A few weeks ago, I reviewed the recent "Cash for Clunkers" law passed by Congress. I made the seemingly ridiculous assertion that over the life of the program Congress might bring 15,000,000 cars into the program as we all got hooked on Congressional car incentives. Well it is over a month later, and it's not too early to see if the government is holding the line.As it turns out, the program was legislated to begin on July 1, 2009, and actually only formally got under way on July 24th. It took less than a week for the billion dollars to run out, with dealers envisioning commitments for over 200,000 cars. And they want us to believe that having run out of money for this program in one week, they can handle taking over all of healthcare! Think of this Pimp My Ride program as Viagra for America's waning love affair with the automobile. The Congressional Caucus from Michigan has announced that they will seek to have an additional $2,000,000,000 added to the program covering...(Read Full Post)