{"id":5222,"date":"2009-08-08T09:18:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T14:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2009-08-08T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T14:19:30","slug":"cars-is-like-really-great-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5222","title":{"rendered":"CARS is Like Really Great Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Pawlenty ripped the federal CARS “Cash for Clunkers” program this week.<\/p>\n

It makes no sense, he said on his weekly radio show<\/a>, for the federal government to bail out a company such as General Motors and then give consumers as much as $4,500 to buy a car from GM.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“It makes everybody feel good,” Pawlenty said, “but because we own GM, we’re just paying ourselves back. It seems a little odd.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Car dealers respond predictably…<\/p>\n

“I think the governor’s comments are unfortunate and maybe ill-informed,” said Scott Lambert, executive director of the Minnesota Auto Dealers Association. “This program has clear benefits to it. The only downside is that it’s using taxpayer money<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We wouldn’t want to nit-pick where the money’s coming from.<\/p>\n

…but it’s stimulus money that’s working. It’s promoting some of the biggest economic activity the state has seen all summer.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe so, but what happens when the program stops?<\/p>\n

It’s akin to Billy Mays endorsing cocaine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Pawlenty ripped the federal CARS “Cash for Clunkers” program this week. It makes no sense, he said on his weekly radio show, for the federal government to bail out a company such as General Motors and then give consumers as much as $4,500 to buy a car from GM. “It makes everybody feel good,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-patrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}