Cash for Clunker Crybabies
Oh puh-leeze, the Cash for Clunker Crybabies have just about pushed me to the limits.
First, when the program had been operation for just ten days, an owner of 20 dealerships in the east was crying about how long it took to do the paperwork for Cash for Clunkers. He was bitchin’ because he had to pay a clerk (probably making $10 an hour) to sit in front of a computer for a few hours to submit the paperwork to collect $4,500 free money collected from you and me.
Now the paperwork is in the gummit’s hands, here’s the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) aka CFCC (Cash for Clunker Crybabies) are crying they aren’t getting their money quick enough.
The National Automobile Dealers Association estimates that dealers have hundreds— and in some cases thousands — of applications pending that are
“worth hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.”
Peter Kitzmiller, president of the 325-member Maryland Automobile Dealers Association said:
“It is ludicrous at this point, We’ve got deals that are just sitting there waiting to be reviewed. The customer is gone, the car is gone, and you don’t have your money.”
Damn Republicans. (And new car dealers are all Republicans.) They cry that something needs to be done to save the U.S. car business. Obama does something.
They cry that Obama is moving too fast on the stimulus.
They cry that the stimulus idea is bad for the economy. Cars fly out of the showrooms at record pace – after 18 months of gathering dust. Factories go on overtime to keep up with demand.
They cry that they aren’t getting their money fast enough. They want quicker turn-around. They want bigger goverment to handle the Cash for Clunkers program.
By the end of the week, up to 1,100 people will be working full time to process cash for clunker reimbursements.
They cry that government is getting too big.
How long would you sit (or pay someone to sit) in front of a computer to collect $4,500?
Damn Cash for Clunker Crybabies. They give money to McCain, cry that Obama got elected, line up at the public trough and then cry that the slop is too sour.
Let’s not forget the charities that are crying about C4C drying up donations. What a bunch of BS. New car sales were down. That dried up donations. Plus, most of those charity places are scams anyway!
.-= Keith Griffin´s last blog ..Breaking News: Cash for Clunkers Ending =-.
@Keith Griffin: I donated a car to charity once and it worked out great. I did it 10 years ago and the car is still putting around! I agree with the criticism that a LOT of serviceable cars are being destroyed.
.-= GoingLikeSixty´s last blog ..Cash for Clunker Crybabies =-.
I don’t see how trashing our old American cars that support the auto parts market (still a thriving business in America) and converting people into JAP cars is going to do any good. Haven’t we sent enough money overseas? Let’s cut the middle man out, and just write a 2 billion dollar check to the gooks.. Same damn thing.
@John Frank: still fighting that battle? There are no more Japanese cars or American cars. There are only cars. Here in the south, we are glad to make Mercedes, Toyota, Honda, Corvettes, etc. etc.
.-= GoingLikeSixty´s last blog ..Cash for Clunker Crybabies =-.
You really need your own show. You can team up with Steve Colbert on the Steve Colbert Report for a start (one of my favorites). Then maybe your own stint? “Going Like Sixty Live” on Comedy Central. Sounds good, huh? I like it!
And yeah, I agree. America’s full of cry babies these days. Or is it the media that just makes it appear that way?
.-= Kirk M´s last blog ..Reviving the Dead | Part II =-.
@Kirk: Wow, you must be physic or sumptin’.
Have a former Dr. Johnny Fever-like advisor I am consulting with.
The NADA speaks for a lot of dealers, and I’ve seen a lot of stories on the AP that are of a similar vein.
I guess they will be crying next Tuesday after the well runs dry.
.-= GoingLikeSixty´s last blog ..Cash for Clunker Crybabies =-.
Yeah, you never want to talk about your hometown on the air so what you do is come up with a make believe town (like “Lake Wobegone” from the “Prairie Home Companion”) and talk about that instead. You take real local events and embellish the crap out of them. This way people listening in can laugh at the parodies of themselves and the town they live in without having to get personal about it.
.-= Kirk M´s last blog ..Reviving the Dead | Part II =-.
Yes, but I have this very distinctive voice: Sylvester the Cat on Helium, and people would know me from that. I’m thinking I need a spy device that will change the pitch and tone of my voice.
Good…, as they say, all good things come to an end. Actually, this could be considered a BAD thing b/c it’s CRAZY, we are giving people money to live more vicariously and lavishly than before all this economical bust took place? What are we doing? Spoiling every single last American? Let’s learn to live in moderation, then we wouldn’t have so much debt…Well, the fish sticks from the head..so the head is the While House…right?
@JasonBradyut: Stinks? By everyone’s measure – everyone’s – the program was an astounding success!
If we can get the economy going on the backs of the ignorant, then what’s the harm. In a couple years all these new cars will be repo’d and on the lots again.
.-= GoingLikeSixty´s last blog ..What is it with Interstate Truckers? =-.
@John Frank
What do Jewish-American Princesses have to do with this? Or am I mistaken?
@Merry Joe K: bwahahaha. love it.
.-= GoingLikeSixty´s last blog ..Geeky Animated Gif Monday =-.
Well, I dont know about Rebpublicans but this conservatives says we should not be giving away money to the Welfare for Cars program. Let them all rot in hell. Obama is an idiot.
@Brion: let all those Republican car dealers rot in hell? Obama isn’t an idiot. He’s smart, you may not like his politics, but he’s not an idiot.
You though are a buffoon, your comment proves it.
.-= GoingLikeSixty´s last blog ..Barfing My Way Across the USA – Oak Alley Chapter =-.
I am not sure how these cash for clunker program benefits for people that have chosen buying fuel efficient cars at the beginning. Those people who drove gas eater cars or old junk got the biggest gain for this. So does that say everyone should not buy fuel efficient cars at the beginning and let the Government help you buying you a new car? Just doesn’t sound fair to me especially tax money are being spent like this….
.-= Jerry @ Factory Service Manual´s last blog ..Auto Repair Manual =-.