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May 12, 2009

Reid wants fast action on 'cash for clunkers'

"Cash for Clunkers" may be headed for a fast congressional track.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he'd like to include the plan, where the government gives consumers financial incentives to scrap old gas guzzlers and buy new cars, as part of an emergency funding bill for the Iraq and Afghanistan war that the Senate is expected to consider next week.

"Cash-for-clunkers is really important," Reid told reporters. "Every country in the world is selling less cars than they did before except one country: Germany. And in Germany they have a program for cash-for-clunkers. We need to do the same."

But while he said he would "love" to include it in the emergency bill, "the problem is I can't figure out a way to do it procedurally ... so we're trying to figure out how to do it."

The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats offered their own version last week.Consumers could get vouchers of up to $4,500 to buy new cars to replace old gas-guzzlers.

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greyghost

Our representatives would like to con US ito buying the big three out of bankruptcy & bail them out?

Our representatives are responsible for every problem we have, trillions in debt, not one government agency is running out of the red, all agencies & policies are afilure costing US trillions as well.

If we did a cost analysis we would find America would have no debt if all of US had jobs that paid a living wage with health care & retirement instead of our representatives of millionaire status having sold US out through campaign fiannce. They promoted illegal immigration, busted unions, held down wages, buste dour health care, & then promoted free trade destroying our manufacturing while selling US out to China & every other country with more represnettaion than US.

Our representatives turned uS into a playground for the rich, are floating our tax $ around like bad notes in a bank making trillions, the same trillions we owe as a nation!

www.nextrevolution.net

You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a crooked as a dog's hind leg politician in DC. We didn't get to be trillions in debt as a nation through the same great management we accuse GM of having?

Gm is wrong to pay a living wage, health care, & retriement & they're only billions in debt. We the people are still paying the crooks who broke US a fine salary, provide health care, & rettirement & they still breaking US.

Why doesn't the media report US governmnet for the greatest scam the world has ever seen? We call it representation & it sucks the life out of US like a parasite.

I'm a little confused about McClatchy newspapers, report the drug trade in Afghanistan, no problem, but the Boise, ID Statesman, an affilate, won't report a story on a local dairy, sixth largest in the nation, for kickbacks in transportation, unsanitary warehouse, & transportation conditions? Report all kinds of food safety related stories, downwinders in Idaho, & give unsanitary dairy a pass in Idaho?

Pictures can be seen on www.nextrevolution.net all through FOIA, but the Statesman, while recently suggesting we as Americans should step up & do what is right, won't touch it. Contradicting? Talk teh talk but don't walk the walk?

The Statesman editorial board recently printed our view suggesting we as individuals not allow two drunks to urinate on a sleeping bum. Hoffman wrote an article suggesting we should report what we know if someone committing insurance fraud, & not par take in anything like it because it runs up the cost of insurance.

The Gov of Idaho, Otter recently tried to raise vehicle & fuel taxes to pay for roads. Otter wouldn't look into kickbacks in transportation in the highly subsidized dairy industry when I wrote him, like interim GOV Risch now a US Senator. Campaign finance isn't corruption?

The Statesman was in support of Otter raising our fuel taxes but like Otter wouldn't investigate kickbacks in transportation?

My boss at Darigold was leasing old semi trailers at $1,200 a month for years on end, trailers that could have been purchased for $5000 one time cost.

The Statesman did an article recently about an Idaho Tax Commission employee blowing the whistle because out of state corporations were let off the hook for millions in taxes. They hire accountants heavy into tax knowledge. Darigold licensed trucks in Oregon, cheaper I imagine while Otter tried to raise our individual vehicle tax 150%.

My question to Gov Otter, Idaho Statesman, Senatror Risch, & McClatchy papers is, since they are all about corruption in Iraq, why aren't they willing to investigate corruption here in the US?

Are tax cuts & incentives so lucrative that campaign contributors can lease semi trailers at $1,200 a month for years on end, trailers they could buy for a one time cost of $5000, they would lease rather than buy?

If the tax commission & legislators are either so imcompetent or beholden to campaign contributors, they would raise individual taxes while looking the other way when a corporation is let off the hook for millions, we are not being represented.

Darigold used my idea & leased a warehouse in Boise rather than Fruilan, ID saving hundreds if not thousands of $ a day, millions of $ in fact over the years yet I was fired. Interim Gov Risch did nothing & Gov Otter suggested the FDA & USDA do inpsections.

Why did I have to report, send pictures to the USDA to clean up transportation & warehousing that hadn't been for two years? The Statesman printed a story just today about the FDA, lags in food safety, audits.

Odd, the same paper won't investigate unsanitary transportation & warehousing the Gov suggest the FDA does inspections on?

There is a can of worms in Boise, ID & the people of Idaho are too foolish or scared to say or do anything. What about the rest of America? When your kid gets sick after you did nothing, who is really to blame?

Is McClatchy the kind of paper that would sit by & do nothing as well, like their affiliate, the Statesman in Boise?

It should be of interest that the dairy products, many private label were sold in McDonalds, Burger King, WINCO, Ridley's, Paul's, Safeway, COSTCO, & others.

At times as a driver I personally delivered milk one day, picked up what was turned back in as bad the next, & replaced with what might have been just as bad as the milk I was picking up. They re-ran milk several times before it made it to the customer sometimes.

Git milk? Three a day? Some pictures on www.nextrevolution.net are of a hog farm we used to dump milk that never did pass the re-run stage, several times. With swine flu all the news, it's kind of sad looking at a hog farm you would believe was in a third world country yet right here in Idaho. illegal immigrants shooting & butchering hogs right out there in the hog dust on a hot Idaho desert day. Pork, the other white meat.

illegal immgration isn't a problem either is it?

Tom in San Jose

The devil is in the details which are notably lacking in this idea. Who gets the old car? California has a similar program ($1,000) and you take the car to an authorized junt yard where it is crushed. What part does the "voucher" play in this? Do you go to any dealer, negotiate for the best price (not telling the dealer you will be using a voucher) and then use the voucher to take an additional $3,500/4,500 off the negotiated price?

I think that this is a great idea but needs a lot of work before it becomes a Bill and then Law.

Mike Bresina

All this would do is artificially bid up the price of cars, making it impossible for many to afford them legally. I've owned a dozen cars in my lifetime, and I haven't paid $4,500 TOTAL for them. I drive about 3,000 miles/year, so I'm not wasting any appreciable amount of fuel.

Borisjimbo calls this a no-brainer. I agree, there wasn't an ounce of thought put into it, just a desire to prop up the incompetent.

If this passes, look for auto theft to skyrocket. Since anti-theft devices make the old methods more difficult, expect strong-arm hijackings, often with the execution of the victim to delay reporting.

Derek

Sounds like a good plan, need to be doing somethingBeach   Wedding Favors

borisjimbo

Good, kill a couple birds with one stone. Get rid of a bunch of gas hogs, many of which are probably unsafe to drive anymore, provide jobs for US auto workers, boost this economy, help alleviate global warming. No brainer, which is probably why the conservative hard core will whine "socialism" or some other such nonsense.

stuwilbur

thanks, Reid-clown. get people in more debt, maybe they can pretend they're going to Vegas to win it all back, and more, too!!! this porker is proof that the Dems have lost their way

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