Things don’t look good for FCA in particular. The company recently killed off two mid-sized sedans—the Chrysler 200 and the Dodge Dart—and seem to be focusing on selling large trucks and SUVs.

It is the difference in the type of spending that is important. When you look at your personal finances you don’t treat the money you allocate for rent the same as the money you allocate for going out to eat. The principal is the same here. Medicare is treated as the rent payment because it has to happen and the…

The graph is misleading. Social Security and Medicare have a separate tax that goes only toward those items. Discretionary spending is what is really important when it comes to government budgets. Here is the graph for that.

Now you know why there is no money left for free education or healthcare.

So, no solution to healthcare yet?

Because consumers are sort of dumb and prone to buy from brand and model recognition than actual qualities of the said product.

**CLICKBAIT ALERT**Car that’s for sale everywhere outsells car that’s not. News at 11!

Oh, so you did it the right way.

It’s not the motion that puts kids to sleep. It’s the carbon monoxide.

Military aircraft don’t fly with live weapons on training flights over built up areas.

Seriously, Jalops, this is it. The moment of truth. We need to buy this car.

I can only imagine the number of douche canoes they get in there wanting to driver SRTs and Hellcats, only to buy a used Avenger because that’s all they can afford.

I was not allowed to test drive an SRT at the Dodge dealership I bought my R/T in. Ofcourse a dozen bad yelp reviews later, they did apologize.

They have demos there for test drives, that DB11 you see there is a demo. According to Decarie, if you seem ready to commit, they’ll have you test drive pretty much everything they have available there.

Don’t kid yourself - “win” to Mary Barra doesn’t mean “impress Jalopnik”. It means customers, sales volume and profitability.

I just drove it. GM definitely deserves some credit for making this vehicle less terrible.

David Tracy today:

Because people who don’t like Uber/self driving cars will spin this to be that they aren’t safe. Most of the general public just reads headlines and facebook/twitter commentary.

Why would this look bad for Uber if the other guy failed to yield & it’s his fault?

im more and more convinced that the entire armed service is just a front for an acronym service.