Cash for Clunkers – Taxpayers paid $24,000 per car!

A total of 690,000 new vehicles were sold under the Cash for Clunkers program last summer, but only 125,000 of those were vehicles that would not have been sold anyway, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the automotive Web site Edmunds.com.

The average rebate was $4,000. But the overwhelming majority of sales would have taken place anyway at some time in the last half of 2009, according to Edmunds.com. That means the government ended up spending about $24,000 each for those 125,000 additional vehicle sales.

Read the entire article at CNN.com
http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/28/autos/clunkers_analysis/index.htm

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“Dismantling America, Part 2″ – by Thomas Sowell

Many years ago, at a certain academic institution, there was an experimental program that the faculty had to vote on as to whether or not it should be made permanent.

I rose at the faculty meeting to say that I knew practically nothing about whether the program was good or bad, and that the information that had been supplied to us was too vague for us to have any basis for voting, one way or the other. My suggestion was that we get more concrete information before having a vote.

The director of that program rose immediately and responded indignantly and sarcastically to what I had just said– and the faculty gave him a standing ovation.

After the faculty meeting was over, I told a colleague that I was stunned and baffled by the faculty’s fierce response to my simply saying that we needed more information before voting.

“Tom, you don’t understand,” he said. “Those people need to believe in that man. They have invested so much hope and trust in him that they cannot let you stir up any doubts.”

Read complete article at Townhall.com http://bit.ly/1IIlES

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“Dismantling America” – by Thomas Sowell

Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many “czars” appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?

Did you think that another “czar” would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers– that is, to create a situation where some newspapers’ survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?

Read full article at Townhall.com http://bit.ly/rFopn

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White House boasts: We ‘control’ news media

Communications chief offers shocking confession to foreign government.

Read this article at WorldNews Daily. 

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113347

Anita Dunn has opened her mouth again.  While they declare “war” on FoxNews, she admits they making” the news media cover certain issues while rarely anything to the press unless it was “controlled”

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Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty

Obama Will Sign Over Sovereignty to World Government in December

This is it.  American Freedom is coming to an end.  We are being forced to pay our “Carbon Debt” by giving up our sovereignty to the world.  If it isn’t too late, you might want to sign in at  http://globalclimatescam.com sign the petition and send letters to your Senators and Representatives.  Otherwise, we will have to answer to our children and our grandchildren when they ask, “where were you when they sold out America?”

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From the speech by Lord Monckton:

“So I end by saying to you the words that Winston Churchill addressed to your president in the darkest hour before the dawn of freedom in the Second World War. He quoted from your great poet Longfellow:

Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!”

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