Ugh! That’s the way I now feel about politics. I used to watch the Sunday morning news shows. Tim Russert, and the whole gang. All they talk about now is Hillary vs. O’bama, or McCain. Who cares? All three are disasters. McCain says he can win in Iraq by 2013. Isn’t than a grand prospect? By 2013, the buck may be worth less than a half cent compared to the two cents it’s now worth, compared to 75 years ago. If this goes on till 2013, a gallon of gas might be $15 and gold $3,000 an ounce, or maybe a lot more. Why more? Because more and more of the world will realize that their currency is merely a piece of paper with ink on it, and can be produced endlessly by their leaders or politicians. Hillary is sorry she voted for Iraq, and O’bama is probably a Muslim, or close to it, if that church he is so fiercely devoted to hates whites and America, as it says it does. Who cares?
No matter who gets elected, America’s future looks pretty glum to me. At any level, politicians seems to me to be ignorant about everything. At all levels, politicians are glued to re-election from their first being sworn in, so glamorous the office seems to be, which I cannot understand. It must be glamorous to be a city council person, when it pays less than $200 a month, and involves endless meetings? Works out to about a quarter an hour I suspect, at least in my small town. Being a Congressman, Senator, or even President, doesn’t pay all that well, and uproots one from town, neighborhood, friends and home. Who wants to live in the White House with armed guards everywhere and no privacy? If I were President, I’d be assassinated almost immediately, as I would turn D.C. into a virtual ghost town, after I dissolved most of the bureaucracies and fired the tens of thousands of bureaucrats. Just imagine America without the D.C. Gang’s tentacles in every nook and corner of our personal and business lives. Imagine America without the income tax, fuel tax, and all 270 taxes which are mostly hidden. Imagine America without the Federal Reserve, endless wars which no one likes except politicians and manufacturers of guns, planes, and bullets. Who needs it or them? Not me.
Why would anyone give a dime to McCain or anyone else? As if your vote actually counts, which it won’t. If the ten or fifteen thousand readers of this drivel stayed home in November, would it make a difference? Would it make a difference if any of the three were elected? Never in history, has there been such a rotten choice. Can’t we all write in Ron Paul? Being a Republican used to mean so much, but it’s almost an insult now. I’m a life member of the Libertarian Party, but still a registered Republican, but neither of them will make a difference. It’s all hogwash. The Libertarians want open borders, and the Republicans refuse to close them. Libertarians have never glommed more than one or two percent of the vote, so it doesn’t matter whether they run or not.
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That’s how much your new car will lose in its first year of life. 27%, or an average of ten grand is how much less your new car will be worth after a year, regardless of the miles driven. So why would anyone buy a new car? I have no idea, but I certainly wouldn’t. I have heard that Chevy Suburbans lose the most and Toyotas least, but all literally take a bath in their first year. Actually, after a couple of decades, cars actually grow in dollar value, because of their age. The hot items now are cars in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. A ’59 Pontiac going for $40,000? It happens all the time. My ’47 Jeep I am restoring, isn’t costing me a dime, no matter what I put into it, because it can’t cost any more than it will be worth when it’s finished. My ’41 Plymouth truck, in which I have $2,000 in 1970’s dollars, is now worth well over $20,000 so rare it is. Every one isn’t into antique cars or antiques of any kind for that matter, but they not only hold their value, but increase in dollar prices all the time. If people want something different, they will go the antique way as far as cars and furnishings are concerned, even in a modern home. Saturday, I bought a shirt at a thrift shop for $1.50, and it is really nice. Came from an expensive neighborhood, and this morning, Sunday, I saw the exact same shirt being worn on TV. I’m not into used clothes, but if one can find something that fits and is of excellent quality, why not? I am a cheap skate in some ways, I guess. Why not get the most of anything for the least dollars, and especially if the quality is excellent?
Older cars also have cheaper tags, insurance, and parts. Did you ever stop and think of how much that deductible car insurance costs? I dropped mine years ago. If you have an accident, they’ll pay you for the book value of your car, and if it’s a few years old, the book value will be so low, that having that expensive insurance is pointless. If it isn’t your fault, the other guy pays anyway. Liability insurance? You bet, but deductible? Not me. You’d better get a video tape of everything in your house too, because if there is ever a fire, you will need to prove what you lost.
Looks like the metals are on the upswing on Monday morning. If I knew what their prices would be in the next hour, day, or week, I’d be glad to relay that information. No one knows, but I’ll absolutely guarantee you that a year from now, they’ll be way up in dollar prices.