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Embarrassing clunkers

How about the house for clunkers? Is that OK?

"$8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers would be extended and expanded to include a $6,500 credit for people who have lived five years in their current residences."

I too drive a clunker! I refused to force other people to buy me a new vehicle in the recent taxpayer funded cash for clunker debacle. You may like your new vehicle but I know in my heart that I didn't cheat my neighbor. In the meantime, I will drive with a clear conscience knowing I am a real American! So, if you see me driving my 1972 Chevy down the freeway, at least say thanks would you? Its the least you can do for those of us who paid for your new car!

"By the way, I just read that each clunker turned in cost taxpayers $24,000 each."

Do NOT believe everything you read amigo.

Ya, and I bet you wish you could still buy leaded gas. Do me and the world a favor. Get rid of those two cars. The emissions can be upto 16 times that of a new car. Add to that the lack of airbags etc. You are driving a death trap.

Maybe we should put Obama on the list of "clunkers" that needs to be turned in. He is sure costing the taxpayers more than $24000 each.

Grab a pair. I'm proud of my so called 'clunker'. It does not clunk; it's been well maintained. It's safe, reliable, and I can repair it. If someone doesn't like it, I can give them some verbal travel advice.

Since the maximum payout on the clunker program was $4500, please explain where you got that $24,000 figure.

You are offended? My, my! Aren't we fragile? The program worked. Period. Get over it. By the way, this is another example of a topic that must be getting some attention from right-wing media as there are multiple letters on the issue. It is so easy to track when the sheep hear something from the likes of Beck and Hannity. Do none of you know anything on your own? Can you make no independent, well-informed decisions?

Karl, you're either way too sensitive about what others think or you're making some lame attempt at stirring up some controversy - either way your comments are laughable. I had no idea the cash for clunkers program had had such a huge cultural impact - enough to make people suddenly start laughing at what kind of car you drive - WOW! Come on, get real, your desparate attempt to discredit the Obama adminstration (and blame them for your embarasssment)is all too obvious.

Hey, "cash for clunkers" was a great deal for those that could afford to buy a new car. They got a new car and the rest of us got to subsidize it for them. Ya gotta love America. Well, maybe not...

So this is how the so called conservatives are going to get back power? Pathetic and unfunny is no way to go through life.

That's the typical mindset of those "on the hill" in that county.

I went to high school in that county and was laughed at for walking 5 blocks to school, rather than driving a Mercedes that daddy bought.

My advice to you is to forget 'em. Hypocrites like that aren't worth the paper their registration is printed on.

Great letter, and I enjoyed the humor. The Obamamaniacs can't quite figure out why anyone would be bothered by their fearless leaders clunker plan. Maybe we are giving the annointed one to much credit? I think this spending bill comes from the Congress. One of their problems is that when you are a lame halfwit, it becomes to easy to believe the Obama math. Kayser can't figure out how the supposed $4000 payment to dealers, or credit on a new car purchase, really cost the taxpayer $24000. To save you from having a total brain meltdown, lets just say that there is a whole lot more to the equation then you are being told about. What you see doesn't always add up. It is kind of like when Obama and his administration mathematically figured out the number of jobs they have "saved" with their stimulus plan. It's a kind of advanced cyber reality theory thing, that only works for leftists, and their media minions who hang on every word this Prez. says.

I believe that the assembly line workers that put the cars together, truckers that move them, the salesperson and the state that collected taxes benefited from the program.

If our health care system had a public option, you would be able to afford the mental health treatment required to deal with your inflated sense of self-worth.

Anonymous | 8:22 a.m in life, there are doers and whiners. I'm sure during FDR, there were conservatives who though Eisenhower was too inexperienced. He had never lead an army in war. These conservatives whiner on June 6th, that Normandy was a bad plan and we must stop.

Many a great plan has been foiled by people looking for a perfect plan. There is nothing that guaranties failure as having saboteurs creating dissension in the ranks.

Cash for clunkers wasn't a perfect plan. Doing nothing is no plan. Whining is so un-American.

A day doesn't pass that the propagandist on talk radio and Fox News aren't working toward their goal of American failure.

So you cant tell us where that number comes from so you give us this joke "lets just say that there is a whole lot more to the equation then you are being told about". Classic uninformed reich wing radio technique. Your masters would be so proud, that is if they gave a hoot about anything but their piles of money made off the backs of their foolish followers.

The problem with the program was that the real clunkers were not turned in. Thses were relatively new vehicles, not 15 - 25 year old ones that were not maintained, spewed smoke, burned oil, etc. As part of the program, they destroyed good, working engines, thus making it harder for those who cannot afford a new car to buy a good, used one. Also, the only ones who could do it were those who could already afford a new car, but didn't want one until we the taxpayers helped. Also, if these hybreds,or higher mileage cars are so good, why aren't they selling better. If things are really good, they eventually come down in price because more and more people buy them. This is not the case with the cars the deal promoted. Just like solar, wind power etc.
Their so good we still have to subsidise them.

Yep, Cindy, and for those folks living on a tight budget who did not have the money or need to "upgrade" their debt along with their transportation, the gov't gave them the additional whammy of making their cars worthless as 2nd-hand sellers or trade-ins. Across the board, the govt devalued their cars, and made life just possibly more difficult for them.

Right, the gov't is here to help. These jokers are only out to win a few votes, and while seducing a few ignorant believers in 'hope and change' into thinking their vote was worthwhile, more people are being hurt by this clumsy, shallow power-play.

"that is if they gave a hoot about anything but their piles of money made off the backs of their foolish followers."

OOOHHHH, doesn't that just burn you up? Your lies and your seething hate are really shining through. As for your question, here is your answer: 3 billion program dollars divided by the estimated 125,000 actual increase in CFC cars sales, by industry analysts, equals $24,000 per car.