Tim H.

Cash for Clunkers: Short-Term Gain = Long-Term Pain

You are sooo freaking WRONG. This attempt to portray Cash for clunkers as a bad idea is because it was thought up by the government who bailed out the auto industry. In a tough economic landscape the cash for clunkers has gotten cars off road people were holding onto, helped auto dealerships and industry, helped the environment and helped the AD/media industry with advertising. I know a guy turned in an old truck got a new Ford Focus, This program has been successful with mostly the middleclass. So it's no wonder the upper incomes would look on with disdain at the program. People will work on their old cars until given a bargain to get rid of them. I find it amusing the attempted backlash on this program. It's okay to bail out the banks but for some reason it's not okay to try and save a manufacturing base that helped this country win world war 2. The anti-clunker sentiment is an attempt to to deny the fact that a goverment stimulus plan actually is working. Partly due to fact that since government owns part of auto industry and this program is helping said auto industry. The negative sentiment is actually pure politics because said sentiment is against government interfering in private industry. There is nothing wrong with this cash for clunkers program other than from a pure political ideology viewpoint.