{"id":1007,"date":"2009-08-26T14:01:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T21:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/26\/cash-for-clunkers-in-focus\/"},"modified":"2009-08-26T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T21:01:35","slug":"cash-for-clunkers-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/26\/cash-for-clunkers-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash for Clunkers in focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota has explained the &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; program <a href=\"http:\/\/hughhewitt.townhall.com\/blog\/\">this way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>we borrow money from the Chinese to pay money to ourselves under the banner of cash for clunkers, so we can feel better about buying cars from ourselves and companies we own, General Motors, so someday, we might be able to pay ourselves back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this robbing Peter to pay Peter?  The problem is the Paul had his hand in the cashbox after the robbery&#8230;  so there isn&#8217;t enough left to pay Peter back for what we just stole from him.<\/p>\n<p>Our problems are only getting started.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1007\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/26\/cash-for-clunkers-in-focus\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1007\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/26\/cash-for-clunkers-in-focus\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1007\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/26\/cash-for-clunkers-in-focus\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/26\/cash-for-clunkers-in-focus\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/26\/cash-for-clunkers-in-focus\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota has explained the &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; 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