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    Have Heard the Car Ads – Trade That Clunker?

    If you listen to the radio at all you have surely heard a car ad telling you to trade in your “clunker” for a new car. The program is pretty straight forward – you can get up to a $4500 rebate for bringing in your old car and driving off in a brand new one.

    I was driving with someone the other day and upon hearing a car ad referring to the trade in program he said, “That’s great that they are doing that.” I smiled and said, “the ‘they’ in your comment is your children, so when you go home tonight you should thank them.” Of course I got a blank stare, so I explained that the money for the rebate program came from the federal government, who got it from the treasury, who printed a bunch of money that your children
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