Cash for Clunkers program ends on Monday
Further down on this blog there was a joke combining the government's performance on the Cash for Clunkers program with the proposed proto-nationalization of health care, aka ObamaCare. The joke was the you could trade in Grandma for cash thereby helping to alleviate future costs to the health care system.
Of course it was just a joke.
What is not funny is that even if that program was real and that simple and that if you brought in Grandma, picked up your $4,500, and then the government took her and humanely....um.....put her down, to use the veterinary phrasiology, the Cash for Clunkers fiasco has shown that they couldn't even do that right.
And we want these guys to have a seat at the table (along with veto power, mind you) beside you and your doctor for every discussion concerning your medical care?
I think not.
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Frankly I'd have no sympathy. I have an unflattering word for people who take money from government, even indirectly. My brother and I once owned some land (inherited, sort of) which was eligible for the CRP program. Where you sign papers agreeing not to grow anything on it, and the gummint gives you money. We sold it rather than take the money. (There was pressure to either take it or sell it and this was the lesser of the evils.)
In the early 80s I was hired to write software to do work-outs for real-estate deals which only worked with high marginal tax rates. When Reagan (heavenly chorus here) lowered them, those deals quit working for they were structured entirely for tax benefit instead of economic benefit. I lost no sleep over the people who were invested in them.
Howdja like to be a dealer or car manufacturer that ordered up a bunch of ads this week on the premise (promise?) that C for C would run through September? As The One said? And then you find out you stop at the close of business on Monday?