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swampfoxfan said:
You and others referred to Biden as pudding head. Have you looked at your orange leader?
Wanders around lost while meeting the Japanese leader. Or explaining water to sailors on a Navy ship. Or bragging about a "very hard" cognitive test where he had to differentiate between elephants and giraffes. Ole cankles has lost what little he started with. The only ass he kicks is magas.
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To be fair, your party did as well. Or else they wouldn’t need an autopen.
 
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McDad said:
I can never make the math work. Financing cost plus depreciation never put me ahead.

So I buy 4 to 5 years old from the salvage auction.

Of course, if new is a given in your decision regardless of cash or financing I can appreciate keeping your capital working for you when you get a very low rate.
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I've never gone the salvage route on a vehicle. But I rarely buy personal vehicles, so far in my life I've owned 4 personal vehicles not counting my wife's or kids. I tend to keep them when i buy them.
 
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hog88 said:
I've never gone the salvage route on a vehicle. But I rarely buy personal vehicles, so far in my life I've owned 4 personal vehicles not counting my wife's or kids. I tend to keep them when i buy them.
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keeping longer than the average is an important factor.

All I am able to do with salvage is save about 50% off the original sticker because of the age (which anybody can do) and save another 20-60% off the used price because of the salvage title.
 
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McDad said:
keeping longer than the average is an important factor.

All I am able to do with salvage is save about 50% off the original sticker because of the age (which anybody can do) and save another 20-60% off the used price because of the salvage title.
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I've got friends that flip vehicles every year or two and I just can't wrap my head around it. But I grew up the son of a farmer, my dad still has every pickup he's ever owned.
 
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DinkinFlicka said:
Bro, read his posts. Lol.
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I have and don’t understand why he would feel betrayed. He claimed that he has voted for Trump three times. It’s been nine months andTrump has tried to accomplish most of his promises. He seems upset about Tariffs but Trump has been promising Tariffs since the 1980s.
 
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swampfoxfan said:
Well that's just great for the stock market class, but there is not much going on for 50% who don't/can't afford that pleasure.

Like many I'm concerned about snap recipients being cut off, when the money is available. What's more concerning is why do so many Americans have to rely on snap.
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It's all on you boi Dollar Store Obama. B!tch at him

You finally ask the right question with your last sentence. I wholeheartedly agree
 
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swampfoxfan said:
Well that's just great for the stock market class, but there is not much going on for 50% who don't/can't afford that pleasure.

Like many I'm concerned about snap recipients being cut off, when the money is available. What's more concerning is why do so many Americans have to rely on snap.
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Tell your Democrat leaders to stop using Americans as leverage

 
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McDad said:
keeping longer than the average is an important factor.

All I am able to do with salvage is save about 50% off the original sticker because of the age (which anybody can do) and save another 20-60% off the used price because of the salvage title.
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This is the way.

An idiot i know just bought a 5yo Porsche Panamera for $11k that looks showroom new with a salvage title. Its a freaking automatic though. An automatic Porsche car is just wrong on so many levels...they objectively make the best manual transmissions on Earth (Honda/Acura consistently rated 2nd). For an SUV with paddles i could understand. But not a sportscar who just so happens to make THE best manual on Earth.

I would love to buy at auction next time myself. McDad do you have a licensed buddy that buys for you, or did you get a license yourself? I know you have personally fixed up a couple nice vehicles like Acura and Lexus right?

** this person being an idiot has nothing to do with his car. He is just naturally an idiot.
 
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swampfoxfan said:
Well that's just great for the stock market class, but there is not much going on for 50% who don't/can't afford that pleasure.

Like many I'm concerned about snap recipients being cut off, when the money is available. What's more concerning is why do so many Americans have to rely on snap.
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many don't HAVE to.

like they could reasonably find a way to pay for food themselves. They choose to use SNAP to pay for food, so they can instead spend the money they have on wants, instead of needs.

many purposefully take fewer hours to avoid losing benefits. Look out west where they raised minimum wage, you saw employees requesting fewer hours.

too large of a percentage WANT to be on benefits. choose a lifestyle where others take care of them, instead of being responsible for themselves.

