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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cotjones" data-source="post: 6205560" data-attributes="member: 573988">the "cash for clunkers" sounds like a pretty good idea of stimulus to me. However i'd like to see it implemented in other ways that stimulate the economy more directly. Most of the money spent on cars ends up tied up in banks for a long time. Figure out a way to give incentives to those shopping for food, or smaller privately owned businesses. That money get's directly pocketed and emptied back into the economy.Off topic, but somehow made me think of this: i came across an interesting program the other day about the economic effects of the ford motor company back in the 1920's. Ford's assembly lines required unheard of hard work and thus caused ford to double his wages to an amazing 5$ a day. This spured MASSIVE amounts of immigration so much that ford had his own school for teaching english.</blockquote>

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