I have yet to come across this mythical super efficient, no-waste, reduced paperwork company everybody talks about.

I really do not think the “like being debt slaves”. Probably they have no other choice. If salaries increase, chances are they will get normal loans.

Yes, the price to pay to find out that the part was defective can be quite high.

But it can have its advantages. There is an understanding that they will be using OEM parts, with guaranty, they assume the liability (ignoring horror stories), they may have a loaner car for you to use, generally a more pleasant place to be, etc. Some dealerships are not even that much more expensive that independent…

Not only that. How in the world do they manage to screw up their numeric advantage AND the element of surprise.

Not only that. You can bet the dealership is going to sue the bail bonds company.

I have no idea how in the world Conor Daly finishing in 30th place made more money Montoya (5th) and Alonso (24th). Alonso lead quite a few laps, Daly was unceremoniously out before the second round of commercials.

Somewhere i read that 1/3 of the Indy field never won a race in any major open wheel series, another 1/3 never won a major championship.

You are right...in both cases.

The data you provide is not incorrect, and may be as accurate as much as exit polls can be. However it only uses data from 23 stated, and if you look closely, most of those are red states. On the blue states at the top of the chart, the income is reversed, with Democrats having higher income than Republicans. It would…

Aren’t we missing 1/2 of the states? Where is CA, WA and OR?

So if this is true, and they make $70K, what do they complain about those mining jobs?

You have a point there.

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There is a percentage of Republicans that have a lot of money, some percentage that are suburban-middle class, but the vast majority are poor.

Sure, if you expect every Porsche owner to “upgrade” for a Mustang.

“taxation is theft”…I guess it is only theft when taxes are used to fund social services?

I think you may be overestimating the number of BMW/Porsche/Merc/Audi/VW-loving Trump supporters out there. 

It cost VW $25 Billion and criminal charges for 550,000 cars. GM has 705,000 trucks with big engines. Mathematics say +$30 Billion, reality says no more than a billion while admitting no guilt. 2 - 3 low-level engineers may go to prison.

For the record, the soft gel coating on Ferrari’s from the late 90 - 00's have this issue too.