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Article: Dealer says 'cash for clunkers' will hurt people who need most help
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 5, 2009
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George Cassity, owner of First Class Cars on the corner of State
Street and 800 South in Salt Lake City, knows someone President
Barack Obama should have talked to before he launched the Cash for
Clunkers program.
That would be him.
Day in and day out for the past 25 years, George has sold used
cars to the American people. Many of those cars are what the
government has now officially classified as "clunkers" and is paying
up to $4,500 to get off the streets and destroyed.
And there goes George's inventory.
"It's hurting most the very people it should be hurting the
least," says Cassity of the scheme to drive new car sales with the
way-more-than-they're-worth clunker trade-ins.
"When you take ...