Cash for Clunkers, an unsustainable government gift to the auto industry, goosed third-quarter growth numbers.
There are no jobs without capital, and Cash for Clunkers promotes the destruction of capital.
Cash for Clunkers requires the destruction of existing cars so that new cars can be manufactured.
Provide more temporary tax incentives like the cash for clunkers program or the first time homebuyers credit?
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So at this point, we don't see or have plans for redoing the cash for clunkers program.
The Pelosi Congress also passed ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank, cash for clunkers, the housing tax credit, and much more.
That could mean that the impact of Cash for Clunkers will continue even after the program eventually ends.
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Maybe, but there are too many energy-inefficient cars on the road at present, and Cash for Clunkers will sideline them.
As is well known now, Congress recently introduced a "Cash for Clunkers" program meant to stimulate demand for more energy-efficient automobiles.
Cash for Clunkers is saving jobs up and down the auto supply chain: from dealers to assembly workers and parts markers.
Roberts pointed to the Cash For Clunkers program, which he said had a solid spurt before it finally began to fade out.
The booming "Cash for Clunkers" program may mean good things for unemployment.
If you go back to last August, not a month ago but a year and a month ago, we had Cash for Clunkers.
And with the cash for clunkers program as well as other recent environmental initiatives, there could be more IPOs in the alternative energy area.
Green Cars The new "cash for clunkers" law is designed to get Americans to replace old cars with new ones that get better gas mileage.
But Congress has slashed the loan guarantee program's budget to pay for other priorities, such as last year's "Cash for Clunkers" program to boost auto sales.
Cash for Clunkers actually helps all of us -- even those of us who do not participate in the program or work in the auto industry.
The Japanese automaker sold 205, 342 units in March, a 1% increase and its highest monthly figure since the Cash for Clunkers program back in August 2009.
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Mr. Redman also shelved trying to use the federal "cash for clunkers" program to buy new vehicles, in part because the health-care debate was at full boil.
It is time to simply allow the housing market to rebalance after the pull-forward, as it did in the auto market after cash for clunkers (also extended once).
Policies have focused on short-run changes and gimmicks recall cash for clunkers and first-time home buyer credits rather than on creating conditions that are favorable to investment that raise productivity and wages.
Cash for Clunkers also helps autoworkers across the country.
As it turns out, preventing the tax increase has done more for job creation than all of the increased federal spending, tax credits, cash for clunkers and other government boondoggles and handouts.
Remember, first, that the ad comes from the same government (whether Democrat or Republican) that has given us bailouts, QE1, QE2, QE3, cash for clunkers, subsidies for the likes of Solyndra, etc.
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In one column, he shows how Cash for Clunkers hurt most those who could not afford a new car by requiring the destruction of thousands of trade-ins, driving up the price of used-cars.
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"Manufacturing led the recovery last year, but partially due to temporary factors, " says Huether, who cited tax credits for purchases of homes and efficient appliances, the Cash For Clunkers program, and the stimulus package.
"We burned off quite a bit of inventory due to the cash for clunkers, but the demand side is still a shelf of its former self, " says Matt Lloyd, chief investment strategist at Advisors Asset Management.
We don't look at -- we don't look at -- we're not making decisions about health care, the economy, Cash for Clunkers, banks, anything, based on polling, based on what's going to happen in a congressional election.
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