You can have my clunker when you pry it from my cold, dead hands
Noble — Tue, 08/04/2009 - 10:42
Reading the blogosphere, I think I must be the only person out there that thinks this "Cash for Clunkers" is not a good program, and not even a good deal for the consumer in most cases. Most of the people I've seen who oppose "Cash for Clunkers" seem to oppose it not on the grounds that it's a bad deal, but that it smells too much like a handout.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, is going to rope me into being a debtor to Big Auto. I buy as much car as I can afford, period. On one hand, I'm glad to see that mere mortals are getting a piece of the action during this round of auto company bailouts. On the other hand, let's not fool ourselves into thinking this is anything more than another round of auto company bailouts.
Will "Cash for Clunkers" help the environment? Possible, but debatable. Let's not forget that on average roughly 10-12% of all the hydrocarbon energy that a car will use in its life goes into manufacturing the car. This doesn't include the overhead of building and maintaining the factories the cars are made in, transporting them to your local dealership, and so on.
Also, the newer and more computerized your car, the less likely you're going to be able to fix it on your own. Not that I can fix a damn thing on my car anyway.
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. … We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. … In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons … who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
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Paul M. Peterson (not verified) — Tue, 08/11/2009 - 08:44Reading about what "cash for
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