With all the stimulus packages being handed out over the last few months, I\u2019m having trouble figuring out why unemployment is still nearly 10%, the deficit is ballooning, the national debt has risen to amounts that require scientists to invent new numbers to describe it, and the man in the street is mad enough to chew horseshoe nails.<\/p>\n
Cash for clunkers paid off the unions in August so well that the people who would have bought cars in September and October just moved it up a little. There won\u2019t be any year over year gain. Plus, a bunch of them bought Toyotas.\u00a0 That really helped the American auto industry.\u00a0 The only good thing I can see here is that they managed to remove a lot of Obama bumper stickers from the highways.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s do a little math on the wonders our tax dollars provided.\u00a0 Most of the cars traded in on the Cash for Clunkers scam averaged about 15 miles per gallon.\u00a0 If they got much more, they didn\u2019t qualify.\u00a0 At 12,000 miles per year they used 800 gallons of gas per year.\u00a0 The new cars averaged 25 miles per gallon, and at 12,000 miles per year, used 320 gallons per years of gas.\u00a0 This saved a whopping 460 gallons per year.\u00a0 If the claimed 700,000 cars were actually traded in and taken off the road, this added up to a savings of\u00a0 224 million gallons, or about 5 million barrels of oil.\u00a0 This is about \u00bc of one days consumption in the United states.\u00a0 At $75\/bbl this equates to $350 million.\u00a0 We spent 3 Billion dollars to save $350 million.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got ex wives that think that way\u2026\u00a0 With this money, they bought the votes of selected car dealerships and the unions.\u00a0 Out of your wallet, whether you got a new car or not.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve watched the network news, plus MSNBC, CNN and the rest, and read The New York Times, and Pravda enough to know how this administration thinks.\u00a0 I can help them out on their next boondoggle on the road to economic perdition.\u00a0 The administration just slapped a big tariff on Chinese tire makers.\u00a0 This was another sop to the unions.\u00a0 Apparently the Chinese have figure out how to pour rubber in a mold for less than $45.00 an hour.\u00a0 The major tire manufactures are looking to move to Viet Nam.\u00a0 The democrat party will never slap a tariff on those poor people, what with all the guilt they have over rooting up their country in the late unpleasantness. It won\u2019t really help the unions, but it sure will raise tire prices, and besides, it looks good, and we\u2019re doing something, RIGHT NOW.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve got a better idea.\u00a0 The administration should subsidize the switch-blade knife manufacturers.\u00a0 This pointless (oops, bad pun) industry could employ countless people at ridiculous wage, all thanks to Card-Check, and all members of the new Switchblade Knife & Crack Pipe Manufacturers International.\u00a0 Then, buy all the production, with taxpayers money, and use the knives to help the inner city \u2018youth of America\u2019.\u00a0 With a new knife, a small stipend, (you don\u2019t expect them to do this for free do ya?) and some basic instructions written in several languages in very small words, the Youth of America could go to slashing tires.\u00a0 Think of the demand this would create for the tire manufacturers.\u00a0 And tow trucks. And repair shops.\u00a0 Pretty soon we will have slashed our way to prosperity and incidentally, re-election.<\/p>\n
Once again I use the absurd to make a point:\u00a0 It ain\u2019t their money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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