Cash for Clunkers Success

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

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.



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.



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?

Since when do people not take free money? Since when does a handout not get taken advantage of? People will stop buying cars as soon as this program ends. This program did nothing but move backed up inventory. So what are we going to do now that people will stop buying cars since this program is over? Giving money away is easy, fixing problems isnt. Obama is great at giving money away. He doesnt appear to have any clue how to fix problems.

No one is saying that this program was a disaster or anything. But it is far from a novel or brilliant or really useful program. Maybe it gives a little shot in the arms to a battered (though deservedly so) industry but the fact is that going forward not much was really accomplished. Maybe with the amounts of money being tossed around these days, $3 billion isnt even something worth talking about?