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re: Do Boomers Like Modern Cars?
Posted on 3/3/20 at 11:56 pm to TDcline
Posted on 3/3/20 at 11:56 pm to TDcline
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Yea that's real funny for people who paid into their most of their lives and are actually on it. Even then my mom had to be talked into taking hers with the very mentioning of that she had already paid for it for years and why left govt spend it elsewhere.
For anyone not on it let's talk about doing away with it I am for it. It should be especially easy for anyone in late 20's and below. They can responsibly put that same money aside however they want unlike boomers who were forced to pay into social security for around half a century.
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Posted on 3/3/20 at 11:59 pm to dallastigers
quote:fine. as long as i don't have to pay into it.
For anyone not on it let's talk about doing away with it I am for it.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:10 am to stelly1025
quote:Saw an ad last year for 8 year financing.
People who buy brand new cars and finance them for 7 years are stupid.
If you have the money to pay cash it may be better to invest it than to throw it all down. Earn 2% while paying 1% for example. Just keep liquid in case the market goes South on ya over the 7-8 years.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:14 am to Goldrush25
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Base models today have features that were considered luxury 20 years ago. Modern cars are great.
You can option up a Chevy with about everything you can get on a Caddy minus SuperCruise.
Luxury cars are becoming more badge than anything else.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:15 am to Horsemeat
Hasn't been a decent car made since the '53 studebaker.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:22 am to stelly1025
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People who buy brand new cars and finance them for 7 years are stupid.
It is stupid, but the minivan you got in the early 2000s for 20k now costs 30-40k. And sure it is nicer, but there's not an alternative. You can buy one used with 40k miles on it...still costs 27k at least. Vehicle prices have skyrocketed and they're just not worth the value.
Because of this I have never bought a brand new vehicle and I likely never will, yet it still sucks to have to pay over 30k for a quality used vehicle. Anything under 30k and you're not getting a warranty, or you're driving a simple car.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:27 am to Horsemeat
Like? They're OK. There are bad things and good things. If your water temp gauge goes out, You cant just replace that, you have to replace the entire instrument cluster and it's expensive. same with turn signal switch/cruise/wiper/dimmer control. All kind of electronic controls that screw up and give major problems sometimes.
To me, there was a perfect balance between old reliable technology/ New reliable technology, on vehicles built around 1990 Still using the great old engine designs, with throttle body fuel injection and dependable electronic ignition. They kept on making them more complicated and more expensive though. It's to the point that if you have a wiring problem, it can ruin the whole vehicle. I'm a truck driver, and I tell you, the number of really new cars, that I see burned up on the side of the road these days is sobering. There are a lot of them, It's something I worry about for my wife and kid.
To me, there was a perfect balance between old reliable technology/ New reliable technology, on vehicles built around 1990 Still using the great old engine designs, with throttle body fuel injection and dependable electronic ignition. They kept on making them more complicated and more expensive though. It's to the point that if you have a wiring problem, it can ruin the whole vehicle. I'm a truck driver, and I tell you, the number of really new cars, that I see burned up on the side of the road these days is sobering. There are a lot of them, It's something I worry about for my wife and kid.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:31 am to dallastigers
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Yea that's real funny for people who paid into their most of their lives and are actually on it. Even then my mom had to be talked into taking hers with the very mentioning of that she had already paid for it for years and why left govt spend it elsewhere.
For anyone not on it let's talk about doing away with it I am for it. It should be especially easy for anyone in late 20's and below. They can responsibly put that same money aside however they want unlike boomers who were forced to pay into social security for around half a century.
Yep. I’ve been paying into SS since I was 17yrs old. My full retirement age is 67. I will have paid into the system for 50 years at retirement age. Let’s say the average amount I paid in over the years is $500 per month. Obviously the more I make the higher the amount deducted but let’s just just a good round number.
50 years @ $500 per month = $300k
A guesstimate based off some online calculators show my potential SS benefit to be around $2800 per month.
It will take 9 years to reach what I put in.
I’m going to do my damnedest to live as long as possible just so I can stick it to you younger kids and collect some of the SS money you’re putting into it now.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:36 am to Horsemeat
I see more boomers in modern cars than millennials, excluding Prius and other doorstop cars.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 3:43 am to Horsemeat
quote:I'm 71 for reference.
Do Boomers Like Modern Cars?
Love love LOVE my 2019 Jeep Rubicon.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 3:50 am to TDcline
\ It is awful.
SS is not socialism.
Here is why Jr.
It ain't free money from you to me.
It's money from an account they set up for me/forced me into back when I registered 60 years ago.
Just give me my money back with interest and we'll call it even.
Some of you guys need to learn before writing.
You wouldn't look so ignorant if you did.
This post was edited on 3/4/20 at 3:52 am
Posted on 3/4/20 at 4:59 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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they last longer, are safer, and have more features.
Classics last if you take care of them. Safety is up to the driver. A car doesn’t need “features”. It needs POWER, handling, style...
Also stop believing the climate change bullshite; you’ll be happier
Posted on 3/4/20 at 5:04 am to Horsemeat
What’s funny is you mention boomers and modern cars, but the younger ones these days still can’t drive modern cars with a stick.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 5:11 am to Horsemeat
My dad, born in 1950, has a mid engine vet on order.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 5:16 am to Redbone
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Contrary to popular opinion, especially among seniors, Social Security is not a retirement program. No one “contributes” into a Social Security retirement fund, which then earns interest, and then is later available during one’s retirement years. Moreover, there are no individual lockboxes at Fort Knox with each person’s name on them containing his Social Security “contributions.”
Social Security is nothing more than a socialist program, no different from food stamps and public housing. It uses government to forcibly take money from people to whom it belongs and gives it to people to whom it does not belong. That’s classic socialism, in that it embodies the Marxian principle “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” Perhaps it’s worth pointing out that the idea of Social Security originated among German socialists in the latter part of the 1800s. That was when the Progressive movement was striving to move America in a socialist direction. That’s also why the Social Security Administration has a bust of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck on its website. Having acquired the idea of Social Security from German socialists, Bismarck was the German leader who enacted it into law in Germany. In the 1930s, the Democratic presidential regime of Franklin Roosevelt enacted Social Security into law in the United States. It’s worth noting that the American people had lived without this socialist program for some 150 years before Roosevelt imported it to America. Why don’t Republicans like to hear this sort of thing? Because they have convinced themselves that they are “capitalists” and that leftists are “socialists.” Obviously, the ardent support of Social Security on the part of the right doesn’t fit well within that scenario. Thus, conservatives would rather just play like it doesn’t exist.
This post was edited on 3/4/20 at 5:39 am
Posted on 3/4/20 at 5:18 am to Horsemeat
You’re a dumbass pacifier sucker. Boomers get the most out of their equipment. You couldn’t keep the thing running.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 5:25 am to ForeverEllisHugh
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Also we do need to get rid of social security but you’ve gotta pay the people who already paid in because it’s literally their money.
I'll take a check for the social security that I've been paying in since I was 14 with minimal interest so I can invest it into something that will actually make me money.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 5:26 am to Steadyhands
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Anything under 30k and you're not getting a warranty, or you're driving a simple car.
You can get certified used Lexus models for under $25k. No clue why the OT goes full retard about car prices. Basically your entire post is wrong
Posted on 3/4/20 at 5:37 am to stelly1025
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People who buy brand new cars and finance them for 7 years are stupid.
If you have to finance a car for 7 years. You can't afford that car.
Posted on 3/4/20 at 5:43 am to SavageOrangeJug
Since millennial's can't drive a stick it's getting hard for us X'ers to buy anything cool with a manual.
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