Cash For Clunkers

The lunkheads of the Left really outdid themselves when they dreamed up this new wealth redistribution scheme.  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  vehicle worth $50 according to my friend, a former mechanic, and received $4,500 of taxpayers' money, not to mention a dealer rebate on the purchase of a new car.  Nice deal, eh?  Our ever-expanding socialist government brokers a transaction in which some of us get to steal from the rest of us.  It is crazy both morally and economically.  But the people will lap it up along with panem et circenses, 'free' health care, and what all else.  They will lap it up until there is nothing more to lap up and the republic goes the way of ancient Rome.  For more on this depressing topic, take a gander at Michael Barone's Cash for Clunkers: Not the First Time.  Something similar was tried in my beautiful State of Arizona.  I think of poor Barry Goldwater, rolling around in his grave.