| The new Cash for Clunkers plan is one of the | | | | Supposedly, the qualifying vehicles under the Cash |
| many plans proposed by President Obama who | | | | for Clunkers plan have undergone and passed all |
| intends on transforming us into shrewd students | | | | safety tests. I wonder, although, have they |
| and rewarding us for compliance. The notion that | | | | considered the "getting plummeted by an SUV or |
| the government is giving away $4500 for a new, | | | | Mack truck test"? |
| qualifying vehicle is, in all actuality, opposed by as | | | | Putting safety issues aside, we've got to think |
| many as 54% of Americans who see the larger | | | | about the economic situation of most Americans. |
| implications. | | | | We've nearly got a 10% unemployment rate in |
| According to a recent Rasmussen poll, only 35% | | | | this country, and Americans have used and |
| of Americans support the Cash for Clunkers plan. | | | | abused credit to no end. And on top of this, the |
| That's only about 1/3 of our citizens, and higher | | | | government introduces the Cash for Clunkers |
| remarks were given by government employees. | | | | plan, which entices Americans to go apply for |
| That number is practically equal to stern | | | | even more credit, despite their current, economic |
| democrats, or perhaps the future number of | | | | situation. If we comply, we will, after all, gratify |
| government employees. This is social manipulation | | | | Mother Nature and even delight the |
| at its best. The Cash for Clunker plan attempts to | | | | environmentalists. |
| force Americans to buy new vehicles, both | | | | The worst part of the plan lies in the fact that it |
| foreign and domestic, that are smaller, lighter, and | | | | relies on a deficit, giving money to an elite few, |
| more fuel efficient. However, that's not what | | | | who can, indeed, buy a vehicle right now, and |
| Americans have traditionally bought, and many | | | | future generations are left with the responsibility |
| Americans feel that these vehicles are cramped | | | | of paying back the gigantic debt. In all honesty, |
| and hazardous. | | | | the Cash for Clunkers plan does not benefit |
| I often ponder how far we are willing to go to | | | | Americans, unless you buy into the fact that |
| solve a problem that we're not sure exists in the | | | | selling more fuel efficient vehicles will clean up the |
| first place. Obama's environmental fundamentalists | | | | environment. It literally takes money out of |
| would argue that we are a hazard to our own | | | | taxpayers' pockets and throws it back into the |
| environment, and they'd probably go far as to | | | | pockets of a select few who are able to rush out |
| say that the world must survive even if you or | | | | and buy a new car. |
| your family does not. | | | | |