Trickle-down clunkers?

Wed., Aug. 12, 2009

The Spokesman-Review

If the government was really serious about getting clunker cars off the road they would now have a lottery and let people with the real clunkers have a shot at trading in their car outright for one of the pretty decent cars that are now slated to be destroyed.

The reality is that the people driving the real clunkers weren’t out last weekend buying brand-new cars, because they couldn’t afford it even if you gave them $4,500. Why not trade the poor person’s junker for someone else’s “not-so-clunker”?

Karen Szakonyi

Newman Lake

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