Posted on 09/03/2009 4:47:54 AM PDT by rellimpank
The Great Clunker Con proved one thing, at least: New cars are too expensive for a growing number of consumers. But chop $4,500 or so off the price and all of a sudden buyers are a lot more interested.
The problem is the interest (and sales) could only last as long as the payola continued to flow. Taking money from Taxpayer A to help Taxpayer B get behind the wheel of a brand-new car is ultimately just another government transfer payment scheme.
Now that the handouts are finished with, sales will almost certainly recede to where they were.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Cars are too expensive, but the sales during CforC weren't pulling in buyers that weren't going to buy cars at the current prices (which were lowere before CforC). Just watch car sales plummit now.
The only thing this did was entice people who were already going to buy in the near future to move up the date.
LOL, you had me going until I noticed the Palm Tree’s, you know, it’s so believeable though, Detroit is a complete disaster ...
Perhaps the government should limit how much the manufacturers / dealerships can charge for cars, like they limit how much Medicare pays doctors. </sarcasm>
The palm trees are a nice touch. Must from the Windsor side of the River.
Digging a large drainage ditch around it, with both ends connecting into the river, and then ceding it to Canada would likely save Michigan though.
The higher the percentage of liberalism, the more likely there will be socialist redistribution, tax and spend budgets, ever falling school quality, increasing crime rates and the productive fleeing as fast as they can.
Some areas, such as San Francisco or the upper NE for example, are so naturally beautiful or have so much to offer, that people stay and endure. But Detroit? Or Gary, etc.? Liberal politics and "solutions" are killers.
MI and Canada already fought a war over Detroit.
Canada won.
Falls Church, VA is a counterexample. 86% lib, city of about 11,000, $350M in the bank - rainy day fund. Actually, we had to sue the city to REDUCE the rainy-day fund.
Detroit: The Post-Apocalyptic Future of American Cities?
http://www.infowars.com/detroit-the-post-apocalyptic-future-of-american-cities/
In the History Channel series “Life After People”, sections of Detroit were used to illustrate (and baseline I suspect) rates of decay of buildings and infrastructure. There are 60 some odd square miles in Detroit and over 20 square miles are completely abandoned.
That SFH is sad.
That looks a lot like Africa..............
Part of the HUGE increase in the cost of vehicles over the past years is due to GOVERNMENT mandated safety features.
Canada won. They made us keep Detroit............
Detroit is SHOVEL READY... to be plowed under.
They should seal Detroit off and let the pedophiles have it.
See the Detroit for yourself.
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