Sunday, August 2, 2009

Why I Should Be President

It's true. I have legitimate reasoning as to why I should be president, and if not president, at minimum a renowned Senator.

Everyone's aware of the new "Cash for Clunkers" precedent from the government, right? Trade in your old vehicle and get up to $4,500 dollars toward the purchase of new car. Great idea right? I mean, you could tow something up to the dealership and still manage to get $3,000 dollars out of it. Man, our congressional system really nailed it this time....

...oh wait, I thought up that exact idea in OCTOBER. October! As soon as Ford and GM began their collective bankruptcy and the government decided to give them billions upon billions of our tax dollars to them, I said to my parents (in a lengthy discussion, no less) "This is what they should do, they should give every American home about a $4,000 dollar credit to go purchase a new car. However, they have to trade in an older car that has high emission rates. This will enable a lot of newer, more fuel efficent cars to get on the road and the old ones, continuing to pollute the ozone--off the road." I went on to say that with this $4,000 dollar credit, the Big Three would be able to "bail" themselves out per se, and would still promote business and a product to boost the US economy.

So suffice it to say, I came up with the same freakin' idea 10 months before our entire government and 500-600 of our country's most productive and forward thinking minds. Oh wait! Their plan does have something mine didn't, maybe that's what took them ten additional months to come up with: A witty slogan in "Cash for Clunkers."

1 comment:

Deanna said...

Aye, I'm sure you could have come up with something just as clever, or better.

And because of this I am kicking myself for selling my Camry at $400. Bill could have gotten a car dammit. Serious regret. Humph.