Cash For Perfectly Good Cars

This is turning into a real political rant-fest around here. Now you get to read all about my feelings on the Cash for Clunkers program.

I think it's horrible killing all those perfectly good cars. There was nothing wrong with most of them. The people who could afford to go out and buy a new car, even with the rebate, weren't driving piece of shit cars. And how much better did the gas mileage have to be? 3 or4 gallons or something? How are the dealers supposed to know what gas mileage your car gets? You could have a car you hate that gets 40 miles a gallon. Are you going to tell the salesman that?

You betcha.

What they should have done, if they had bothered to ask my opinion, was take all these 'Clunkers' and give them away to poor people. If you made less than $40,000 or $30,000 you would get a coupon you could take in to the used car lot and get a free car.

Everybody's happy.