From The Super Geniuses Who Want To Run Your Health Care...

Hey, if Obamacare works with the clockwork precision of Cash for Clunkers, who the Hell is gonna need a Death Panel?

Hundreds of auto dealers in the New York area have withdrawn from the government's Cash for Clunkers program, citing delays in getting reimbursed by the government, a dealership group said Wednesday.

The Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association, which represents dealerships in the New York metro area, said about half its 425 members have left the program because they cannot afford to offer more rebates. They're also worried about getting repaid.

"(The government) needs to move the system forward and they need to start paying these dealers," said Mark Schienberg, the group's president. "This is a cash-dependent business."

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Schienberg said the group's dealers have been repaid for only about 2 percent of the clunkers deals they've made so far.

Many dealers have said they are worried they won't get repaid at all, while others have waited so long to get reimbursed they don't have the cash to fund any more rebates, Schienberg said.

The Obama Administration can't run a simple reimbursement program without fucking it up, but it's gonna provide us all with better health care, er, insurance, er, whatever than the private sector can provide... For less money.

Right.

And tomorrow I'm going to wake up as a seven foot tall negro with an NBA contract.

 

"Muffy will eventually adjust..."

Comments

[richard mcenroe]

Don't used cars keep better than donor livers and kidneys?

[markg8]

The government's online reimbursement system was flooded with reimbursement requests shortly after the program began in late July, overwhelming the computer system and staff set up to process the deals. That led to big delays for dealers trying to file the paperwork they needed to get paid back for the rebates.

LaHood said some of the submitted paperwork has been incomplete or inaccurate, leading to delays. He acknowledged the Transportation Department did not have enough people to process the paperwork but said the DOT was ramping up staff.

DOT said earlier this week it was tripling its work force to handle the rebates and expected to have 1,100 workers dealing with the paperwork by the end of the week.

Lot more than 23 weeks Dennis? I'm gonna have to start betting you real money on some of your predictions.

[Pablo]

Dennis was kidding about that seven foot negro thing, mark.

[Dennis the Peasant]

Now they're ramping up.

Meanwhile, half of NYC's dealers have pulled out of the program.

Big fucking feather in someone's hat, Mark.

[markg8]

Fact is the extra $2 billion is almost gone anyway. As for extending it again, to quote Barbara Billingsley in Airplane: "Chumps don't want no help, chumps don't get no help."

[henryyoung]

Good…, as they say, all good things come to an end. Actually, this could be considered a BAD thing b/c it’s CRAZY, we are giving people money to live more vicariously and lavishly than before all this economical bust took place? What are we doing? Spoiling every single last American? Let’s learn to live in moderation, then we wouldn’t have so much debt…Well, the fish sticks from the head..so the head is the While House…right?