Cash For Clunkers- I was unaware

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Here is the worst part, the US spent 3 billion on this program to save a whopping 350 million in gas total over the life of the new cars given best case scenario.

Then what really gets to me is that these "clunkers" could have been donated to charitable organizations for people who cannot afford transportation. I am doing some volunteer work with a group that helps previously homeless people get back into the job market and I look at these people and think damn, they could have been given these vehicles instead of trashing them. The vehicles also could have been donated to High Schools, Colleges, and Universities for their auto programs as well. Really the possibilities are endless and anything would have been better than the scrapyard.

This program is by far one of the most piss poor piles of crap I have seen from the government yet. Of course everything our government has done this year to "stimulate" the economy has been piss poor at best.