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Clunkers Program Vs. Blacks
How will Blacks be impacted by Cash for Clunkers?
Obviously, that is a question that will have to be answered on a group basis, that is, not how one Black or another is affected but the overall impact the program will have on them. I have visited several local dealers and looked at the cars being destroyed under C4C. A disproportionate number are in very good or excellent shape, and a disproportionate number are of precisely the type of vehicle preferred by Blacks: larger American vehicles such as Lincoln Town Cars, Cadillacs, Ford Explorers, Chevy Caprices and the like. Some have astonishingly low mileage, such that one would think they were worth more than the government allocated amount as used cars. The numbers of these excellent used vehicles being taken out of circulation will mean that the value of the others will go up, as is consistent with the law of economics. Blacks will be forced to purchase more expensive cars and in worse shape, because that's all the BHPH lots they tend to have to buy from will have. And of course, the cost of recycled and rebuilt parts will go up, because many of the condemned cars will be purchased directly by metal crushers or shredders rather than salvage operations since the salvage lots often do not want to deal with the requirement to crush the basic structure and engine within an allocated time frame. I took the unusual and perhaps bold step of asking, as tactfully as I could, whether many Black consumers had traded a clunker in so far in the program. Each salesman or sales manager i asked was forthright in stating that while of course their dealership did not discriminate, so far, they had had nothing but White or an occasional Asian customer in the program. On the supply side, some Blacks in car manufacturing jobs and Black owned car repair firms will benefit. But since the trend is for the purchasers "clunking out" to buy import brands the work is disproportionately going to Asia and to Asian and European owned assembly plants in the US, which tend to have a lower percentage of Black workers than do domestic manufacturers. The overseas brands typically build their facilities in the Southeast where fewer Blacks of car-worker age and skills tend to live today. In short, Blacks in my opinion should evaluate whether barack Obama's program has benefitted or indeed harmed them, and if they conclude the latter, they should say so publicly. |
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Clunkers Program Vs. Blacks
On 11 aug., 00:09, Bret L wrote:
*How will Blacks be impacted by Cash for Clunkers? *Obviously, that is a question that will have to be answered on a group basis, that is, not how one Black or another is affected but the overall impact the program will have on them. *I *have visited several local dealers and looked at the cars being destroyed under C4C. A disproportionate number are in very good or excellent shape, and a disproportionate number are of precisely the type of vehicle preferred by Blacks: larger American vehicles such as Lincoln Town Cars, Cadillacs, Ford Explorers, Chevy Caprices and the like. Some have astonishingly low mileage, such that one would think they were worth more than the government allocated amount as used cars. *The numbers of these excellent used vehicles being taken out of circulation will mean that the value of the others will go up, as is consistent with the law of economics. Blacks will be forced to purchase more expensive cars and in worse shape, because that's all the BHPH lots they tend to have to buy from will have. And of course, the cost of recycled and rebuilt parts will go up, because many of the condemned cars will be purchased directly by metal crushers or shredders rather than salvage operations since the salvage lots often do not want to deal with the requirement to crush the basic structure and engine within an allocated time frame. *I took the unusual and perhaps bold step of asking, as tactfully as I could, whether many Black consumers had traded a clunker in so far in the program. Each salesman or sales manager i asked was forthright in stating that while of course their dealership did not discriminate, so far, they had had nothing but White or an occasional Asian customer in the program. * On the supply side, some Blacks in car manufacturing jobs and Black owned car repair firms will benefit. But since the trend is for the purchasers "clunking out" to buy import brands the work is disproportionately going to Asia and to Asian and European owned assembly plants in the US, which tend to have a lower percentage of Black workers than do domestic manufacturers. The overseas brands typically build their facilities in the Southeast where fewer Blacks of car-worker age and skills tend to live today. *In short, Blacks in my opinion should evaluate whether barack Obama's program has benefitted or indeed harmed them, and if they conclude the latter, they should say so publicly. Your colossul mistake is to frame this by race. It is classist in nature. Most blacks drive wheels worth well more than $4,500 |
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