Editor:

Who did this Cash for Clunkers idea help? The auto industry, which received billions of bailout tax dollars, and some car dealers had more buyers than they could sell vehicles to.

For sure the price of used cars for poor people who could not buy a new car will go up.

And what about people with real clunkers? The people who bought new cars turned in good, running, well cared-for cars that had to be destroyed.

If President Obama was really concerned about little people, why didn't the clunker idea offer those decent vehicles as trade-ins to people with real clunkers? People who are homeless and live in their clunker cars, many of them with children? And people needing a decent car to get to work? That would have taken some real clunkers off the road and made highways safer.

President Obama and his gang had better start using some common sense in their deficit spending and bribery programs.

With 10 percent unemployed, that stimulus money should be applied to needed projects like crumbling roads and bridges and something like the 1930's Public Works Program and put people that are unemployed to work instead of paying out unemployment payments to people sitting at home or in a bar waiting for the next unemployment check.

And how many public work jobs could be created for people who have no unemployment checks if that tax money would have been used to create jobs instead of those billions of dollars that went to those banks that gave out million dollar bonuses to those who caused the economic mess?

AL HAMBURG, Torrington