The REAL Reason You're Broke

Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...oureBroke.aspx
>
> For a huge number of troubled debtors, it all began with a car. Too
> much car, financed too long, traded too soon.
>
> By Liz Pulliam Weston
>
> If you're constantly broke and can't figure out why, the answer may be
> sitting in your driveway.
>
> Americans are spending more on their vehicles than ever before -- more
> than $8,000 a year on average -- and it's driving some to the breaking
> point.
>

Americans are such idiots. They've been brainwashed into buying a new
$40,000 car every couple years, instead of just buying a $1000 beater
every 10 years.

"Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" > wrote in
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Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...oureBroke.aspx
>
> For a huge number of troubled debtors, it all began with a car. Too
> much car, financed too long, traded too soon.
>
> By Liz Pulliam Weston
>
> If you're constantly broke and can't figure out why, the answer may be
> sitting in your driveway.
>
> Americans are spending more on their vehicles than ever before -- more
> than $8,000 a year on average -- and it's driving some to the breaking
> point.
>

Americans are such idiots. They've been brainwashed into buying a new
$40,000 car every couple years, instead of just buying a $1000 beater
every 10 years.

Around here, the days of the reliable $1000 beater are long over. I have to
pay at least 5k for reliable now. Being in salt country is a large part of
the problem. That, and I'm getting frigging OLD. Breakdowns seem to always
be on the side of a dark country 2-laner at 0200, with wet stuff falling out
of the sky. It used to be an adventure- now it is just a PITA. I want
reliable- just get in and drive, and not have to think about it.

Of course, being a cheap SOB, the most expensive car I ever bought was $8200
for a 99 Accord, about 4 years ago. It should last another 4-5 years for me,
easy, as little as I use it. I do have to start thinking about replacing
that $5k 95 dodge caravan hauling vehicle- it is starting to make death
sounds. Only got 5 1/2 years out of that, so far. I've never had a car
payment, and never plan to. The used junk I buy lasts 4-5 years, and then I
buy something else.

aem sends....

In article >, wrote:
>> Americans are such idiots. They've been brainwashed into buying a new
>> $40,000 car every couple years, instead of just buying a $1000 beater
>> every 10 years.

> Around here, the days of the reliable $1000 beater are long over. I have to
> pay at least 5k for reliable now. Being in salt country is a large part of
> the problem. That, and I'm getting frigging OLD. Breakdowns seem to always
> be on the side of a dark country 2-laner at 0200, with wet stuff falling out
> of the sky. It used to be an adventure- now it is just a PITA. I want
> reliable- just get in and drive, and not have to think about it.

The best thing to do IMO is buy a new car, take care of it, and keep it
for a very long time.

> payment, and never plan to. The used junk I buy lasts 4-5 years, and then I
> buy something else.

I'd rather have a car I know.... the torqueless wonder was a car I
learned how to work on cars with since my parents bought it new. I was
having a problem that I thought was ignition. I had to replace the spark
plugs in the dark as my flashlight died on me. I did it. I simply knew my
way around that car that well.

Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely), Speeders & Drunk
Drivers are MURDERERS, a connisseur of gay kid porn and child rapist
spewed forth this nonsense in rec.autos.driving:

> Americans are such idiots.

And you are people's "Exhibit A," as to how stupid Americans are.

> They've been brainwashed into buying a new
> $40,000 car every couple years, instead of just buying a $1000 beater
> every 10 years.

Just because that's all you can afford is no reason for the rest of us
to stoop to your level.

BTW, gas prices are going down instead of up, you liar. Where's my $4.00
gas???

--
Loco Laura Bush murdered her boyfriend admits
to being a deadly speeder:

"There's a 55mph freeway near where i live and
if i do 50, everybody passes me. But if i do
60 very few do."
--Laura Bush murdered her boyfriend/laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE/
Speeders And Drunk Drivers Are Murderers (SADDAM) 12/17/2004
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I calculation I spend 7% of take home pay.

The nice thing about a new car is that you dont have to worry
about repairs for 4-5 years.

rick++ wrote:
> I calculation I spend 7% of take home pay.
>
> The nice thing about a new car is that you dont have to worry
> about repairs for 4-5 years.


You can buy a lot of repairs for $300-400 a month. I have two Ford Tauruses...
one a 2000 sedan; the other a 1992 station wagon I use like others would use a
pickup truck. I haven't sunk a penny in repairs on either in over a year. (I
do my own routine maintenance... oil changes, etc). But nothing has broken.

The new car guy has a payment every month whether it breaks or not. And if it's
3-5 years old, he may have both the car payment and a repair bill.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely), Scott en Aztlán
said in rec.autos.driving:
> necromancer > said in
> rec.autos.driving:
>
> >BTW, gas prices are going down instead of up, you liar. Where's my $4.00
> >gas???
>
> Hey, if you really want, I'll be happy to sell you some gas at
> $4.00/gallon. Just let me know how much you want.

No thanks, I'm just holding SFB to its prediction...

--
Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS demonstrates its
Bartlo quality forecasting abilities:

"At least they did where i live. It'll be $3 by
turkey day and $4 by Xmas as exxon tries to make
up for the money they lost lowering prices to
help their bud Bush."

Ref: http://tinyurl.com/y35dzw
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Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely), necromancer said
in rec.autos.driving:
> Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely), Scott en Aztlán
> said in rec.autos.driving:
> > necromancer > said in
> > rec.autos.driving:
> >
> > >BTW, gas prices are going down instead of up, you liar. Where's my $4.00
> > >gas???
> >
> > Hey, if you really want, I'll be happy to sell you some gas at
> > $4.00/gallon. Just let me know how much you want.
>
> No thanks, I'm just holding SFB to its prediction...
>

BTW, weren't you going to share the "I-5," video with us?





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Aunt Judy demonstrates its lack of understanding
of the concept of "</killfile>," and "<killfile>,"
and what a "thread," is:

"Now that takes nerve. You claim to killfile
me TWICE in the same thread and you expect
people to take you seriously???"

Ref: http://tinyurl.com/r5qp9

Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely), Scott en Aztlán
said in rec.autos.driving:
> necromancer > said in
> rec.autos.driving:
>
> >BTW, weren't you going to share the "I-5," video with us?
>
> I did:
>
> Message-ID: >

Posted as "Cazrlos Rojers." Wonder how I missed that.....

--
LBMHB/lb-VH/SADDAM supports the troops:
"Like hell. The Morons will just get a couple other jarheads to take
the place of these two. "
--Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS, Sept 13, 2006 10:43PM

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Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:
> Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> > http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com...oureBroke.aspx
> >
>> >
>
> Americans are such idiots. They've been brainwashed into buying a new
> $40,000 car every couple years, instead of just buying a $1000 beater
> every 10 years.

We need those idiots buying new cars so there's an ongoing supply of
used ones
for the rest of us.

gennif