They said the dealers were supposed to be getting paid in 10 days, but they are either hearing nothing or getting rejected. Best one they showed (can’t find video of it at their site – it was the early morning show, not the Hemmer/Kelly one after it) a rejection notice that said the reason for rejection listed no reason given. Can you imagine that sort of thing in a TV commercials for government run health care?

In the meantime these dealers have fronted the cash to customers, sold the new cars, trashed the old cars, and now they are getting stiffed for the $4,500.

I believe another Fox piece on this (Bill Hemmer) said that the government was hiring 11,000 people just to work on this program, mainly dealing with all the paperwork. Again, a great candidate for health care commercials. They have a mountain of paper and still can’t figure out a simple rebate – would you trust them to make health care decisions for you?

Clearly, what we have with these recalcitrant NY auto dealers is a bunch of treasonous Unamericans, Or Unamerican traitors. I’m not sure how this is scored, but you know what I mean,

Of course there are problems with even the best run companies. But because of their nature, private companies can effectively respond to the unexpected problems that arise on a daily basis. A government run program, however, could never do this.

The appeals process with a private insurance company is also fairly quick and can respond to individual circumstances — unlike government bureaucracy that is bound by rules and regulations that cannot be waived.

So even though this is another failure, we should be happy because they came up with something. My response is, “Epic fail, and blow me.”

No way Hose say

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Cash for Clunkers = Government run healthcare, only the debacle will be bigger, and the tax payer money lost will be astronomical.

Trust me, I’m from the government — Who would ever do that?

The famous last words of none other than Barney Frank.

The 1,300+ laid-off workers that are getting rehired back by GM
to meet the ramped up production from cash-4-clunkers of an
extra 60000 cars might help put a little extra cash back into the
economy. Ford too… So maybe too early to declare it a POS.

Go read for yourself…

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE57H56R20090818

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aWBWRZeg9WVk

I don’t feel sorry for car dealers but I will make an exception in this case.

this program started with a Billion dollars? Now, because it’s such a success, the government decided it needed another $2B.
But wait, even though the government, or someone, blew right through the first Billion, no one has gotten paid? Gee, who could have foreseen that? Now, where did that pesky Billion go?
And, these people want to be in charge of healthcare? We’re just supposed to close our eyes, turn our heads and cough?

typical ad, but at the end they had a dis-claimer…from a very stern lawyer voice..

“Cash for clunkers is a government program and is subject to change without notice”

Awesome!!

The General Manager of the local Ford Dealer told me recently that the rules for the program run over 130 pages.*

He had a customer who came in with an old van, truly a gas guzzler, and who wanted to trade it for a Fusion Hybrid. He’d go from under 15 MPG to about 35 MPG. However, although both vehicles qualified individually for the program, they didn’t qualify if used in the same transaction. The two vehicles weren’t “similar enough.”

Happy ending, though. I believe the sale was still made without the government assistance. At least it was a happy ending for us taxpayers.

*The Constitution of the United States? Four pages when ratified.

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…umm, Japan’s economy, but still….

Move along, folks, no unintended consequences to see here.

all it was cash for united autoworkers

not by cash for clunkers, but TARP funds instead. Remember who they work for.

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I keep reading from the democrats how great it is/was a great idea, and I keep reading from everyone else ‘the benefit of the doubt’ from a moral standpoint.

It was, in the context of a 3 quarter trillion dollar stimulus, an economic trial balloon. It was one way for them to bounce economic ideas off of tax payers, with tax payer money, for the end idea of how best to control tax payers. Period.

…with school starting soon. Delays may have vets paying their own way through most of the semester.

This government is failing miserably at almost everything they touch. But they’re ready to tackle 10s of millions more people to the gov’t health care rolls that they can take months to years and years to complete claims for?

I’m not sure if even the people who are worried are seeing how bad things are getting when it comes to depending on current programs… let alone all of the miserable snafus being created recently.

It’s easier to joke about Cash for Clunkers. A lot harder when one looks at the disability claims backlog for veterans approaching a million… with wait times extending years upon years when they inevitably screw up the decision because quotas trump quality right now according to its own inspector general.

Just depressing.

In fact, it’s been the business model of the automobile industry from the beginning – you give them your hard-earned money, they give you a brand-new clunker.