> The other I saw more recently about how car expenditures > were the single greatest financial drain on a household and if the average > household kept a car for 10-12 years instead of the average 4-5 and invested > the savings they'd be able to retire much earlier and better and so on. If > that chucklehead had invested the money he wasted on that truck maybe he > could afford to send that kid to college someday. > > Cya, > Robert > The "and so on" includes real home-buying power. But, then, the health of our economy depends on lots of people throwing their money away. Vern |
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