What about these headlines Sutton?
“To liberals, intentions are more significant than the outcomes they achieve.”
- Quinn’s Laws of Liberalism
The CARS ( Cash For Clunkers ) program created wonderful results for a very limited number of Americans. The legislation also gave a boost to the name recognition of an inexperienced representative from Ohio’s 13th district. In case anyone in OH-13 had missed all the press coverage given to CARS, Congresswoman Betty Sutton graciously (at your expense) produced a spectacular multi-page, full color mailing to proclaim her own greatness.
If you were to believe the “Look-At-Me” mailings from early 2009, you might think the congresswoman had single handedly rescued the American auto industry from the brink of total destruction. The reality, of course, is drastically different. Sutton’s Cash For Clunkers program was nothing more than a quick high. America, as it turns out, was the big loser at the end of Sutton’s program. According to numbers provided by the CARS website, the big winners were foreign auto makers.
The following visual representation of the CARS program was recently shared on Facebook.
Between July 1 and August 24, 2009, the federal government provided 677,081 rebates to individuals who traded in an older, inefficient vehicle for a new fuel efficient one. This diagram illustrates the countries from which vehicles were "cliunked" and the countries that built the cars for which they were traded. http://politicalmath.wordpress.com
