Found the dealer in question’s burner account! Seriously, your a dick if you agree with this. I sold cars for 23 years at a Ford store. I talked people out of buying a vehicle when the car they wanted (Expedition for example) was over $900 a month when their current few year old Expy was doing just fine.

Yeah, there’s no way a lay person can comprehend some contracts.

If I’m being cynical (and I usually am) the incentive is the opposite of teaching the recruits how to be financially literate. If they all finished their first service term with $60k in the bank and a ton of options for their path in life, there would be a lot fewer resigning for another term.

We could stop weakening the CFPB, for one.

I think people are good at forgetting that we tend not to have to spend our every waking hour going “am I being played” precisely because we have decent laws on the books that protect us from ourselves. For instance, I don’t have to look up and research every goddamned ingredient in every food I buy, or check that the…

It’s not just dealerships. There are entire industries whose basic business model is preying on people who lack sufficient financial literacy.

Bizarre take. Do you work at a dealer or something? Presumably slinging Altimas to single moms at a 29% APR with the intention to repossess them later.

Car Dealerships around military bases are the worst. Kids with signing bonus are walking targets for these scumbags. The number of BH/PH lots around Ft. Meade filled with E-class, 5 Series and way too many Range Rovers waiting for their 3rd owner tells me they aren’t beating into the recruits about actually listening…

Make it illegal for dealerships to do much of the sh*t they do.

No dislike here. The system is absolutely set up to allow people to take advantage of financial illiterates. Car salespeople specifically are trained to distract from the total price and only talk about payments, making damn sure not to mention that those payments will continue for the better part of a decade.

Is it extra if I want my sticker surrounded by other people’s swastika stickers?

I’ve spent a lot of time learning about personal finance and I’m naturally very frugal. That said, I’m less inclined than I used to be about financial-shaming people. The deck is usually stacked, there’s a power imbalance, and a car purchase is usually not a discretionary luxury purchase for most people. This comment…

Republican appointed judges love taking every possible opportunity to prove that they don’t have the the character and temperament to be judges.

Hey all of you readers and writers, I have a bumper on my car. I charge $4 million per sticker to allow you to advertise on my car. I see that you folks haven’t been advertising there and thus, have not paid me. So I’m going to have to sue all of you for that.

Even corruption is bigger in Texas.

Saw a clip from a Joe Rogan interview where Rogan and his guest were ridiculing “senile” Joe Biden for claiming that George Washington had led a charge to liberate U.S. airports from the British. When a staff person pointed out that the out-of-context YouTube clip they were playing actually showed Biden ridiculing Dona…

Fredrick Douglas, still out there doing great things!

I think the media is generally embarrassed to put quotes from Trump in their headlines for fear of looking like they are as stupid as he is.

Don’t forget that news media relentlessly hammered one candidate for their age, while barely mentioning the age of the other candidate, and now that the first candidate has dropped out, all talk of anyone being too old has completely vanished, even as the remaining oldster can barely speak a coherent sentence.

This election cycle has really shown a lot of contract between parties.