Already by about 50 million, which is real money for anybody (except a Democratic legislator, of course). It’ll likely get worse:
The popular program is being blamed for hurting charities that rely on donations of cars to fund social programs.
Those charities say their donations have fallen up to 12-percent already since “Cash for Clunkers” was implemented.
They fear that as time goes on, their annual donations will drop 25-percent, which amounts to more than 100-million dollars.
See also Reuters. Below is a list of national charities thus affected (the link has a longer list of state/local ones) :
Air Force Aid Society, Inc.
American Amputee Foundation
American Autoimmune Related Diseases
American Brain Tumor Association
American Foundation for Aids Research
American Foundation for the Blind
American Macular Degeneration
American Parkinson Disease Assoc.
Armed Forces Veterans Homes Foundation
Army Emergency Relief
Assoc. for Frontotemporal Dementias
Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America
Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Autism Speaks
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
Brain Trauma Foundation, Inc.
Breast Cancer Recovery Foundation, Inc.
Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Inc.
Camp Fire USA
Cancer Care, Inc.
Cancer Research Institute
Carter Center, Inc.
Catholic Charities USA
Catholic Relief Services
Children International
Children’s Defense Fund
Children’s Health Fund
Children’s Tumor Foundation
Colon Cancer Prevention Foundation
Diabetes Research Institute Foundation
Doctors Without Borders USA
First Candle/Sids Alliance
Food for the Poor Inc.
Foundation Fighting Blindness
Freedom from Hunger
Fund for Peace
Girl Scouts of the USA
Girls Inc.
Helen Keller International
Human Rights Watch
International Rescue Committee
Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation
Kelly Heinz Grunder Brain Tumor
Military Pets Foster Project
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
NARSAD Mental Health Research
National Association for Down Syndrome
National Association of People with AIDS
National Association of the Deaf
National Center-Missing&Exploited Children
National Coalition for the Homeless
National Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
Operation Smile
Partners In Health
Prevent Cancer Foundation
Project A.L.S.
Ronald McDonald House Charities
SASS Foundation for Medical Research
Shriners Hospitals for Children
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Teach For America
The Lam Foundation
The Smile Train
TropicalClinics
Women’s Federation for World Peace
WomenHeart
YWCA of the USA
But, hey, at least they’re helping out the dealerships, right? – Well, at least the 2% of them that have gotten their claims reimbursed. Apparently, 80% of applications have been rejected. At least, so claims well-known GOP shill Rep. Joe Sestak (D).
Moe Lane
PS: Yes, yes, yes: they meant well.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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A source at the FAA in Oklahoma City indicates
The_Rebel (Diary) Monday, August 17th at 2:35PM EST (link)that this agency is the one that is processing clunker claims. People are complaining that it is very stressful. They have hired so many temporary workers that there is no room in the parking lots.
Just one question. Why is the FAA even involved with this? Perhaps an agency review is in order to ascertain why people who are charged with providing for our safe airways have so much time on their hands.
This list of charities looks a lot like the list...
Steve Maley (Diary) Monday, August 17th at 2:46PM EST (link)…that supposedly won’t be hurt when they cancel deductability of charitable contributions.
The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
We can't have the American People expecting help from any quarter other than the gov't!
nessa (Diary) Monday, August 17th at 4:52PM EST (link)Every cashed in clunker is worth a couple votes, pretty cheaply bought at $4500! Look at the millions of dollars wasted by charities helping folks when it could be buying votes!!
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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obama does not have the smartest people he claims in his adminstration proposing ways to spend my money
bobojake (Diary) Monday, August 17th at 3:01PM EST (link)obama don’t care who he hurts as long as the government doles get handout. Maybe its time the government doles need to go to work obama, instead you obama killin 3,000,000 jobs thats 3 million jobs in 6 months. What will it be in a year 6 million, 10 million????????