The author incorrectly assumes the consequences are unitended.
Just a few weeks a guy said that very thing to me.
I stopped to help him start his car. He had just bought it 3 days before, and it was dead on side of the road.
He said because of the Cash for Clunkers all he could afford was a pile of junk.
He said he was trying to keep working and not go on welfare but it was getting too expensive for him to work. There wasn't anything left to live on.
There was one black voter that had no intention of voting for Zippo again.