Actually, it is a very conservative idea that is skewed to help the UAW. Giving people their money back, in the forms of tax breaks, tax refunds or cash for clunkers, is definietely something a conservative could support. Now, just give back that money directly back to the taxpayers and you have an instant stimulus across the board.
The problem is that giving money back to the taxpayer doesn't mean that he or she will spend it. The "cash for clunker" does a couple of good policy moves: (1) it improves fleet gasoline mileage so the country imports less oil and it saves on what a family spends on gas, and (2) it helps the auto industry here in the USA survive.
If the gov't gave me $4500 i would just save it or spend me on gasoline for my gas guzzling clunker.
"All roads lead to Putin" -- Thomas Jefferson
This is an incentive I can relate to ...
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/...ef=videosearch
If you go to the cars website, the privacy waiver that you click gives the gov permission to take all the files on your computer for any reason.
If I google for cars.gov privacy waiver, all I see is links to Glenn Beck stories and this thread. Oh wait, because he said "waiver" instead of "policy"... thats hilarious.
Completely retarded, but hilarious.
Searching for the privacy POLICY I foundthis from the EFF:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08...-terms-service
And maybe duckbillplatty will come on here to tell you the EFF isnt going to be a "liberal" media source on this one, and if they say Glenn Beck is wrong and over-reacting and outright lying, then the EFF is right.
The EFF attacks the poorly worded policy as much as they do Fox News's hilariously incorrect reporting.
But I do think it just goes to show how much you guys will buy what Fox News tells you without even thinking about it. It's incredibly sad, really.