BREAKING NEWS FROM 2009: Final Verdict on Cash-for-Clunkers: Fail.

Related: Who’d a-Thunk It? “Here’s about as perfect an example as reality will ever serve up of a government policy built on the absurd premise that prosperity can spring from destruction – a policy, of course, pushed on Keynesian grounds. And yet people will continue, I’m sure, to promote such counter-productive destructive policies as creators of prosperity, and these people will continue to be hailed by legions of intellectuals as being ‘reality-based’ and ‘scientific.'”