Are we supposed to be surprised???

Cash for Clunkers only worked while the cash was available for buyers? You mean it had no carryover effect? Wow, what a shocker!!

U.S. auto sales likely fell in September back to the nearly three-decade lows of early 2009 without government incentives to spur buying, leaving in doubt the timing and pace of a recovery for the battered industry.

Nearly 700,000 new cars and trucks were bought by U.S. customers through the government "cash for clunkers" incentive program from late July through the first three weeks of August, a leap from recession-stunted sales earlier in 2009.

However, none of the largest manufacturers are expected to post sales gains in September, and Edmunds has forecast a 23 percent industry sales decline for the month.

Crap for Clunkers

Looks like nobody knows how to spend like the good ole gubbamint, eh? How do you manage to lose $1 billion dollars in the span of 4 days? Easy, promise everyone a program that has no need and you'll find out that within a WEEK, you need an additional 2 billion dollar injection to save a program.

And these are the same morons who want to run our health care? The same morons who say they will be able to keep health care spending under control? Here's a better reading of keeping health care that people will like...and it involves MINIMAL involvement of the liberals in government.

Otherwise what you'll get is a new kind of clunker program...one in which the government considers your parents and grandparents to be clunkers to be traded in rather than allowed to live a full life.