Oh lord, it sucked more than you could imagine. one died. the other was totaled. and my wife was in it. on moving day. a very rainy moving day. And i was so upset i manage to dent someone’s car parking the moving van. I can laugh now, but those were some of the most miserable days of my life.

She’s okay, mind you. i can tell you that those saturns are amazing in a wreck. Too bad the company is going kaput, but even used, those cars are great in terms of survivability. and pretty kick ass on mileage.

But its a special moment when the insurance company calls to discuss a wreck on a date certain and you have to ask, “which one?” and the best part, they ask me who my insurance company was, for the moving van accident, and i say, “guess what? you are!”

Like i said, i can laugh about it now.

“Those that believe in nothing, will believe in anything”

I can’t think of one good idea that has come from this government in the past year.

Happyfeet, that sucks about both your cars dying together. That really sucks. I also had an awful car, a true clunker, that was ineligible for the program. I saw great cars on youtube being destroyed with my tax dollars. It’s just so frustrating… this is real damage to our people and our way of life.

It’s nice to know I can take care of myself without freebies, but it is obviously disheartening to know that I’m getting the raw deal. Someone who wasn’t as responsible gets to live in a house for ages after not paying their mortgage… or someone gets a huge assist with their down payment on a house they may not be ready for (and can’t leave during a semi-depression!), or gets a huge check while being encouraged into a new car payment they can’t afford, or gets super easy terms on student loans and credit cards, while someone who plays by the rules gets new fees and higher interest to make up the difference.

The government is actively out to help people who aren’t working as hard. Being poor in America is relatively awesome, so why screw me? Obviously, because that’s how Obama gets his votes. And our kids, their kids too, are going to pay dearly for Obama’s campaign. It’s just plain unnatural to steal from your kids.

$24,000.

That is right, it cost $24K per car to give out about $4.5K.

Add that to the fact that this was in essence a destruction of wealth program and you can see how nuts it is. We are literally a poorer nation because of this program.

And the whole thing was ridiculous. my wife’s car got terrible mileage but it was not eligible, and mine got great mileage but it was. huh? And because then both of our cars were totalled (long, bad story), we literally had to shop for car the day after it all ended (yes, my life is proof that God is real and has a cruel sense of humor sometimes). I swear i think i saw tumbleweeds in that car place it was so deserted. Clearly this was artificially moving what would have been 4th quarter purchases into 3Q.