"car buyers.... have been waiting weeks without a new ride."
Yup, you DON'T DRIVE OFF the LOT with it because the GOVERNMENT is INCOMPETENT on this one! Website keeps crashing!
See: Slow Saturday Insult: Administration Crashed Car Clunker Program
"Clunkers deals boosted industry, but now what?" by Stephen Manning and Ken Thomas, Associated Press | August 25, 2009
WASHINGTON - Now comes the hard part for the auto industry - luring customers without big Cash for Clunkers discounts.
The popular government rebates gave auto sales a jolt, but it was only temporary. Now car makers and dealers are forced again to confront the worst market in a quarter-century.
All it was meant to do.
This was never about you, 'murkn.
How could taking on more debt help you?
While Cash for Clunkers may have proved there are still car buyers out there, it is unlikely the heavy demand will last. In fact, the big rush to car lots this month may have had the unintended effect of stealing sales from this fall and next year....
I really don't want to hear it; I have my own problems.
Cash for Clunkers, which offered drivers as much as $4,500 off the price of a new, more fuel-efficient car, proved far more popular than anyone imagined....
That's why they SHUT IT DOWN after $3 billion, huh?
Gee, BANKS and WARS get TRILLIONS, no problem.
Sigh, and GUESS WHAT was CUT or REWRITTEN (arrrrgh!)?
Cash for Clunkers had its complications: Congress had to race to approve $2 billion more for the program after the first $1 billion quickly ran out. Dealers complained the government was slow to reimburse them for the deals they made on new sales.
Now WHY in the WORLD would you TAKE THAT OUT?
Hours before last night’s deadline for Cash for Clunkers sales, the government gave dealers an extension, until noon today, to file the paperwork to get repaid....
Yeah, incompetent government and their website trying to say it is you and the paperwork, citizen. Unreal!
The Transportation Department granted the extension after the website set up to handle the claims was temporarily shut down from overload.
Yeah, it NEVER REALLY GOT UP!!!
For the auto industry, coming off the program could be like a letdown after a sugar high....
You mean, like the broader economy after this "run?"
Ah, that's all right; we eat too much sugar as it is:
"Americans must cut back on extra sugar, heart group reports; Main culprits are soda and candy" by Jamie Stengle, Associated Press | August 25, 2009
DALLAS - .... 22 teaspoons of sugar each day....
Most of that added sugar comes from soft drinks and candy....
Cutting back on sugar likely won’t be easy for many people, said Lona Sandon, a dietitian at Dallas’s University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. “I think it’s probably going to be a struggle for quite a few people,’’ Sandon said.
Calculating one’s sugar intake can be tricky....
Like the fat thing?
Related: Smile, Kids, You Are on Candid McCamera
Talk about your mixed menus.
Sandon said parents can help lower that sugar intake by getting soda out of the house, looking at how much sugar is in their children’s cereal, and substituting snacks like cookies with popcorn.
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