{"id":357,"date":"2009-05-05T12:41:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T19:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:51","slug":"tuesday-may-5th-cash-for-clunkers-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/tuesday-may-5th-cash-for-clunkers-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash-For-Clunkers Bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like reading the news, but due to my impressively short attention span I can’t always make sense of the more complicated reports. For instance, during my taco lunch, I read the following headline: “Obama, law makers agree on cash for clunkers bill”<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nI put down my taco.<\/p>\n

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\n“Gosh” I thought “that headline makes it sound like the government is going to give cash incentives for people to turn in their fuel-inefficient cars for new ones.”\u00a0 But that couldn’t be, so I thought I’d try to read the whole article.<\/p>\n

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\nBefore I go on, I want to explain something to you people.\u00a0 I love Obama too, ok?\u00a0 I voted for him, I went to the rally at Grant Park on election night and held hands and swayed and cried with strangers.\u00a0 I felt like this country was going to be ok because we beat the freaks.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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\nBut I’m not amnesic about the American political system.\u00a0 I know that if Obama was truly a golden boy with nothing to hide, he wouldn’t have made it so high up in the Democratic party.\u00a0 Politicians aren’t created in a vacuum; they have to claw their way to the top like everyone else. <\/p>\n

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\nAll that being said, I’ve become incredibly cynical about this god damn stupid bail out.\u00a0 Mostly I don’t understand it, also I’ve been really bored lately and like having something reliable to bitch about, and finally I just don’t trust that in the end the rich people won’t still be wicked rich and regular people won’t still dream about being slutty enough to audition for the Rock of Love Bus.<\/p>\n

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\nI was able to read several paragraphs of the Cash For Clunkers article.\u00a0 It seems that the government is planning to offer $4500 vouchers for people to trade in their old cars for new fuel efficient cars. <\/p>\n

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\nAm I dumber than I thought, or is this a major set up up for unintended consequences?\u00a0 The plan is for people to basically throw their old cars in the garbage and go into further debt to buy shiny new ones?\u00a0 I like shiny things too, I just don’t understand what will happen if this plan works and we’re left with countless old cars?\u00a0 Do they go in a dumpster, or are they made into faux coral reefs? <\/p>\n

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\nLook I don’t claim to know very much, but I think it’s safe to say that throwing away your old stuff and buying new stuff isn’t going to help the environment, isn’t going to help your credit rating, and probably won’t do much to prop up what is obviously a drowning industry.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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\nI can’t offer any ideas, but I’ve got the lion’s share of swear words to describe this stimulus package f*ckery. Not that I really understand very much of it.\u00a0 But I really hope I’m wrong, and that Cash for Clunkers is a great idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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