"You are letting your ideology blind you to reality."
That's funny Larry. I was implying the exact same thing about you.
J
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No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
session. - Mark Twain
The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and
I think you need to read the NPR interview. The raw economic numbers
only tell part of the story. That's why you look at the people
involved.
Besides you are talking about two entirely different things. Schools
and academic performance are not car sales, and cannot be treated as
such. Moreover if
"Problem is that the authors are just looking at the raw data, not what
people thought."
Larry!!!
I don't believe that you typed that.
When we were posting on vouchers, you were fully behind looking at the raw
data that private schools perform no better or only fractionally than public
schools.
"We still aren't making a profit, but at least we didn't have to close our
business."
That's at least one good thing that came from it then. Especially the part
about keeping other employed.
J
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No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
session. - Mark Twain
Th
"Anyway, a retrospective analysis shows that it wasn't a terribly worthwhile
program. It seems to have influenced the timing of purchases rather than
stimulating new purchases and it took a lot of ok cars off the road that has
since resulted in higher prices in the used car market due to lower sup
I can't speak to the overall efficacy of the program but my family
owns 41 car dealerships, and the Cash for Clunkers program saved us,
allowing us to keep all of our stores open, and continue the
employment of over 2000 people. We still aren't making a profit, but
at least we didn't have to clos
Problem is that the authors are just looking at the raw data, not what
people thought. NPR had an article about it yesterday:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/09/02/129608251/cash-for-clunkers
To quote:
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Christopher Carroll, a Johns Hopkins economist who until last month
was a member of Pre
I was dubious about the Cash For Clunkers program when it was
announced. I understand the desire to get really old, trashy,
polluting cars off the road and help get auto sales going but the
logic wasn't quite there to me. If you had the money to spend on a new
car (even with subsidies) would you h
