Drive More! Our Economy Depends On It

This is how my American government tries to foist fuel economy upon two hundred and ninety nine million people who don't give a shit about their energy use: Cash For Clunkers.

The real name is the Consumer Assistance Recycle and Save Act of 2009. Note, again, how all you ignorant Americans aren't regarded as citizens, but only as consumers. The term consumer is so widely synonymous with citizen that Congress is effectively calling you a dumb fucking consumer instead of a voting citizen...but they don't call you that to your face. Don't you feel better 'bout that?

One billion dollars of your [future] tax payments! Wa-hey! We don't have a billion today to spend so we'll gamble that things will improve and print a billion more to encourage you to buy a new car you don't need so you can ostensibly save our economy. Clearly, Washington is fully aware that our moronic auto-dependent nation can't function without the perpetual selling of more cars than the year before.

Another billion dollars spent to help you keep our automotive economic engine alive. Just pile it on top of the other thirty or forty odd billion already blown to bail out the Autos: 1/30th isn't that much more, is it? Of course it isn't.

This whole Act screams "we're doin' all we can to save the world from global warmin'" while providing nothing more than a government subsidy to sell more fucking cars. This is a program whose intention is to take money from me to help my neighbor buy a car. My Elk Grove neighbor, the wholly car dependent asshole driving nineteen thousand miles a year -- he gets to trade in his car at my expense, and will likely drive his new car twenty three thousand miles next year because his fuel efficiency is better. He's really looking forward to getting back to his usual seventeen yearly round trips to the Bay Area to visit his relatives and old stamping grounds rather than his current eleven.

Yep, we're really gonna green up this place with this legislation, goshdarnit.