Cash for Clunkers!!???

I have seen a video on some of these "clunkers" getting destroyed.

What a horrible waste! The car was much newer than anything I am driving and in better shape.

At least my car looks like a "clunker." The paint is peeling, it rattles and shakes, and some of the trim is damaged.

But, because it gets decent mpg, it doesn't qualify as a "clunker".

Meanwhile, some folks with "new" cars are taking them in and trashing a perfectly good car because someone else is helping them pay for their car.

Guess what?!? We the people are that someone who is helping pay!

So how many folks are going to get a new car, that I get to help pay for, when they had a perfectly sound car to begin with? You are welcome.

How many folks are now going to have a hard time finding an affordable used car for their growing famly or their college because the used cars were all scrapped instead of recirculating them through the system?

How many car dealers are going to be out of luck because there aren't used cars to sell and the folks who had a "clunker", and their clunker was so new they probably could have replaced the "clunker" on their own dime anyhow, now have a new car and don't need another one any time soon so nobody will be buying cars before very long?

Do these guys in Washington ever think about the consequences of what they are doing? Oh wait! To consider consequences they would have to read the thing first an know what they were getting into!