The federal government has only reimbursed auto dealers for 2 percent of the claims they've submitted through the popular "cash for clunkers" program, a Pennsylvania congressman said, calling on the Obama administration to help speed up the process.And these people want to run your health care...
Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., called for "immediate action" to address the problem in a statement Sunday, after writing a letter to President Obama Saturday expressing his concerns.
In the letter, Sestak said only 2 percent of claims have been paid and that four of every five applications have been "rejected for minor oversight."
In recent days, auto dealers across the country have been complaining that the reimbursement payments are slow to process. And they said some of their applications were being rejected because of apparent procedural issues. The statistics Sestak cited suggest those complaints are not based on isolated incidents.
Staffing could be one problem. According to sales data summarized by Transportation Department officials, dealers have submitted requests for rebates on 338,659 vehicles sold.
But while Congress just expanded the $1 billion program by $2 billion, the Department of Transportation says a staff of just 225 people is reviewing those claims.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Promises for Clunkers
You can't really call it "Cash for Clunkers" because so far very little cash is being disbursed to auto dealers:
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Let's see - if you bought a GM car with your $4,500 rebate and financed it through GMAC -
$4,500 in TARP money is going to a dealership to purchase a car manufactured by a company that received $50 billion in taxpayer money and whose financing arm received $5 billion in TARP funds back in December.
Sounds like a ponzi scheme to me.
These Stooges want to run our health care. That's nothing. They are merely incompetent.
Worry about the scary Franken-bureaucrats they got hidden in the back room -- folks like Raum Emanuel's brother, physician Ezekiel Emanuel a bioethicist who defends a system for deciding which people should be triaged out of this world. The bioethicist has discovered a way of deciding whose life is productive and has greater worth.
As bad as that might sound for old people, those they figure just need a little shove -- the young are not exempt from Dr. Emanuel's calculus. Children with Down's syndrome, cerebral palsy, and other debilitating diseases will be candidates for palliative care according to Emanuel's logic, as well as children born during abortion procedures, premature infants, or any infant with serious medical problems.
How can I say this? Because he looks at the whole problem from the point of view of defining the person's potential worth. An infant is less fully developed in its humanity than a child, a child less so than an adolescent -- and by this logic all manner of other categories of persons could be declined care simply because they don't fit into a Harvard educated person's idea of an examined life.
When they read Plato, they got to "an unexamined life is not worth living" and stopped reading. Evidently, that's all they thought would be on the test. Doofuses!
What they didn't get is that it's their own miserable elitist lives that need the examining! That's what Plato was talking about. Sophistry, which would be their special bailiwick.
It's really never too late for a late term abortion according to these guys, only they never stop to consider that it's their philosophy that poisons society.
I met a lovely young woman with Downs recently, such an elegant and sweet young woman -- and her one life is worth more than an army of these self-aggrandizing creeps.
http://www.lifenews.com/bio2908.html
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