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most dealers bitching about payment delays were about to go out of business anyways, every dealer around here managed to have plenty of cash/credit to float themselves the needed 20-30 days and that was before gm and a few other car companies began offering the dealers the 4500 in credit per car so they would not be out of pocket anything while waiting to be paid. dealers also started letting them sell cars not currently in stock to boot.
money wise it also was not under funded. it originally was mostly an environmental program that was quickly hijacked as a stimulus program when it really took off. it also was clearly stated early on that the program was to last until a set date or until funds ran out. that right there shows that there is no possible way it did not have enough money. they just added more due to public demand and the programs crazy success.
nobody also expected it to help with employment issues either but it did with everyone from automakers to dealers hiring back people.
have no issue with the lack of used cars that will be available in the future. do wish they would of allowed even older cars to have been traded in though. many older cars are much worse than the cars from the years that were allowed. i do have issue with how they disposed of the cars. seizing the engine up was fine with me and it does insure the car will not run anymore thus thrashing it. however i do wish they then would of allowed junkyards to disassemble the cars taking whatever was still good or usable part wise and recycling/reusing it.
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