Do you actually know someone who drives a Hummer?

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Anonymous wrote:what kind of car can you buy for less than $500/month?

Are you asking seriously? Almost any car in the 10K-20K range will get you a payment under $500 per month. Of course, interest rate and down payment are factors,but there are many to choose from.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what kind of car can you buy for less than $500/month?

Are you asking seriously? Almost any car in the 10K-20K range will get you a payment under $500 per month. Of course, interest rate and down payment are factors,but there are many to choose from.

I was the poster that made the original $500/month payment on a Hummer post. I thought the same thing - I mean, really? Not everyone has to drive a $40K+ brand new vehicle. Even some luxury vehicles can be found pre-owned under $30K.

You have your own self to blame if you won't deign to discuss "cheaper" cars.

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One parent at my DC's preschool owns one and it definitely seems odd because they are a tiny little Vietnamese family. I've only seen the dad drive it, but still, it seems strange.

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I do and it completely made me think twice of her. Which is a shame I'm so judgmental about it because she's very nice.

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lol. I'm the one with the post about the republican friend who drives a hummer. My friends are split down the middle Rep/Dem. Most of them are perfectly nice people with rational views. It's just that the only people I know who very flagrantly don't give a rat's ass about the environment - they're all Republican. You don't have to lean left to care about the earth, but I think it is one of those traits that Dems get credited with more often. (like crazy government overspending and freaking out about guns and the death penalty.) I have other Republican friends who deliberately throw out their recyclables in the trash, despite having recycling bins and a neighborhood that provides pickup, because "recycling doesn't pay for itself." I told them that schools don't pay for themselves and the war in Iraq doesn't pay for itself, but they don't seem to have a problem funding that. Other friends use last year's big snowstorm as a reason why they don't believe in global warming, and they're Republican too. In general, my Dem friends don't drive gigantic cars, scoff at recycling or question global climate change.

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Anonymous wrote:lol. I'm the one with the post about the republican friend who drives a hummer. My friends are split down the middle Rep/Dem. Most of them are perfectly nice people with rational views. It's just that the only people I know who very flagrantly don't give a rat's ass about the environment - they're all Republican. You don't have to lean left to care about the earth, but I think it is one of those traits that Dems get credited with more often. (like crazy government overspending and freaking out about guns and the death penalty.) I have other Republican friends who deliberately throw out their recyclables in the trash, despite having recycling bins and a neighborhood that provides pickup, because "recycling doesn't pay for itself." I told them that schools don't pay for themselves and the war in Iraq doesn't pay for itself, but they don't seem to have a problem funding that. Other friends use last year's big snowstorm as a reason why they don't believe in global warming, and they're Republican too. In general, my Dem friends don't drive gigantic cars, scoff at recycling or question global climate change.

climate change is a moot point. how many coal plants are China and India building this year? it is much more of an engineering problem, in how to deal with any affects.

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Anonymous wrote:lol. I'm the one with the post about the republican friend who drives a hummer. My friends are split down the middle Rep/Dem. Most of them are perfectly nice people with rational views. It's just that the only people I know who very flagrantly don't give a rat's ass about the environment - they're all Republican. You don't have to lean left to care about the earth, but I think it is one of those traits that Dems get credited with more often. (like crazy government overspending and freaking out about guns and the death penalty.) I have other Republican friends who deliberately throw out their recyclables in the trash, despite having recycling bins and a neighborhood that provides pickup, because "recycling doesn't pay for itself." I told them that schools don't pay for themselves and the war in Iraq doesn't pay for itself, but they don't seem to have a problem funding that. Other friends use last year's big snowstorm as a reason why they don't believe in global warming, and they're Republican too. In general, my Dem friends don't drive gigantic cars, scoff at recycling or question global climate change.

You are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Ex-boyfriend, small penis, serial cheater.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what kind of car can you buy for less than $500/month?

Are you asking seriously? Almost any car in the 10K-20K range will get you a payment under $500 per month. Of course, interest rate and down payment are factors,but there are many to choose from.

I was the poster that made the original $500/month payment on a Hummer post. I thought the same thing - I mean, really? Not everyone has to drive a $40K+ brand new vehicle. Even some luxury vehicles can be found pre-owned under $30K.

You have your own self to blame if you won't deign to discuss "cheaper" cars.

Ha, yes. I question the intelligence of anyone who sinks that much into a depreciating asset.

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i thought my car payment was $550/month, and my car was a POS. Maybe it was a high interest rate ...

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OMG!!! I drive one. What's the fuss all about?

[Anonymous]

15:42 - really?????
take a drive thru New York and New Jersey and I guarantee that all the hummer drivers are fucking dems,

You are an ignorant little fuck if you think republicans don't care about the environment!
My whole family is republican - me, DH, inlaws, my parents, my siblings - and we were recycling BEFORE it was cool to be green. We were composting BEFORE it was cool to do so, WE ARE ORGANIC OUR WHOLE LIVES....

reality check honey...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and I can't for the life of me figure out why someone who lives in the exurbs, far away from things, would want to drive a giant car that gets really low gas mileage. Seems foolish. She's very Republican and I suspect it's kind of an f-you to environmental types who worry about things like global warming.

I also used to work with a guy who drove one. I'm pretty sure in his case it was a small p*nis car. I couldn't stand him anyway and the hummer was the final argument in my (mental) case against him.

Even dumber are people who own them that live in the city - trying to park on the street or in parking garages with narrow spaces, and squeezing them down narrow streets. Idiots.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG!!! I drive one. What's the fuss all about?

Nothing. Just as there's nothing wrong with buying a Pet Rock, or a Chia Pet shaped like Barack Obama. It's your money; you're an adult. You should get to decide how you'll be soon parted from it. At least it's not a 72" 3-D television. Those folks make Hummer-buyers look like rational, self-actualized human beings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15:42 - really?????
take a drive thru New York and New Jersey and I guarantee that all the hummer drivers are fucking dems,

You are an ignorant little fuck if you think republicans don't care about the environment!
My whole family is republican - me, DH, inlaws, my parents, my siblings - and we were recycling BEFORE it was cool to be green. We were composting BEFORE it was cool to do so, WE ARE ORGANIC OUR WHOLE LIVES....

reality check honey...

That's awesome! Good for you. Now, if you'd stop electing public officials who do everything they can to undermine your personal virtues (as Dick Cheney called it) we might get somewhere. You're a bit like Christine Whitman who took the EPA job under Bush, only to be given the grave responsibility of showing up at monthly meetings and told to shut her fucking liberal mouth. Classic stuff. Keep on separating your paper from plastic though.