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Harboring Doubts

8.4.09 @ 6:01AM

Off the Waterfront. The side effects of clunker cash. Obama on the range. The cooperative public option. Plus more.

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-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

TWO POINTS SCORED
Re: Greg Scandlen's My Two-Point Plan for Health Care:

Greg Scandlen states his two-point plan for health care:

1) Give the money back to the people

2) Get the hell out of the way.

Simple, concise, succinct, to the point.

By George, I think he's got it!
-- Jim Bjaloncik
Stow, Ohio

THE HAUNTED PAST
Re: Ryan L. Cole's The Reformer's Folly:

Excellent article. Thanks also for the reminder of the legacy of this onerous legislation.
-- Les Taylor

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Tenn Slim| 8.4.09 @ 7:42AM

Re Cash for clunkers.
Unintended consequence abound, for sure. Here, near the Big Muddy, the dealer are being VERY cautious, becasuse as of this writing, NO ACTUAL CASH transfers have been made. The Dealer are out on a very long limb and know it.
IF and WHEN the proces completes the detailed cycle and CASH actually starts flowing, then and only then can the program be considered.
Unintended consequences abound, but the BASIC PREMISE has yet to be fulfilled.
end
Semper Fi

Big J| 8.4.09 @ 9:00AM

A. C. Santore:

"I'm a conservative. I abhor the drunken sailor spending of the elite in Washington (with apologies to drunken sailors for that cruel comparison). I abhor the fact that the elite don't remember that they are there to serve the United States, and not their own self-interests. I admit that the feds have made a hash of administering the CARS program."

If one were to stop reading your letter there, one might actually believe you.

Unfortunately, I did not, and do not.

The CARS program consists of two things:

1) Redistribution of wealth. The federal government is ROBBING money from the private sector and putting it in the hands of a favored lobby group (which brings me to point two).

2) Payback to the UAW. If your assertion were true, why wouldn't the same benefit apply to Ford?

You have a lot to learn about conservatism.

Appleby| 8.4.09 @ 9:56AM

The real problem is that this foolish program does not encourage people to buy cars that they were not going to buy before. It merely shifts the time frame in which the people who were going to buy new cars will buy them...and get someone else's tax money as a bonus.

As soon as all the people who have bought the cars they want have completed their transactions, the market will go back to where it was before.

Michael L. Hauschild| 8.5.09 @ 6:12AM

Ain't gonna eat no government cheese. Well, the people have decided; top recipient of my tax dollar, Ford (bad) next four foreign (even worse). Will you dunces quit giving my money away?