From USA Today:

Cash-for-clunkers — officially the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) — helped more than Hersrud. It's credited with turning around business at dealerships across the country and resulted in Ford Motor's first monthly sales increase since November 2007.

"Without cash-for-clunkers, we would not have had a year-over-year increase" in July sales, Ford Vice President Ken Czubay said Sunday. Automakers report July sales Monday.

CARS provides government discounts of $3,500 or $4,500 to people who trade in older vehicles with poor fuel economy for new ones that do better. The amount depends on how much better the new one is.

It's "the stimulus program that has worked better than any other stimulus program," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said on CBS' The Early Show Saturday Edition.

The never-ending augmentation of exchange-value, which the miser strives after, by seeking to save his money from circulation, is attained by the more acute capitalist, by constantly throwing it afresh into circulation.

The capitalist must reinvest (circulate) money; not to do so is to do something that is not in its nature (or essence) capitalism. The minute the capitalists sits on money is the moment he/she is no longer a capitalist. And this is precisely what the bankers/the rich are doing at this moment—sitting on money. For this reason, we can see why the last (real) capitalists in this recession are those without capital—the poor. They will (and often have to) move money, throw it right back into the system, and keep the economy above the sleepy pull of death.