I think of it a bit as a snowballing problem. you have a "core" who do need SNAP, or other programs, to ever get food/help/whatever. then you have some edge cases who need it at times, whether its a reoccurring issue or just life sucked for a while. Then you have other edge cases who are right there on the border. both of those edge cases find it easier to remain on benefits, rather than seek a lifestyle that requires more work to generate the same results. some its the economy takes a dive, and they are pushed into it.

you take ALL of the various welfare programs and you are looking at different various "cores" and "edges". there are definitely some overlap, but each program is going to have its own separate "target", and its own separate "edge" cases. eventually people on one program are going to find their way onto others. that could be "naturally" - life sucks - but others choose it.

and then you take all those programs, and you multiply it by generations of users. kids see their parents living on "bennies" and that is what they do. its all they know. they are taught that by both family example, but likely local cultural trends, and even the government who says everyone is the victim of something. the result you get is a mix of "tall poppy syndrome" and "scarcity mindset". people who "have" to be on benefits because they never learned to take care of themselves. Its always weird to me that people want to make this a racial/inner city statement, the real world examples I know of were poor whites out in the boonies who sit on a lawn chair in front of their single wide waiting for the check to show up.

unfortunately the system is designed to make sure people can't take care of themselves. look at schools. how many home ecc or woodshop classes now? was anyone ever taught how to balance a check book? or how taxes ever work? schools don't teach people to be independent, and for those with limited options they find it reinforced that they must rely on the system.
 
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swampfoxfan said:
Well that's just great for the stock market class, but there is not much going on for 50% who don't/can't afford that pleasure.

Like many I'm concerned about snap recipients being cut off, when the money is available. What's more concerning is why do so many Americans have to rely on snap.
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I think it's awful that the Democrats have shut down the government and held food stamps hostage as a negotiating tool. I was responding to an older post where one of the resident liberal posters was predicting doom for the stock market and a coming recession. The market affects a lot more than 50% of the people because when it goes up, the retirement accounts(401K, IRA etc) and pensions that so many depend on goes up. Also a recession hurts the lower class the most so not being in a recession is great. It also spurs economic growth which will lead to more jobs. Couple that with Trump lowering gas prices and we are about to really take off. Hopefully we leave the disastrous 4 years of Bidenomics in the rear view mirror for good. That year of 9.2% inflation was a killer for everyone.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
This is the way.

An idiot i know just bought a 5yo Porsche Panamera for $11k that looks showroom new with a salvage title. Its a freaking automatic though. An automatic Porsche car is just wrong on so many levels...they objectively make the best manual transmissions on Earth (Honda/Acura consistently rated 2nd). For an SUV with paddles i could understand. But not a sportscar who just so happens to make THE best manual on Earth.

I would love to buy at auction next time myself. McDad do you have a licensed buddy that buys for you, or did you get a license yourself? I know you have personally fixed up a couple nice vehicles like Acura and Lexus right?

** this person being an idiot has nothing to do with his car. He is just naturally an idiot.
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I use a buyers agent. She is affiliated with Copart. Her charge on the last purchase was $250.
Happy to provide her contact info if you need to use her. If you have any friends in the car business (dealerships, used cars, auto body shops, junkyards, etc) they can usually purchase with no agent needed.
 
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TheDirector said:
I think it's awful that the Democrats have shut down the government and held food stamps hostage as a negotiating tool. I was responding to an older post where one of the resident liberal posters was predicting doom for the stock market and a coming recession. The market affects a lot more than 50% of the people because when it goes up, the retirement accounts(401K, IRA etc) and pensions that so many depend on goes up. Also a recession hurts the lower class the most so not being in a recession is great. It also spurs economic growth which will lead to more jobs. Couple that with Trump lowering gas prices and we are about to really take off. Hopefully we leave the disastrous 4 years of Bidenomics in the rear view mirror for good. That year of 9.2% inflation was a killer for everyone.
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You guy suck up anything pedophile president tells you. You think 50% or more Americans have a 401K, you're offbase.
 
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