Cash for clunkers was one the most awful things to ever happen to the US economy.

It effectively removed 90% of easily repairable, computer-free cars from the roads, creating a financial burden on the lower half of American society that amounts to billions of dollars.

This is why no one can just "buy a beater" to get by for a while any more. This is something we in GenX relied on to get established, older Millennials as well.

GenZ and many Millennials seem to have no idea that the very things they are begging for caused their current problems.