[Tigers] clunker program

[steve wick]

The clunkers program wasn't about greener cars, or anything else except paying
off the auto unions for their support in the last election. The government
owns GM and Chrysler and wanted to keep the rank and file happy and employed,
on our dime, plain and simple. Just my opinion of course.

Steve (in N. Id.)
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Stephen Waybright<mailto:gswaybright at yahoo.com>
  To: Tigers at autox.team.net<mailto:Tigers at autox.team.net>
  Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:58 AM
  Subject: Re: [Tigers] clunker program


  It's too bad the CARS program didn't allow the option for lower income folks
with really bad clunkers (and who can't afford a used or new car even with the
deal) to do an even trade for one of the better program vehicles before it was
destroyed. I know CARS feels good to the folks who got to participate (many of
whom I know didn't need the HUGE subsidy and were planning to buy a car
anyhow) and it plays well in the press, but I see it as a grossly inefficient
and largely ineffective program. It ultimately padded dealer margins more than
anything. I would have liked to see something like payroll incentives for
companies that rehired people they had laid off, though my judgment on that
may be blurred since I joined the ranks of the recently unemployed in July.

  "Hoping to find my next tech-product exec position before I have to sell my
Tiger",
  Stephen Waybright

  --- On Sat, 9/5/09, mike schreiner
<mikeflbmer at yahoo.com<mailto:mikeflbmer at yahoo.com>> wrote:

  > From: mike schreiner <mikeflbmer at yahoo.com<mailto:mikeflbmer at yahoo.com>>
  > Subject: [Tigers] clunker program
  > To: Tigers at autox.team.net<mailto:Tigers at autox.team.net>
  > Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009, 9:03 AM
  > Yes, I saw the same here at our local
  > u-Pull-it...Total waste of good cars and our Tax
  > Dollars....Further proof that Liberalism is a mental
  > disorder!
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