence. If they canot remotely project what the budget for this should be how legitimate are their projections for healthcare reform? And, since we, as taxpayers, are doling out this money for clunkers, what do we get for that money, what is the ROI?

http://www.bernardjtaylor.com/

The context was abt treatment of LGB people after someone said something assholic to me in one of West’s classes, but I think it is appropriate here…