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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (10819)	10/28/2009 10:26:17 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

But this Cash for Clunkers program perhaps through sheer happenstance came off brilliantly. There was no fraud. The timing could not have been better. It exceeded all realistic expectations. You have no way of knowing that. Five years from now that might prove to be true but you can't know yet. Surely you know that car sales are down right now and will stay down for a long time after the clunker bubble burst. Whether that takes a greater toll than the toll that continued slack sales a few months ago would have taken, you're not even considering.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (10819)	10/28/2009 12:03:39 PM
From: Peter Dierks	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Cash for Clunkers program perhaps through sheer happenstance came off brilliantly. With an average cost to taxpayers of around $20,000 per car it was a stupid waste of money. Brilliant is not a word that anyone should use about that wasteful program. Accelerating demand is not a function of government. As history looks back CFC will be viewed nearly as badly as Obama being given the Nobel Prize for ten days of meetings, swearing in a deputy and having a Super Bowl party.