Quote:
Originally Posted by grassfarmer
So the democrats want more money for clunkers? They tell us that their program was so widely successful that it burnt through one billion dollars in 4 days. Lets do something that the democrats wont do...some math. Assuming that every single transaction qualified for the highest dollar amount, or 4,500, more than 222,222 (one billion divided by 4,500 following this?)cars with QUALIFYING trade ins would have had to be sold in the last 4 days. That is more than 55,555 cars sold per day in the US for the 4 days that that program is active. Further assuming that not one single car was sold that was NOT participating in this program, so 55,555 cars per day represents every single car sold, that would translate to annual US car sales in excess of 20,277,757 cars. (daily sales multiplied by number of days in a year, are the libs STILL following this?) In 2006, at the height of the GWB gluttony capitalist pigfest, Americans whetted their disgusting appetite on 7,667,066 cars that year. That was the total. Foreign, domestic, not one more than that.
So, taking into account all the unrealistic assumptions I just made, that means that approximately three hundred percent more cars were sold just under this program than the total of the whole baby killing minority bashing capitalist pig year of Bush and his go go economy. Amazing, and with 20% unemployment and no credit to boot. This man is a genius. Just imagine what he can do with health care? I'm serious.
Not one person, to my knowlege, has even thought to do the math and see that what they say cannot POSSIBLY be true, unless someone is scamming the system of course. I think this is so funny.
|
Your "basic" math is correct. If all of the cars qualified for the max of $4,500 for the entire $1B originally appropriated...then yes, that equates to 222,222 cars.
Where your math gets screwed up and your argument really falls apart is trying to pro-rate it on an annual basis. Try this math....
Even if another $2B is added to the program as they are saying will be done (stay with me here...that makes it $3B
TOTAL), the amount of cars sold under this program will be a
total of 666,666 cars. Now how do you get from this number to 20 million cars for the year? Given the depressed sales to date, and the most likely drop off after the "clunker program," I'll bet the total cars sold in the US this year will be far below the average
16 million cars a year for the last five years.
Quote:
|
I picked this up from a forum.
|
It might be time to stop going to that forum if you want accurate info.
