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Yes, the can drive a Lexus-- as long as the bumpers are black, not metal. Metal is too "showy" (I kid you not).

And while we are on that subject, the Mennonites and Amish are by and large wealthy by American standards. Definitely above middle class inome. Some I am aware of are millionaires.

Part of the reason is that is is really "old money", so to speak, and they are very good and responsible with their money and pass it on to future generations. Real Estate is a prime investment for them: large farms, good, solid businesses. AND they have an added benefit you and I can only dream about: they get to keep ALL their social security.

That's right, folks. They are exempt from social security tax. This means that while your retirement is getting squandered by Uncle Sam and the socialist hordes, THEIRS is being safety invested in real estate or some other conservative method, or invested in growing a business.

THe idea that these are "poor plain people" is just a lot of rubbish. I have seen many lovely Amish and Mennonite homes. The Mennos tend to live in more conventional homes because they use electricity. But their homes are usually large-acreage farms. The kids all drive beautiful cars (black, of course, if you are Horning Mennonite). The women drive huge, beautiful vans to haul the family around. Rarely if ever do you see an old-model vehicle among them. I have not see rust at a Menno gathering!!
And yet these same people will turn their noses at a Christian is not part of them-- even other Mennos of a different conference. Each one believes their style of dress and lifestyle is the RIGHT one. And you will ultimately be going to hell if you hav chrome bumpers on your shiny new Lexus!!!!

"Scribes, pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beutiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."
--Jesus Christ, Matthew 23:27-8.