I Want Some Cash For My Clunker

August 10, 2009 by Jeremy.

I keep thinking to myself that this CARS Program as it is called now (really known as Cash for Clunkers) is just another absurd welfare program. I find myself thinking that because I know that’s exactly what it is.

Then I tell myself that I might as well get a piece of this pie. I mean someone is going to get it anyway. This is my chance to finally cash in on the system!

I drive a 2002 Ford Windstar and my second vehicle is a 1995 Ford Bronco. It leaves quite the carbon footprint. However that is not the “clunker” that I would like to have demolished (I love it too much for that).

My wife drives a 1995 Ford Thunderbird with over 200,000 miles on it. It still runs just fine but is a little rough around the edges any more with rust and fading paint taking over the car. We haven’t gotten our use out of time and time again. I told her that we are getting her a newer car next spring. Then this CforC deal comes around and I find myself thinking that I might as well take advantage of it. I just can’t see demolishing this useful vehicle though when it could be a good vehicle for someone who needs a cheap car. Because that’s what happens to these “clunkers” they get scrapped.

So as Stimulus goes this really doesn’t do much but move the date up in which we were going to buy a car. It seems like someone else on the Wall Street Journal website agrees with me: Cash From Clunkers Let’s have a $4,500 subsidy for everything.

So as it stands we have a personal stimulus on homes and vehicles so I I wonder what the next “logical” progression would be for this thought process? Maybe we should give a subsidy for everything. With this current thinking process that would just be Common Sense! That’s not the kind of Common Sense I want though, how about you?

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