Unintended Consequences (Part 83,390)

clipped from www.riehlworldview.com The Cash for Clunkers program has now officially caused problems from beginning to end. By law, clunkers must be recycled within 6 months. But the cars flooding into junkyards have created a backlog. The only way to comply with the law is to crush good parts and limit the recycling involved. Another solid steel Obama Big Government mess. "I've got a parking lot of almost 4,000 vehicles right now," said Harry Haluptzok, chief executive of John's Auto Parts in Blaine, Minn., near Minneapolis. His business typically dismantles 100 vehicles per week, but the workload has now more than doubled, and Haluptzok hired 10 more workers to keep up with all the extra vehicles.