Barack Obama has decided to help out the auto industry by having the government purchase 17,600 new US-made fuel-efficient cars. These are cars that the government more than likely doesn't need. But they will be purchased in order to boost the auto industry. Is this a long term boost? A true economic stimulus? Absolutely not. It is nothing but a government gimmick. The government is not really buying these cars. The government doesn't have the money. The government is borrowing the money and sticking you, the taxpayers, for the payments. All this to make some sort of a political point about green cars.

Imagine what the American taxpayers could do with $285 million. You could spend it on cars that you will actually want! Not cars that the government wants you to want. Buying what you want is a free market exercise. Buying what the government wants you to buy - or the government buying it in your name --- well, that's certainly not free enterprise.

The government decides what you want. More change you can believe in.