By: Dan Clements August 24, 2009
Almost 650,000 clunkers were removed from America’s highways and byways in what the Obama administration is touting as a resounding success. The final price tag will be around 2.9 billion dollars, give or take a million. And how did America benefit from this? Well let’s take a look and see.
Charities across America who relied on people to donate there clunkers for a tax deduction are hurting for cash that would have been generated from the sales of those clunkers at auction. 650,000 clunkers would have gone along way in funding these charities.
Used car lots are out about 650,000 cars. A lot of Americans rely on the use car market for their next car to get from point A to point B. An inexpensive used car could make the difference between getting to work and going hungry.
Auto repair shops are short 650,000 cars to work on. Clunkers need maintenance and auto mechanics need clunkers to maintain. It will be some time before more cars reach the status of clunker, so what are the auto mechanics going to work on in the mean time?
Auto parts store are short 650,000 cars to sell parts for. There are a lot of shade tree mechanics like me who do as much work on their own cars as we can to save a buck or two. Those shade tree mechanics and other non mechanics that traded their clunkers in won’t be visiting the auto parts store anytime soon.
Car dealers are in a credit crunch now, because our wonderful government is very slow in paying them the $4500 for each clunker they helped to take off the road. And a lot of the news cars bought were not from GM or Chrysler. They were from the other American auto makers and some foreign auto makers too!
The biggest looser in this whole mess was the American people! Capitalism took a big hit, and many American showed us all just how much they don’t mind being socialist! Isn’t legal plunder by the government a wonderful thing!
So was cash for clunkers a success? Only if you are bent on the total destruction of what America should be under the U. S. Constitution! Socialist world wide are praising the Obama administration for their work in this area. Socialist’s in America are thinking they are one step closer to a workers paradise. And they wonder why constitutionalists like me are upset at what is happening to our country!
We need to get back to the rule of law before it’s too late. And that means that we need to bring this rouge government back under the rule of law by any legal means necessary, or we won’t have any law left to live under!
Dan Clements is a member of the Constitution Party and the host of BACK TO BASIC a Christian/political internet talk show. You can listen to Dan live from 10am-12 noon EST. M-F at www.blogtalkradio.com/dan-clements and www.constitutionalwarrior.com
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