Cash for Clunkers – catchiest government program name ever

“Cash for Clunkers.” It’s zingy and fresh and just like “you’ve got your peanut butter in my chocolate” it’s inspiring imitators.

Via Tam, Cash for Codgers:

Have a gall bladder that needs to be removed? Stop on by the local clinic- and bring Aunt Edna with you. Doctors will pound some digitalis down her to destroy her internal organs so there won’t be any likelihood of her coming back around to bug you. And you’ll feel so much better, having had your Gall bladder repaired while subtracting an aging consumer from our medical welfare rolls!

Reason’s got a million of ‘em:

We could enjoy “bucks for bungalows” to re-inflate housing; “shekels for stereos” to get the electronics business zapping; “moolah for motorboats” to get our seas swelling with the sweet sound of economic growth.

Let’s revive America’s crumbling kitchen and bathroom infrastructure and stimulate the flooring industry with Simoleons for Linoleum.