The Obama administration wants an additional $2 billion for the “Cash for Clunkers” program, but can’t provide any accounting of how the first $1 billion was spent.
The Obama administration is refusing to quickly release government records on its “cash-for-clunkers” rebate program that would substantiate — or undercut — White House claims of the program’s success, even as the president presses the Senate for a quick vote for $2 billion to boost car sales.
I also find it troubling that the “clunkers” must be destroyed. You want these yahoo’s running health care. Got it.
added 8/4/2009 @ apx 22:00.
Ed Morrissey comments and concludes…
Obama wants billions of dollars more in taxpayer subsidies for clunkers. Taxpayers have a right to know how their money already got spent in this program. Indeed, that data belongs to the public, and we certainly should review it before Obama spends billions of dollars more on it. That’s what transparency is all about.
And if Obama stonewalls on how money gets spent on Cash for Clunkers, imagine how he’ll react to demands for the records on ObamaCare.
Yea, imagine. It’s frightening.
