Government to offer loans to buy cars

Cleaver

dad-of-4 wrote: »

i can tell you now, if me and the kids are going to be paying for this anyway, then im damn well gona have a new car if i can get one

You may as well treat yourself to a nice, shiny, new bank as well whilst you're at it.

StevieJ

debralee wrote: »

I always thought that having a car was a luxury not a right!

You are joking.

CFC

You couldn't make this up.

Got to keep them US shareholders afloat...

Count_Dante

What does the government spend your taxes on when the economy is booming? Anti CO2 programs. What does it spend your taxes on when the economy is bust? Pro CO2 programs. Governments live in fear that they will succeed in their anti (something-or-other) programs, because jobs will be lost in the industry they are trying to discourage, which is bad for votes. So we then get more money wasted in a pro (something-or-other) program.

movingforward2010

id prefer to be able to get a NHS dentist than bail out a firm like landrover/jag - I will never be able to afford a £60k range rover !

matbe

SingleSue wrote: »

I would agree although sometimes it is a neccessity..like in my case.

* It really is by the way, disabled kids can't quite walk the near on 4 miles to school.

Disabled kids are picked up in taxis or mini buses and transported to school free of charge by the state.

I know this for a fact 1 nephew has downs another one has ataxia?

Why do you need a car?

poppy10_2

In France they have a bailout for the airlines as well. Free money for everyone! Roll up, roll up, get your handout here!

France eyes €5bn airline stimulus plan - BBC

wintersunshine

StevieJ wrote: »

It is a good job you are nowhere near the reigns of power or the economy would be a dead duck for sure :eek:

Too right. !!!!!!? and his own brand of sado-economics - what a scary prospect that would be.

SingleSue

matbe wrote: »

Disabled kids are picked up in taxis or mini buses and transported to school free of charge by the state.

I know this for a fact 1 nephew has downs another one has ataxia?

Why do you need a car?

Ahhh you do, do you? So nice you know my life and what I have to do.

Well in the case of my children, they are not...it is all down to the local education authority and their available finances.

They did receive transport when their schools were 10 miles away in the next big town but they don't now, even though myself, the schools, my youngests son's specialist teacher have appealed against the decision..their response is no money, no transport apart from those going to special schools in the next town over.

So it means that I do need the car...be a bit hard to walk one hundred miles a week for school runs (they are not at the same school).

Your nephews are lucky, not everyone receives the free transport.

Edit - On reading this through again, I must apologise for my rather sarcastic and angry tone...it's been a begger of a start to the year.

Sir_Humphrey

The problem is a lack of demand. If you just wait for people's finances to recover, they never will. The reason being of course a cut in income or unemployment, leading to a downward spiral of lower demand and further cuts in income. You need to have an income in order to save. You have to break the spiral somehow, and only the government can do it.