Cash For Clunkers Program Is More Crony Capitalism

The government kicks off another of its attempts to manipulate the economy today. Cash for clunkers. Don't have a job? Can't afford a new car? Eh, get over it.

The government has so screwed up our economy with more and more rules and regulations benefiting special interests that the only recourse to stimulate the economy is to keep passing more and more legislation with more and more loopholes targeted at helping more and more special interest groups bribing er, lobbying the government for economic opportunity. (This is exactly what happened with the deregulation of our banking industry and the relaxation of our monopoly laws.)

I'm waiting on the Sin-O-Rama Stimulus Package written to benefit the mob, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, church bingo parlors, pimps, indian reservations, drug runners or anyone else partaking in the "sin" industry as defined by our morally and ethically enlightened politicians. It will include a stimulus voucher for prostitution, cigarettes, booze, crack cocaine, uppers, downers, mushrooms, bongs and, most importantly, using your home as collateral on the roulette wheel at any casino in North America - winners get their mortgage paid off. In other words, the American people get the same stimulous package that Wall Street has been given over the years due to its deregulation. Pretty much that we can do anything we want to do and its all good.

Then we can all go out in a blaze of glory and blow our remaining savings on one last hurrah.