EconProf: That was a very smart suggestion (destroying Mexican clunkers and replacing them with US gifted used cars) to reduce border/global pollution and get a lot of free goodwill. It is so sad our governments have so little creativity. Imagine if U.S. government offered to just buy more than, say, 5 or 7 year old cars for $3500-$4500 and gifted the good ones to Mexico in exchange for getting equal number of their cars for scrapping. Overall pollution would have been reduced and our auto factories would be working at full speed increasing employment. This would have been the best stimulus money can buy.
