{"id":12497,"date":"2009-08-03T10:18:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T10:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/03\/cash-for-clunkers\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T10:18:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T10:18:54","slug":"cash-for-clunkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/03\/cash-for-clunkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash For Clunkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The lunkheads of the Left really outdid themselves when they dreamed up this new wealth redistribution scheme.&#0160; An acquaintance of mine told me of his son who turned in a 1989 Ford pickup with over 200, 000 miles on the odometer, a&#0160; vehicle worth $50 according to my friend, a former mechanic, and received $4,500 of taxpayers&#39; money, not to mention a dealer rebate on the purchase of a new car.&#0160; Nice deal, eh?&#0160; Our ever-expanding socialist government brokers a transaction in which some of us get to steal from the rest of us.&#0160; It is crazy both morally and economically.&#0160; But the people will lap it up along with <em>panem et circenses<\/em>, &#39;free&#39; health care, and what all else.&#0160; They will lap it up until there is nothing more to lap up and the republic goes the way of ancient Rome.&#0160; For more on this depressing topic, take a gander at Michael Barone&#39;s <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/Cash-for-Clunkers-not-the-first-time-52197607.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Cash for Clunkers: Not the First Time.<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">&#0160; Something similar was tried in my beautiful State of Arizona.&#0160; I think of poor Barry Goldwater, rolling around in his grave.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lunkheads of the Left really outdid themselves when they dreamed up this new wealth redistribution scheme.&#0160; An acquaintance of mine told me of his son who turned in a 1989 Ford pickup with over 200, 000 miles on the odometer, a&#0160; vehicle worth $50 according to my friend, a former mechanic, and received $4,500 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/03\/cash-for-clunkers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cash For Clunkers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}