David Carius
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David Carius
@cariusgeorge
PT, DPT, MA /SAU DPT / ISUGD / Luther Bio / LutherSwimDive


NASA nuclear engineer found dead in burned Tesla after vanishing from his Alabama home last year trib.al/pVh5KPx



Cash for Clunkers destroyed 690,000 functional vehicles in 2009, creating an artificial scarcity that rippled through used car markets for over a decade. The Obama administration sold this $3 billion program as environmental salvation and economic stimulus, but any free market economist could predict the real outcome: massive wealth destruction disguised as progress. The program forced dealers to pour sodium silicate into engines, permanently destroying cars that poor families could have afforded. Politicians eliminated the bottom tier of the used car market overnight. Suddenly, a reliable $3,000 Honda Civic became a $7,000 Honda Civic (if you could find one). The supposed beneficiaries — working-class Americans who needed affordable transportation — got priced out entirely. Government intervention always creates unseen victims, and Cash for Clunkers delivered them by the millions. Single mothers, college students, and minimum-wage workers watched their mobility options vanish as used car prices soared 30% between 2009 and 2014. The environmental gains proved negligible too: most clunkers averaged 15-17 MPG while replacements hit 24-25 MPG. Destroying half a million cars to improve average fuel economy by 8 MPG represents the kind of central planning that would give Soviet bureaucrats a hard-on. The wealth destruction extended beyond sticker prices. Higher transportation costs forced people into longer payment terms, creating a debt cycle that persists today. Cash for Clunkers normalized 84-month auto loans, turning cars from depreciating assets into multi-year financial anchors. Bureaucrats congratulated themselves for moving inventory off dealer lots while condemning an entire generation to transportation poverty.

We forced a vote to extend Temporary Protected Status for Haiti – and it passed. 🙏🏼💙 Grateful for @RepPressley's leadership in this fight to protect tens of thousands of Haitians in our communities from Trump.


Philly Mayor Charelle Parker: "How dare you tell me, as mayor, how to tax you?"

The MMR vaccine has no aborted fetal tissue in it. This is the kind of nonsense that only a committed anti vaxxer like RFK Jr would say to scare people off one of the safest and most effective vaccines in history.





83-year-old veteran randomly shoved onto NYC subway tracks dies from injuries, illegal migrant charged with murder trib.al/jSRje4o


> Noelia's parents get divorced > state takes custody from parents > sent to state youth center at age 13 > gets gang-r*ped by 3 migrants there > suspects don't face criminal charges > tries to kiII herself, ends up paralyzed > state "helps" by euthanizing her at 25 > against the wishes of her loving family This is a story that just happened Spain

Cuadra por cuadra... tardará un poco, pero quedará hermoso.

i can’t explain it, but THIS is my problem with all these remakes.


