Two things happened instantly after I posted my life-altering expose on the disaster that the Cash for Clunker program is.
- Unwittingly, I have teamed up with the Greens and the Washington Post simultaneously. Gwen Ottinger has a different reason for not giving Cash for Clunkers $2 billion RIGHT NOW: First, even when new cars and appliances are more efficient than the ones they replace, the act of replacing them entails environmental costs not accounted for in the stimulus programs. And, By assuming that only new products can be environmentally friendly, these policies lead us to discount the environmental gains that could be made through well-established and low-tech means, such as smaller refrigerators. They also reinforce the idea that all products, even “durable goods,” quickly become obsolete — a notion that leads to overwhelming amounts of environment-despoiling waste.
- Congress, seeing my advice that the program is economically a disaster, along with Gwen telling them all consumption is an ecological disaster, passed the additional funding.
- Thirdly, fresh on the announcement from John Dingell that “”it ( Cash for Clunkers ) is a sign that not only the program works … but it’s … providing a meaningful jolt to our economic recovery efforts,” US durable goods orders for June exceded expectations. They would have been higher except one category drug them back some, automobiles.
That’s probably because those automobiles were made in Japan, South Korea, China, etc.. Those just don’t do the US economy a whole lot of good. Dingell, use some god given sense and put a requirement on the Cash for Clunkers program that the car be at least 50% manufactured in the United States. Let the WTO worry about the rest of the world.
However, Gwen should feel better knowing that all this consumption will be built in countries that for the most part have destroyed their environment much moreso than we have ours and don’t give a rat’s ass about destroying what’s left. And, the people left in the United States won’t be able to afford a whole lot of consumption in the future. That should thwart that pesky manufacturing problem the rest of the world has to deal with.
Do we really live in a world where college educated people come out of school fully believing the concept that man can surive without consumption?
I think I have an idea where the root of the problem might lie.
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