Mindel wrote:
Expand it. This is an excellent form of stimulus that benefits struggling local dealerships (and their struggling employees) and gets people in to vehicles that will cost much less to operate in the long term (as well as being more environmentally friendly).
This is so much more productive than pouring buckets of cash in to megabanks.
Admittedly it is a good, successful idea. The only concern I have with putting more money into it is that there was the stimulus that pumped money into the megabanks. This, and ideas like this could have been an excellent alternative to the stimulus we already have but we can't forget that we already have a pile of debt tied up in other avenues.
We as a whole can't act like that money spent on the banks, foolhardy, misappropriated, or even admittedly defended as a the proper course of action did happen. Those dollars were spent, we need to act like there's a negative over there. Don't we? Rather, shouldn't we?
I'm saying, we can't keep spending and spending and spending. It just doesn't work like that, the card castle that's being built is going to collapse and the void in the economy that's left is going to be felt.
It's like the country as a whole doesn't realize that the c4c and programs similar to it are funded by real dollars. Dollars from all of our pockets, dollars we have not actually paid in yet. If you got a new vehicle, good on you you; got a grant from everyone else but that money came from somewhere. It's not free money. It's like the young kids who get credit cards and have no concept of the fact that the card limit is actual money that has to be paid back, till they get in over their head it's just a bank account to them with some arbitrary cap.
Idk, like I said, it's a good idea, just...idk.
