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Cash For Clunkers Not So Green?

Andrew deRenzy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:25:07 +0000

While the Whitehouse won’t release the specifics on cars bought with the Cash 4 Clunkers program, a quick look at Edmunds.com shows how much the dems have been wrong in toting it as a successful green program.
The #1 Car is the Ford Escape, a compact SUV or SUV, as described by Edmunds.com, its fuel economy ranges from 21-24 mpg depending on the model you buy. With a comfortable 171 to 240 HP to tow your kids to soccer practice.

#2 selling is the Ford Focus which doesn’t even break the 30 mpg range, sitting at 28 mpg. Who cares about its HP?
#3 SUV Jeep Patriot (25 mpg) 158 – 172 HP
#4 Dodge Caliber (22-27 mpg) 148 – 285 HP
#5 Ford F-150 (15-17 mpg with over 51 different styles!) 248 – 310 HP wooooooo!

All excellent vehicles, and I applaud this change towards buying bigger better autos. Hell, if I was given the prospect of turning in a junker in order to get my money back from the government and buy an F150 I’d go for it! [not really, I just like to spoil the environMENTALists fun]. The only real fuel efficient cars that break 30 mpg aren’t in the top 5 and number 7 is the Chevy Silverado with 15-17 mpg with 255 – 345 hp. They can hide their numbers and birth certificates[LOL] but we’ll find them somehow!

Thank you Democrats. I’m pretty excited about this now, more SUV’s and trucks to eat my dust!

Big Trucks Mmmmmmmmmm

Is the SEIU In Trouble?

Andrew deRenzy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:22:50 +0000

This evening on the Mark Levin show, Mark mentions probing into the SEIU to determine if they have been using union dues illegally to promote politics. Mark Levin’s non-profit conservative legal advocacy group Landmark Legal Foundation, “has made efforts to scale back funding for non-profits which it holds to be political in nature but list no political expenditures on tax forms.”[from wikipedia ugh] The NEA has been a constant target, with Landmark fighting for a higher quality, lower cost education.
Recently the SEIU has been a strong advocate of Obama’s health care plan even packing into a St. Louis townhall meeting, filling it with half SEIU members. If they have been using tax-exempt Union dues to fund any political movement they will be in trouble.

Everyday people have been accused of astroturfing, but what is it when the SEIU starts sending their drones to these meetings?

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Cash For Clunkers Success Report Being Hidden

Andrew deRenzy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:36:49 +0000

The left is parading the cash for clunkers program as a success, however they are unwilling to release the actual data from the car dealers and manufacturers on how exactly successful the program is.

This from Michelle Malkin

The Obama administration is refusing to release government records on its “cash-for-clunkers” rebate program that would substantiate—or undercut—White House claims of the program’s success, even as the president presses the Senate for a quick vote for $2 billion to boost car sales.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Sunday the government would release electronic records about the program, and President Barack Obama has pledged greater transparency for his administration. But the Transportation Department, which has collected details about 157,000 rebate requests, won’t release sales data that dealers provided showing how much U.S. car manufacturers are benefiting from the $1 billion initially pumped into the program.

The Associated Press has sought release of the data since last week. But the public and Senate Republicans demanding more information will have to wait for details because federal officials running the program don’t have time to turn over data delivered by car dealers, said Rae Tyson, spokesman for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

You would think that they would be throwing the numbers in our faces, but they refuse to provide them to even those on their side, the AP. They want 2 Billion more to extend the program but cannot show us the hard numbers. I guess that’s how they like to run things, give people NINJA loans. Provide no proof that they are benefiting Americans but want more money? This may not be the most transparent White House in that we can see what they are doing, but we can definitely see right through them.

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Cash for clunkers is a failure

Andrew deRenzy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:01:42 +0000

The state run media is exalting the cash for clunkers program as a huge success. despite its obvious flaws.

Out of budget in 1 week when projected for ~14 weeks.
Destroying perfectly good cars.
Taking cars off the list after having them on.
The cars that qualify may only be a few mpg better, (Global warming doesnt exist but if they are gonna claim we need more mpg cars then go all the way).
People see it as the government giving them money but it’s really their money to begin with.
Massive confusion whether the deals are still going on.
Why is it only helping only car companies? Where is the “Cash for Cluckers” and “Cash for Lumber” “Cash for Potato Couching”
Government is picking winners and losers
More borrowing money to get out of debt?

You can also just redline your car for a while to qualify it and get 4,500 off a new car.

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Obama toilet paper UPDATE: socialism obama TP

Andrew deRenzy — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:59:33 +0000

Joker Obama Socialism TP (Not For Sale)

New and improved

I had an idea but it seems someone beat me to the chase. I applaud the guys at Jeremy Inc. for their creativity. Sadly the Obama toilet paper is not for actual use and for display only. But I surely wouldn’t mind showing Obama what my insides are made of(or just what I ate for breakfast). They also have McCain toilet paper, another great idea, and do custom prints for gag jokes and such.

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Tax cuts are helping people buy “cupcakes”

Andrew deRenzy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:26:04 +0000

Raleigh, NC
Obama today used his strong oral command to say “we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the recession.” Extoling a $787 Billion stimulus bill, “we helped stop a recession from becoming a depression” sounds like the argument, “well if we hadn’t thrown those virgins into the volcano the gods would have been angry and erupted”. Of course now with all these new stimulus jobs the 8,000 verizon workers soon to be laid off will have a new job waiting for them and still be able to buy “cupcakes and other necessities of life.”

He moves on to health care throwing more virgins into volcanoes. He couldn’t promise a cut in half of health care costs but states if no bill is passed the price will be higher, answering a question from a woman who praised his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor. Also calling oposition to the health care bill misinformation. Well just check out some of these little gems easily found through our friends at google.

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Say on pay? or war on profit?

Andrew deRenzy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:04:16 +0000

The Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee are looking to have legislation on Obama’s desk this fall to allow shareholders to vote on executive compensation. The only argument for this is the war on profits brought on by the left and it’s media cronies. Their ideology is that the economy is a zero sum game, when someone profits he is essentially stealing it from someone else. We should obviously protest Wal-mart, Microsoft, Google, GM and any corporation that has made any profit ever. They buy slaves that break into your house, steal your money, and replace it with products we use everyday, right? Oh you voluntarily paid a price for a product that their workers voluntarily agreed to be paid to make, and in exchange for setting this whole company up the CEO gets compensated how they see fit. Of course shareholders should have the right to tell exec’s what they should be paid too! If you could only consider the fact that shareholders are the bottom feeders in a corporation, and only have say in major dealings. The left has demonized profit and made it a major dealing. So I’ll suggest why stop at corporations? Let’s have a minimum wage and maximum wage for every job, including elected officials, regularly voted on by the people. Or even better “the wage”, dictated by the proletariat, everyone gets paid the same. Oh wait that’s communism.

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