Posted on 08/02/2009 5:03:41 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
“$12,000, per student, per year: How much does a gallon of Glidden cost?”
And how much does it cost to hold a paint your school day for the students & teachers?
It actually got people into showrooms and buying cars; people have to be able to afford a loan or write a check to buy a new car, so it's not like this is another hand-out to non tax-payers; and it has only cost a few billion and produced sales revenue, sales tax revenue, and business activity. No wonder career elitist politicians don't like it.
Good interview with Mike Pence. Solid conservative. Talked about a constituent in Indiana (who’d just lost his job) that thanked him last year for his vote against the bailouts. He told Pence that he can get another job, but he can’t get another country. Good point!
I had a friend - 2nd grade teacher who had to buy the paint and spend her summer painting her room because her principal was not in the ‘right’ group for the administration.
That answer by Summers was very telling. He makes the argument that teacher jobs are being saved with the Stimulus and then follows that up with the imaginary paint chips falling off the school walls. Stimulus for teachers no stimulus for painters and paint manufacturers.
2. Give the former and once again hyper-active kids paint brushes: The whole school get painted in an hour!
What it is is a transfer of cash from lower-income Americans who depend upon having modestly-priced used cars available to purchase and drive to higher-income Americans who can use such a subsidy to trade in a perfectly fine used car for a new one, as well, of course, as a propping up of the auto unions and the supposed economic performance of Car Czar Obama. Were those higher-income Americans not so incentivized to buy a new car, their dollars would either be spent on something else in the economy or stored up as savings in a bank or elsewhere in what would provide capital for business expansion.
I don’t see a smidgeon or good or fairness in the program.
I like how the producer keeps showing Kristol’s facial expressions as Wan speaks.
Fox played a sound bite from a Republican Rep. on the Cash for Clunkers program. The dude said, “Maybe we should make a Cash for Cluckers” program and pay people to eat chickens.”
LOL.
Like most Gov’t programs this creates winners and losers. Why am I punished because I bought a high mileage car several years ago? Why are you rewarded because you bought a gas guzzler? Why do the Feds have the right to take $4,500 out of my wallet at the point of a gun and give it to someone else? How deserted are the auto showrooms going to be when this boondoggle ends? Where are the working poor going to find an affordable used car after the Feds destroy a million serviceable cars? Why is this Gov’t Charlie Foxtrot better than letting working Americans keep more of their hard earned dollars? How is the economy stimulated when the Feds suck a trillion dollars out of it? I have many more questions, but these will give you something to consider?
LOL. That was Paul Ryan, from Wisconsin.
I sense a Wan slapdown coming from Kristol.
I stepped out for a bit and, upon returning, I see that David Gregory has not, in fact, lost his tongue.
I wonder how it works. Does the wh call him and say “here’s how it’s going to go down on Sunday with Summers” or is it more subtle than that?
Please don’t tell me which one plays the sheep.
Oh lordy, here we go again with the segment on “What do the Republicans have to do”, like they care.
“Oh lordy, here we go again with the segment on “What do the Republicans have to do”, like they care.”
As if they didn’t already know. All they have to do is say NO. NO to everything Democrats propose that will lead to more Federal waste and lead to more government takeovers. They’re in the minority now and can no longer advance their proposals so media shut up and wise up.
Another handout to the auto unions is what you mean.
With the job market so precarious I fail to see how people taking on an auto loan is such a great idea.
Since many of the so called ‘buyers’ are putting none of their own money into the purchase I can just see them walking away from their auto loans as they walked from their mortgages.
Interventin in the ‘free market’ is not a good idea I fail to understand why you love this handout so much.
So what’s Ryan’s next political step? Does he stay in Congress? Would he have a chance challenging Feingold? Governor Doyle?
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