Move To Washington, D.C. – Money Grows On Trees And Other Stuff

Have you heard? The great “Cash for Clunkers” program was such a success, the House voted to put another $2 billion of your tax money into the coffers to give rebates back to anyone interested in buying a different car.

I am considering a move to Washington, D.C. because evidently money grows on trees down there. My biggest fear though is that there is something in the water that makes you incredibly stupid.

Call it a scam, call it a shell game, call it what you wish. Some would even say it is unconstitutional, at least that’s what the courts said when FDR tried slaughtering pigs and burning cotton.

I thought I had posted the story on this blog about the guy who walks into a hotel and sets a hundred dollar bill on the counter and asks to see a room. While he is looking at the room, someone takes the $100 and pays a debt, which in turn pays another debt, etc., etc., etc., until eventually the $100 bill ends up back at the hotel lobby desk by a hooker who pays her room tab. This is the essence of the “Cash for Clunkers” program. (No! It isn’t about prostitution. Stay with me on this!)

First of all, was I fast asleep on this one? I never heard anything in this Obama stimulus scam that had anything to do with giving people up to $4,500 in rebate money if they trade in their old cars and buy new ones. What a joke!

The car industry, which is poorly run and based upon every American owning at least 5 cars and having a million dollars in debt, gets to sell some of its cars because government (your tax dollars) are used to create the rebate. You trade in your old clunker and get up to $4,500 of my tax money. Then the Obama people can run around bragging about how he bailed out the auto industry because sales are up.

But let’s not forget. This is tax payer money he is using to transfer through a line of debtors, similar to the $100 con job and eventually ends up as seemingly free money to some guy who was planning to buy a car anyway……..or not.

This stimulus con job of Obama’s was supposed to last into the fall but after one week, all the money is gone. So, as we have all come to expect, Congress just adds more money to the game and they walk away thinking they have helped. Just call me Goober!

Well, fools! Who is going to have to pay back the $4,500? We either have to pay it back in higher taxes or print more money to cover the give away putting us that much closer to hyper-inflation. Either way it’s a piss poor deal and you and I are being screwed.

Jump in your car and head on down to Washington, D.C. Before you go, you might want to consider trading in your “clunker” and buying a new Obamamobile. When you get to Washington though, find that money tree fast and get out of town. Above all else, don’t drink the water!

Tom Remington