"I have to disagree with it because you don’t destroy good usable
things that still have a purpose for no reason whatsoever other than trying
to artificially boost the economy."

Straying only slightly more off Vanagon topic, the waste is what some of us see and it is visible in lots of places, and it hurts.  Try a college town when summer rolls around, and check the dumpsters for computers, bikes, furniture, clothing and more bought with daddy's money and deemed too troublesome to pack up and move or even to be donated.

Stephen