Obama folks avoid simple plan

Cash for Clunkers has run out of money? That is just more government waste at its best. If the Obama administration really wanted to help the automobile industry, housing industry and banking industry, not to mention the poor, all it had to do was to give each American (304,059,724 of us) a million dollars (it's our money after all) with the requirement that we each purchase a new car, purchase a new home or pay off our mortgage and place the rest in a interest-earning account.

We could be saving over $600,000 of our own money, fix a lot of our problems in this country and -- oh, wait. The Obama folks want to keep us indebted to them, especially the poor. Never mind. I forgot who I was talking about.

TERRY VARNER, Ste. Genevieve, Mo.