Earlier this week the House approved the “cash for clunkers” bill otherwise affectionately known as the clunkers program.

The clunkers program is hoping to stimulate car sales by allowing consumers to trade their “gas guzzling” cars and trucks for a voucher from our heavy handed government. The clunkers program certainly destin to become just as efficient the brain trusts that authored and passed this bill.

So all should be comforted with the clunkers program knowing that our government is spending our tax dollars so we can then buy and be taxed once again on the purchase of these more fuel efficient golf carts… cars.

The auto industry has sought such incentives particularly after the deplorable numbers of the past few months of this economy. But then again, this same auto industry has had their head up their ass concerning the future of their business for quite some time.

Isn’t this the same industry that for the past several years has been touting the virtues of such efficient vehicles as the Hummer, Expedition, Suburban, and the likes? They didn’t seem to have any problem spending billions on both the manufacturing and indiscriminate marketing of such ill-fated platforms.

So much so, that now we cry alligator tears for them and offer up a yet another tax payer funded clunkers program to bail out their inability to look into the future of their own industry.

But even with that, the clunkers program is in reality, yet just another strong-armed program from Washington to slice away another freedom of choice. While once again our government tries to manufacture demand for a product rather than allow market forces to run their course.