…why not spend the money more wisely? If you’re going to spend my hard-earned taxpayer dollars anyway, spend them in a way that might actually make a difference:

Spend $2000 and buy used cars for eligible applicants. (i.e. single parents.) Give them a $500 voucher for car insurance that can be used at any car insurance company, and a $400 gas card that can be used at any gas station. (And by “any” we do mean “any”.) Pay for their vehicle registration for 2 years (about $100.)

This would then give the same number of people — 222,222 — a vehicle that can get them to a job, to the grocery store, and let them drive their kids to the doctor’s office. It’s also $333,334,000 cheaper than the $1,000,000,000 the government is spending on Cash For Clunkers.  You could lower our debt responsibility (and thus, the amount of money we owe to China) by that amount, or, if you’re tied to the nice round number of $1,000,000,000 you can provide an extra 111,111 people with transportation.

Granted, this means fewer people riding public transportation, which is why the self-proclaimed Kings and Nobles in Washington D.C. would never do such a thing. After all, if everyone has a car, no one needs to ride busses, subways, and the choo choo trains they’re so in love with. And it would also mean more of those evil carbon emissions. So rather than give people cars which might actually improve the quality of their life, let’s blow a billion dollars (now raised to 3 billion dollars) on a program that will remove working, running cars from the used car market, so there are fewer used cars in circulation, so the lower-income people won’t be able to get a car, thus making them more dependent upon the government.

After all, that is the plan. As we have reported before, the Obama administration understands the free market system and trickle-down economics. It knows that trickle-down economics works. And it is the philosophy of this administration to use the free market system against itself. It is the plan outlined in Gene Sperling’s book, The Pro-Growth Progressive: how to use market forces to achieve political goals. Let us not forget: Gene Sperling is an advisor to Treasury Secretary (and tax cheat) Timothy Geithner. And Gene Sperling was the one-time boss of Brian Deese, the 31-year-old nobody who was put in charge of “reshaping” the U.S. auto industry. Coincidence? Hardly.

Now, we believe that giving a hand up to low-income people by providing them with private transportation would be better than giving a hand-out to middle- and upper-class people who can afford to buy a new car.

But that just makes too much Common Sense.