VIDEO- GOPFail: Analysts predict billions in benefits from 'Cash for Clunkers'

By GottaLaff



The good news headline won't stop all those Rushpublic crankypants from whining and crying. And you know why they're whining and crying? Because President Ba-lack Obama is having a few success stories, and they can't bear that:

The "Cash for Clunkers" program will continue with a $2 billion supplement that some analysts say could provide a boost of billions of dollars more as it reverberates through the economy.

Critics, however, say the program merely shifts consumer spending from one area to another.

The tone of that video is more negative than positive. But go back and listen to the arguments. Go ahead, I'll wait....

... Done? Good. Let's recap:

"Marginal increases in fuel economy"? "Not where you'd put the first dollar if your real objective for saving energy"? ANY increase in fuel economy is a plus, and this is only part of an overall clean energy program. Improved fuel efficiency is coming.

As for that "buy now, buy now" criticism... wasn't that one of the objectives of the stimulus package? To provide a badly needed and immediate jolt, kinda like, you know, The Surge in Iraq that everyone is so fond of touting as a Big Success?

Yeah, it's probably a better idea to do absolutely nothing... or to say that somehow the economy will spontaneously improve, just as it somehow spontaneously crashed. That's the latest meme that the Rushpublics are desperately trying to push, anyway.

And their ideas have worked so well for us so far, haven't they?