<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a4c7e21a-56b3-4714-ae76-066b881d7796/D0AF3712-D60C-4D94-969A-14118B1C0DC6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/22/cash-for-clunkers-helped-sell-hummers/" href="http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/22/cash-for-clunkers-helped-sell-hummers/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.walletpop.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/22/cash-for-clunkers-helped-sell-hummers/">The Transportation Department has released sales figures for Cash For Clunkers, one of the greatest frauds of the past few months, and the results are interesting.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/22/cash-for-clunkers-helped-sell-hummers/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.walletpop.com/img/C0F2788C-B0C5-4175-82F0-39615D1DA587" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/22/cash-for-clunkers-helped-sell-hummers/"><DIV> Fifteen 2009 Hummer H3T's <A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32958411/ns/business-autos/">were sold and paid for in part with taxpayer money</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/22/cash-for-clunkers-helped-sell-hummers/">Hummers. Now defenders of the program will of course be quick to point out that in the grand scheme of the program, 15 Hummers is not a lot </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/22/cash-for-clunkers-helped-sell-hummers/"><DIV>But that's beside the point. </DIV> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/22/cash-for-clunkers-helped-sell-hummers/"><DIV> Here's the fact: The Cash for Clunkers program forcibly confiscated money from some Americans (or, in the case of deficit spending, the disenfranchised grandchildren who will inherit this mess) and literally used it to buy Hummers for other Americans.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/22/cash-for-clunkers-helped-sell-hummers/"><DIV> Does anyone reading this not have a serious problem with that? Have we lost our way so much in this wave of bailouts and economic stimulus that no one bats an eye when their neighbor sends them a bill for a new Hummer?</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/22/cash-for-clunkers-helped-sell-hummers/"><DIV> Can someone please get outraged about this?</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D0AF3712-D60C-4D94-969A-14118B1C0DC6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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