Cash for Clunkers Success

[Riot]

What else would the car industry say?

The alternative to success would be: "It didn't work and I am starving and had to lay off my salesmen, and the car factory didn't have to gear up and produce more cars, and laid off people were not hired back."

But that's not what happened.

The govt gave buyers $3 billion dollars to buy up unsold inventory. It is a success for buyers and sellers but doesnt do much more for the other 98% of the country that is financing this.

Yes, nobody was buying cars, causing disaster for the car industry, and this made people start buying cars again, and they bought out the inventory causing the auto mfrs. to have to start building more to prevent a car shortage. Yes, that is a success for the targeted industry.

As for the workers put back to work (union workers by the way), that will be nothing but a temporary reprieve since the autos that they are making are still no better or wanted than the old ones that they couldnt sell without a giveaway of massive proportions.

You've not noticed what cars the public chose to buy? And you've not noticed what cars the auto industry is dropping (the ones turned in, the ones that didn't sell), and the new different cars they are introducing?