If you have no history or no experience on the capability of the federal government, and especially the Obama administration, to run things, all you need to do is look at what is happening with the Cash for Clunkers program.
Keep in mind that these are the same people who are trying to usurp 20% of the private sector of the US economy and control your and your family’s health care before your next haircut. Or to put it another way, before you even know what hit you.
Consumers are happy to take government rebates to buy new cars. Other than that, confusion reigned Friday. The fate of the $1 billion trade-in program was up in the air over concerns that it may have already burned through its funds less than a week after it was officially launched.
On Friday, the Obama administration said it was working with Congress to try to get more money and that Clunkers deal certificates would be honored through the weekend. {emphasis added}
Brian Benstock, president of Paragon Honda in Woodside, N.Y., said he had already purchased advertising in Friday’s newspapers and he had sent out 176,000 direct mail cards to owners of qualifying Clunkers in his area. “Can you imagine the position we were in last night? We had 176,000 missiles in the air and we’re hearing it’s cancelled.”
So the $1 billion dollar program that was supposed to go until November 1 has run out of money in the first week in July. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said that the Michigan, Ohio and Indiana congressional delegations are working on a $2 billion extension of Clunkers program. Right off of the money tree I suppose.
Are you beginning to feel like the American people are unwitting, if not unwilling, characters in a Laurel and Hardy cartoon?
link: Obama administration scrambles to avoid Cash for Clunkers suspension
Heard the card dealership on the Eastern Shore sold 50 cars and had input 2 applications for reimbursement in between the computer program crashing. He said it took hours to input the information for one application.
One reimbursement per car and a computer system that cannot handle the volume.
Oh yeah, he’s ready to take on a new health care system for the U.S. and it’s Mexican residents too.