Last night, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" addressed one of the crucial economic policy questions of our time: why do the Ivy League snobs in the Obama administration hate Truckasaurus so much? See, the Cash for Clunkers program thoughtlessly deprived demolition derbies and monster truck rallies of the elderly cars they need in order to remain totally awesome.

Watch senior economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, friend of Consumerist, try to defend the government against accusations of being anti-demolition derby.

Crash for Clunkers [The Daily Show]

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