Some guy named Dave Johnson over at Huff the Magic PuffPo aims a tired, intellectually flaccid finger at the eye of conservatives who are criticizing the Cash for Clunkers program.
Government can work, and the "Cash for Clunkers" program proved it. So, naturally, conservatives have to hate on it. The "Cash for Clunkers" turned out to be one of the most successful government programs in some time.This was my favorite part:
What could be wrong with that?Yeah, we conservatives just love toxic rivers--makes the fishing so much better! And I guess he hasn't visited opensecrets.org recently, or he would know that even the hated pharmaceuticals industry gives more to the Dems than the Repubs. Can't let the facts get in the way of good lefty rant...
Well, if you are a conservative, plenty is wrong with that. First of all, it makes government look good -- and conservatives just hate government. Government is those people who get in the way and tell companies they can't pour toxins into our rivers. Government is those people who show up and ask big companies to share what they make -- after building the roads and courts and schools that enabled them to do so well. That goes against everything conservatives stand for: dirty rivers, big corporations doing and taking anything they want for free, etc.
Here's my comment to his post, which I'm surprised made it through the censors:
A program that gives money away is a success. And you're surprised?I only added the last part in to placate the censors. What I really mean to say is, if Bush and Obama wanted to stimulate the economy they would have drilled everywhere, built new refineries and new nuclear power plants, and given corporations a one-time good deal tax saving so they could repatriate the hundreds of billions of dollars they have sitting overseas.
Let's go one better. Let's break every window in the country to stimulate glass manufacturers and construction business. We could kick off a really big construction boom by burning all our houses down.
Why not cash for refrigerators? Why does the car industry get subsidized but not home appliances?
The point here is that programs like this produce no net gain to the economy.
And don't start with the whole "helping people" trope. If Bush, and Obama in continuation, really wanted to help people they would have given all that government cash directly to the taxpayer instead of favoring businesses and Wall Street with it.
That probably would have produced overload for the puffers...
HuffPo - Dave Johnson
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Nuclear power, drilling all over the place, all good ideas. May I ask what other than energy created in the most dangerous and environmentally degrading ways could actually stimulate the economy?
We have the oil sand here. We destroy loads of land to seperate the oil from the sand in an expensive (not relative to the profits we sell the oil to you guys for) and environmentally devastating manner in Alberta.
We should continue. There is nothing wrong with that?
I mean, I don't care if you're a conspiracy theorist when it comes to gw, but come on! You're just taking this shit right out of your ass and calling it logic.
That a$&hole breaks any one of my windows he's going to find a blazing AK-47 poking back through it, picking off his feet, then his hands, then his shins, then his forearms, then his kneecaps, then his elbows...you get the picture. (Yeah, HuffPo BlowJo, I learned this in the Army.)
Try this, butthead: A government program that can't even sustain itself after one week, that doesn't have the computer system to handle any amount of hits, that continuously changes the parameters of what constitutes a "clunker" and an effective new car in its place, couldn't possibly be called a success.
Unless of course you call the Titanic's maiden voyage a success.
Dumba#%.
Operations in Alaska and here in Colorado have proven that energy extraction can coexist with a beautiful, clean environment.
If somebody is tearing the land up to do it, they're not doing it right.
I love the environment. It's where I go to kill those tasty animals!
Dr. Dave: You gave me an idea. I say we have a cash for guns program. The government gives me money and I go buy guns with it!
You guys really are rednecks... and proud of it.
Yeeee Haw!
and
Yahoooooooo!
Kill it and grill it!
Get some!
I heard somebody said REDNECK. Praggie boy did you miss me? I am glad a program cash for clunkers is a success. One it lessens maybe demand on Canada's oil and maybe stop import of Canada's sorry ass health care systm. The us congress has spend more freakin money.
As far my guns-FROM THESE COLDS HANDS!!!! Hi Canada boy figure out where that come from!!! Redneck Ron
Hey Ron, ain't seen ya around much since you got a job. Goodbye to sitting around in your underwear all day scratching yourself and surfing the Internet...
... Wait? If you got a government job you can still do that!
You forgot sniff my finger
Redneck is a euthamism and the socially acceptable categorization of white supremacists.
I work outside all day landscaping, digging trenches, etc... Can I be a Red Neck? No, because I have brown skin and when the back of my neck burn it goes to dark brown.
Only white people are able to be Red Necks. They drive cars with confederate flags on their roof and if they weren't so pussy they'd be shooting niggers too.
Fuck you Ron. I gave you my address. I'd love for you to come over and knock on my door. I would wail the shit out of you.
You God Damn Red Necks have the upper hand on us immigrants and we still manage to be more successful than you and hire you to work for us.
You god damn white trash useless piece of trash. Come up here! I'm fucking druling. I'd love to make you look like a hockey player.
In case you missed anything or you're so illiterate you can't read all those big word...
FUCK YOU YOU NEO-NAZI BASTARD
Guns don't kill people Ron, I have and I will. I'm not a Christian either. I can kill people based on utility. To stop you from beating up some nigger, I have every right to take your life and I will.
You know what, give me our address. I know you won't come up here, but let me meet you down there.
OK, CP, that's enough posturing.
We know you're just as tough as the big boys...
Sounds like you've been sniffing the Anti-American liberal glue again. You need to read Thomas Sowell's "Black Rednecks and White Liberals"
Unlike you, Dr. Sowell is a respected academic who is actually qualified to treat such subjects.
Get out of your little box. Free your mind and read something other than dead Wagner crushes and liberal propaganda.
How can I literally be a red-neck. I would have to get a bad sunburn.
For you, you'd have to walk down the street on a sunny day.
If you know anything about pragmatism and the philosophy I like you'll know that it is working class. Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Dewey, Henry Thoreau etc... They all take pride is working with their hands. Whitman thought that every person should build the house they live in with their hands.
Blacks literally can't be red-necks. Sowell may be able to de-racist the word, but the root are stringently racist. It's not afterall a modern word. It was around since slavery.
Why do you think all the blue collar comedians are white?
Also, I'm waiting to hear from that Ron bitch.
See, you are still speaking from what you read. Now calling me a bitch is what I was looking for-passion.
Yah Ron, I read. You should watch "The Trailer Park Boys." Ricky demeans the opinions of others by saying, "everything I say might not be all smart and stuff, and I might not have my grade 10, but at least I don't steal everything from books. I self-learned myself. How about you Leahey? No, everything you leanred you stole from a book."
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