We’re all supposed to be surprised?
“... great Keynesian experiment...P>It was a Kenyanesian debacle.
It was a Kenyanesian debacle.
“Under the bipartisan program, the ...”
Yeah, right.
When my Daughter got married they had both just graduated from college. She had a job as an English teacher and he was working part time and getting a second degree as an RN. He is a big gorilla but they apparently find that useful in hospitals.
Their only car was an old Cavalier which had been salvaged from a flood and sold honestly as one which had been flooded and refurbished. She asked for my advice on a new car.
Since they didn’t have much money, I suggested a Corolla. I was a bit surprised when they actually took my advice.
Fifteen years later they are living the good life. Partly due to his having a high salary and partly due to inheriting around a half million dollars. That Toyota was traded in several cars ago.
The affordability of used cars was wildly distorted as well.
“accidentally”
Horsesht! It was not cash for clunkers, it was the Obama era insane gas prices that never got a democrat complaint. But during Bush Sr Desert Storm, all the papers were plastering about gas going from 95cents to 1.25.
Accident? The headline reads “Accidentally”. Pravda
All it did was take all of the older cars that the poor could afford, and bumped their prices to over $5000. Then, they gave them to China to build ships and tanks
I love my Corolla——great car for my current needs.
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“...helped cut environmental damages by $253 per vehicle.”
I’d love to see the assumptions behind the calculations for that.
My first really new car was a 1990 Corolla. As a field service engineer, I did a lot of driving. In 10 years and 240,000 miles, it only saw 3 non-maintenance service incidents. 2 of them were covered by warranty, the third was a freak occurrence: The exhaust manifold cracked, blowing a hole in the radiator. I was able to go 50,000 miles between brake jobs, and in 2000, as I was actually pulling into the Toyota dealership to trade in my car, the original clutch went out. The only reason I wanted to get a new car was a "perfect storm" of repairs: I needed a new clutch, timing belt, tires, brakes, struts and shocks, all new front end components (all the adjustment had been used up,) oil, & transaxle fluids. I'm sure I'm forgetting something else too. The car was burning about a 3/4 quart of oil every 3000 miles, and was getting 34MPG on the highway. But it didn't make sense to sink nearly $5,000 into a decade old car.
So I traded it in on a 2000 Corolla. And I got similar service from that car.
Due to arthitis and degenerative disk disease, I could no longer get in and out of a low sitting car like that, so I now dive a Toyota RAV4.
I LOVE my Toyota.
Mark