Originally Posted by samcol

I find it funny that the government has to subsidize all sides of this equation in order to get new cars to sell. I think it really shows what an unfortunate state the economy is really in. They have to subsidize the loans because the banks messed up, they have to subsidize GM because they are too big to fail (the supply), and now they have to subsidize the actual sale of the car as well (the demand side).

This does not sound like a very sound economic plan to me.