Poor and minorities don’t give to presidential campaigns, unions do.

This is not an unintended consequence. Democrats don’t care if poor urban minorities have cars. In fact, they would prefer that they be forced to use government-subsidized public transit, thereby putting one more area of their life in the “dependent-on-government” category. This provides just one more reason to lock them into voting Democrat (“Republicans are going to cut funding for vital public transportation services”)

Democrats wants everybody to ditch gasoline fueled cars in favor of the electric or hybrid version….

There is another related effect of Cash for Clunkers. Not only did it take out a huge number of useable low cost vehicles it also removed from existence MILLIONS of perfectly good used parts.

The same people who need inexpensive “clunkers” also need inexpensive parts to keep them going. Thanks to Obama, low income Americans, the ones Democrats supposedly have to protect from those evil Republicans, have been hit by a double-whammy in the transportation budget.

Who could’ve thunk that the markets would be all screwed up by just a little government intervention here, a little government intervention there. It give a whole new meaning to the GISystem.

or incredibly obtuse and useless. Either way, they need to be in the minority beginning next year. We can keep just a few of them around to poke fun at and irritate.

that I can’t find anywhere. I’d love to know how many people traded a car that was paid for in on a car that they have payments for and defaulted on their new car loan.

I thought this program was a set up for huge problems for tons of people from the beginning, and I’m still pretty sure I was right, but I don’t have access to automotive financing numbers.

What better way to remove loads of “polluting gas guzzlers” than to promote a program that takes millions of cars off the road… considering a majority of vehicles that were taken off were “traded” for vehicles with only had a 1-3 mpg improvement. Not to mention they had perfectly usable parts, yet they were forced to have their engines locked/seized up, and crushed.
If they would have just taken those little bits of the “CFC” out, those parts could have flooded the market and actually helped the economy, not hurt it. All they would have had to do was state the vehicle can be salvaged for parts, but not sold as a whole.
Instead in this second Depression, they keep finding ways to make it worse, not better.

If you look at the vehicles traded in, most of them were in the 5-10 year old range, still perfectly sound mechanically, and traded in by people that are a little tight on money but could still afford the car payment after the CFC trade in value (or willing to go further into debt). The target vehicles, those with 100,000 or more miles, those that get less than 15 mpg and typically sell for less than $3000 used, were the ones that are still on the road today. The people that drive them do so because even after that CFC trade in value, they still cannot afford payments since that program was only available for a brand new current model year car.

If they had options for a cheap used car? Nah, Obama decided cars are better sent to the crusher. Obama says ride your bikes.